The Martian

Newton's three laws of motion are involved in Watney's final launch in The Martian. The third law explains the equal and opposite reaction of the fuel ignition. The second law describes how the...

In "The Martian," the Iris probe, intended to deliver essential food supplies to Watney on Mars, fails catastrophically. The failure occurs because NASA administrator Teddy neglects to conduct...

In The Martian, Mark Watney was on Mars for 549 sols. That means he was there for 564 days, or approximately a year and a half.

The Hab, short for "The Mars Lander Habitat," is the living quarters on Mars for the Ares III mission. Designed to accommodate six astronauts for 31 sols, it is stocked with supplies from prior...

The NASA administrator and the person who sent the plans for the second option to the crew of the Hermes were correct because both men were trying to do the greatest amount of good.

In The Martian, "sol" means a solar day on Mars, which lasts 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds. Watney constructs solar panels to adhere to Martian time, while Mindy Park, a NASA employee,...

The Martian ends with Mark Watney being safely back aboard Hermes with the Ares III crew, heading back to Earth.

Observation and deduction helped Mark Watney figure out he had entered the dust storm because he was able to observe how his power charge rates were changing.

While answers to this question will be subjective, some viewers might feel that many of the first-person narrative sequences from the book The Martian would have been great to include in the movie.

Mark moves to the Schiaparelli crater as part of his long-term survival plan to escape Mars. The crater is the site of a future Martian mission, where a Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) is already...

To minimize the chance of a catastrophic failure of the Hab, Watney could have performed more thorough inspections of the structure and alternated between using the three different entrances to...