Closer to the ending of the movie, when Mark Watney cuts a hole in his EVA suit to rendezvous with the Hermes, we see him spiraling wildly out of control before
We all know how the MAV in The Martian was used by Ares crews to get off the planet but the film does not explain how they got on to it, is part of the HAB a de
In the amazing film, "The Martian", there is a montage sequence where everyone is figuring out how to get the Hermes resupplied for it's rescue mission of Space
Mark Watney was able to hack Mars Pathfinder and set up a kind of chat application to communicate with Earth. But AFAIK there is communication delay about 30 m
I haven't read the novel yet but according to the online sources, the events in The Martian take place in 2035 in the novel. I've watched the movie for about 7-
Part of the story-line for the Martian involves Watney salvaging parts from "Rover 1": But the movie doesn't really touch on what happened to Rover 1, perhap
When Mark Watney learns and talks about the plan for the MAV at some point he uses the word "lunacy" to describe it. Was the word "Lunacy" which is originated f
It would've cost over $1 billion of taxpayer money to realistically get Watney home. Probably more with all the mistakes they made in the process. Yet the publi
In The Martian, I understand that all the bacteria would have died after getting exposed to Mars' atmosphere with sub zero temperature, but Mark's poop will alw
The Hermes orbit calculations in The Martian were so complicated that Rich Purnell had to use some servers at the first place to complete them but when they wer
At the beginning of "The Martian", did the commander see Mark before she was getting into the ship?
I didn't see an explanation in the movie. How many days pass on Earth when one SOL passes on Mars? I heard a reference of two months passing, but I thought onl
I've watched The Martian and I've read the book, yet I still don't understand one thing. If he ran out of horizontal space for crops, why didn't Mark Watney st
Why would Watney write his name after he wrote a communication? When Watney was asking how the launch to get him supplies he writes this below: Being that
I watched The Martian (2015) not long ago and it has finally dawned on me why it looked a bit weird: When Mark was stranded on Mars because of a dust storm, ba
After blowing up the airlock to slow down sufficiently to rescue Mark at the end of The Martian, how did the crew make it back to Earth with the change in veloc
In the beginning of The Martian, the first MAV can reach orbiting Hermes just fine with 5 passengers on board. Yet towards the end of the movie, we are shown th
In the movie The Martian, why does Mark Watney lose so much weight as to literally start eating himself by Sol 561 when, according to Vincent, he has enough pot
In the movie The Martian, why does Mark Watney say he hasn't had a shower after reuniting with the Hermes crew when he's shown to actually come out of the showe
In The Martian, why does Mark have to move to the Schiaparelli Crater? How does he get there, and what is the problem with that?