'The Martian' Locales on Mars Revealed in NASA Spacecraft Photos, Newly appear photos taken by a NASA aircraft accommodate a real-world attending at the Red Planet locales breadth abundant of the activity takes abode in the sci-fi ballsy "The Martian."
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has photographed a apparent alleged Acidalia Planitia and the southwest bend of the 285-mile-wide (460 kilometers) Schiaparelli Crater, the landing sites of the Ares 3 and Ares 4 missions, respectively, in the "The Martian."
"The Martian," which hit theaters beyond the United States on Friday (Oct. 2), stars Matt Damon as NASA astronaut Mark Watney, who gets abandoned on the Red Planet afterwards a able dust storm. Watney have to use his engineering ability to break animate by himself on Mars and get in blow with mission control, which thinks he is dead.
The Ares 3 aggregation consists of Watney and 5 added astronauts. They blow down in Acidalia Planitia, a all-inclusive amplitude in the arctic mid-latitudes of Mars.
"For the story's axial appearance [Watney], Acidalia Planitia is aural active ambit from breadth NASA's Mars Pathfinder, with its Sojourner rover, landed in 1997," NASA admiral wrote Monday (Oct. 5) in a description of the anew appear angel of the area.
Semi-spoiler alert: The adjacency to Pathfinder is a key artifice point in the movie, and in the atypical by Andy Weir on which the blur is based.
"The Martian," which hit theaters beyond the United States on Friday (Oct. 2), stars Matt Damon as NASA astronaut Mark Watney, who gets abandoned on the Red Planet afterwards a able dust storm. Watney have to use his engineering ability to break animate by himself on Mars and get in blow with mission control, which thinks he is dead.
The Ares 3 aggregation consists of Watney and 5 added astronauts. They blow down in Acidalia Planitia, a all-inclusive amplitude in the arctic mid-latitudes of Mars.
"For the story's axial appearance [Watney], Acidalia Planitia is aural active ambit from breadth NASA's Mars Pathfinder, with its Sojourner rover, landed in 1997," NASA admiral wrote Monday (Oct. 5) in a description of the anew appear angel of the area.
Semi-spoiler alert: The adjacency to Pathfinder is a key artifice point in the movie, and in the atypical by Andy Weir on which the blur is based.
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