Modern astronauts stay in the safe confines of Earth’s magnetosphere, while the Apollo astronauts spent just a few days at the Moon.īut on Mars, each Ares crew was spending up to a month on the surface in the movie. Spending any prolonged amount of time in space, we’re talking months or years, runs an increased risk of developing a radiation-related sickness, such as cancer. “We actually have experiments going on right now using simulated Mars soil, and it indicates that’s a very realistic idea.” “In terms of basic mineral content and chemical content, yes it would be possible to grow plants in Martian soil,” said Lavery.
But would Martian soil actually be of any use? Isn’t it sterile and dead? In the movie, after becoming stranded on the surface, Watney resorts to using a combination of his own excrement, water, and Martian soil to grow potatoes. “This is not just a story, the author has done real computations,” Rudi Schmidt, ESA Project Manager for Mars Express and also a consultant on the film, told IFLScience.įuture manned Mars missions will use a constantly orbiting spacecraft akin to Hermes (shown). While some science fiction films have the characters whizzing from point to point, "The Martian" reveals the brutal reality of spaceflight: It would take about eight months to get to or from Mars with current technology. Perhaps one of the best factual aspects of the film is the accuracy of the travel time between Earth and Mars. But hey, we’re not letting him get off scot-free. To be fair, Andy Weir readily admits the dust storm was used simply to move the plot along and leave Mark Watney stranded on Mars. It’s not going to have the sort of energy to move large objects the way that is portrayed in the book and the film.” “But a 100 mph wind on Mars, because the atmosphere is so thin, has the same inertia and dynamic pressure down at the surface as about an 11 mph (18 km/h) wind on Earth. “Dust storms certainly do occur on Mars, they get winds in excess of 100 mph (160 km/h),” Dave Lavery, Program Executive for Solar System Exploration at NASA headquarters and a consultant for the film, told IFLScience. But hey, at least it's out of the way nice and early. This is probably the least scientific part of the movie. Although Mars does get dust storms, the atmospheric pressure is so low that the wind is negligible, although the dust itself can be harmful.
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Let’s get the big one out of the way nice and early: The dust storm that sets everything in motion at the start of the movie is not accurate. So if you haven’t read the book or seen the movie yet, continue at your own peril. But just how did they do? Here we pick through the science in the movie, with the help of a few experts, to see if "The Martian" is deserving of its accolades.īe warned, though, there are some spoilers in this post. We’ve seen the movie, and we’ve got to say, it’s amazing how far we’ve come since "Armageddon" (shudder). NASA has been so impressed, they've been using the movie as a marketing campaign for their own, actual manned missions to Mars in the 2030s.īased on the book of the same name by Andy Weir, itself praised for its accuracy, director Ridley Scott asked NASA to check the film and ensure everything in it was correct – or as correct as can be. Click on the box art images for details if it has one or sort from the filter movies option."The Martian" is hitting cinemas right about now, and already it is being heralded as one of the most scientifically accurate sci-fi films of all time.
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