The Martian By Mark Watney Theme

~Space travel has been around for a long time. Since old times and there is no precise date in which the thought was begun. A space traveler, stranded, alone. His survival is all up to hardware and materials that are made for six individuals and in also his knowledge and his designing and what he has learned and remembered in his background knowledge of space travel and Mars. In the movie “The Martian,” the movie starts out with Mark Watney and his team of the Ares III crew mission to Mars is exploring the Acidalia Planitia on Martian solar day sol- One solar day on Mars is about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day,18 of their 31-sol expedition- an unexpectedly strong dust storm threatens to make their Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), which forces …show more content…
In “The Martian”, botanist Mark Watney is stranded on Mars, separated from everyone and everything he loves. It's a life filled with danger, disaster, and panic, but then loneliness is the thing that gets under his skin the most. He tries to make a conversation with the blogger every Sol. Sometimes the loneliness can make him feel a little crazy or even scared. Stranded on Mars without any hope of rescue, Watney is stuck in his own personal horror movie, forced to face the constant possibility of a catastrophic equipment failure or sudden disaster. Although fear can mess with mark's head at times, he learns that the best way to fight back is simply by moving forward and facing his fear head to head. Still, he has to know that he's fighting a losing battle. After getting stranded on the planet after a failed space mission, Mark is forced to battle the harsh Martian environment as he scrambles to figure out how to get back home. Hey faces ferocious dust-storms, biting cold, and treacherous landscapes, to name a few. Thankfully, Mark has one goal and it is to make it out in one piece and alive. …show more content…
In real life, astronauts are not going to Mars anytime soon. America doesn’t have a spacecraft to get the astronauts there yet, and also, they first have to build a habitat to keep them alive while they are there. “But if and when they do go to Mars, it’s probably going to look a lot like you’ll see in The Martian”.“To the level of detail that you see in the film and in the book." Mars is so distant that it takes 15 to 20 minutes for a message sent from Earth to make it to there. That is because a communication signal like a radio wave travels at the speed of light, and nothing can travel faster: Mars is about 140 million miles away from Earth, and the speed of light is about 671 million mph. In the movie, Watney has no way to communicate with NASA, so he finds and digs up Pathfinder — a spacecraft NASA really launched to Mars back in the 1990s. After a little hacking, he uses the robot to communicate with NASA using a replica back on Earth. A real-life Pathfinder replica would need to be "turned on and dusted