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Jun 7, 2015 · The Martian promo: Matt Damon says goodbye to Earth. By. Christopher Rosen. Published on June 7, 2015 12:00PM EDT. Photo: Fox. Forget trailers: On Sunday, with the help of former NASA...
Jun 7, 2015 · Matt Damon stars in the promo for Ridley Scott's sci-fi thriller, 'The Martian.'
Jun 7, 2015 · The movie's first promo, out today, gives an inside look at the crew and their camaraderie—Damon hosts an farewell video in which each of the astronauts says goodbye to their home planet...
Sep 30, 2015 · Matt Damon stars as Mark Watney, part of a team of astronauts on a manned mission to Mars. His team is forced off the planet by a sudden windstorm, during which a detached satellite dish knocks...
- The Landscape
- The Storm
- Space Farming
- Water Recovery
- Habitats
- Space Suits
- Mental Health
Dr. Osterloo gave Scott’s landscape an A+. “The way they laid out the terrain looks really believable,” she told Inverse. “Mars is probably going to have rocky outcrops, like they show — rugged, with a lot of gusts and sands. And I think they got the colors pretty accurate.” Damon’s Mark Watley appears to land in the relatively flat, equatorial reg...
Osterloo isn’t as sure about the huge sandstorm that brings down Watley’s mission. She admits that atmospheric research isn’t her realm of expertise, but she questions what sort of “low-atmopsheric processes” could turn sand grains into projectiles. “I generally don’t think of Mars as having hurricane-force sorts of winds, especially where they lan...
“I am the greatest botanist on this planet,” Watley announces, overlooking his mini-field of potatoes grown in Martian soil. It’s pretty impressive, says Osterloo, considering that the planet’s soil is probably too acidic and devoid of organics to be useful for farming. If we’re ever going to pull off long-term missions to Mars, we’re going to need...
There isn’t much a potato farmer can do with Mars’ meager supply of polar ice, especially when he’s stuck at the equator, so Watley resorts to recycling his sweat and urine into useable H2O using a painfully slow water reclaimer. While there is evidence for liquid water flowsin Martian mountain ranges, says Osterloo, you’d have to dig deep to get t...
In his interview with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, Dr. Green discusses bringing Scott out to the Johnson Space Center to look at the habitats that the space agency has been developing. Scott no doubt took inspiration from NASA’s HERA, or Human Exploration Research Analog — a two-story self-contained habitat complete with living quarters, hygiene modu...
Watley’s space suit, a surprisingly sleek-looking thing, was inspired by NASA’s Z-2 and eXploration prototypes, designed to be flexible and comfortable as well as protective against the red planet’s harsh climate and dusty wind. According to Scott, Watley’s suit is heavy enoughto make up for the lower gravitational pull on Mars.
The best part of The Martian will be the joy of rooting for Matt Damon, Hollywood’s favorite stranded space hero, as he attempts to keep his own spirits high with dorky science quips (“In your face, Neil Armstrong!”) and fleeting contacts with Earth. But it isn’t really clear whether even a trained astronaut would survive, physically or psychologic...
Jun 8, 2015 · Watch Matt Damon leave Earth (forever?) in 'The Martian' Of all the (many) attempts that have been made in literature to tell the story of our future missions to Mars, none have been quite...
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Nov 26, 2022 · Ridley Scott encapsulates this exact feeling in his 2015 science-fiction thriller "The Martian," in which a lone astronaut stranded on Mars must rely on his scientific ingenuity to make it back...
