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    The final assigned film “The Martian”, was a thrilling Hollywood movie in which fellow astronauts leave astronaut Mark Watney stranded on Mars after a terrible storm leaves them no choice but to flee the planet in a rush. While they believed that Watney was dead, he was actually fighting to figure out how to survive alone on the Martian planet. Many of the events in this movie, I believe have factual potential. However, there were a few events that occurred and made me question whether or not they

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    of The Martian, wrote the book with intentions of helping to visualize what it would be like to be stranded on Mars. Weir does a good job visualizing life on mars with his knowledge of software engineering, physics, mechanics, and spaceflight. Weir did a good job of using his knowledge of science to illustrate the hardships the survivor, Mark Watney, went through to survive on Mars. Weir’s character and writing style is really shown through this book and though the main character Mark Watney.

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    Timothy’s character as well as the short story’s narration, setting and themes. The story unfolds on the planet Mars. It is October in year 2026, yet it is summer on Mars. The planet is covered in crumbling cities, canals and multicolored deserts. The family visits in the wake of a great war that eradicated all human and extraterrestrial life there. Because of the barren atmosphere on Mars, there is a strained feeling in the family. They talk in whispers when walking through the abandoned cities (p

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    The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury is a compilation of short stories that tell the story of humans moving to, colonizing, and leaving their mark on Mars and the struggles they face along the way. The complex characters and attention to detail make this book a good read, but the social and political concepts suggested in the stories force the reader to think beyond what it written on the page. This work has been widely talked about for decades, and it isn’t hard to see why. The Martian Chronicles

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    Imagine being trapped on an uncharted planet millions of miles away from your home with limited food and water supply. This became the state of life for astronaut, Mark Watney, in the 2015 film The Martian. Throughout the film director Ridley Scott, displays what life might be like for a human being to live in complete interplanetary isolation. It seems unfathomable that one could survive under such circumstances. Humans are one of the most diverse species with extremely well-wired brains. It is

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    was spotted off the coast of western Australia. And it may lead to new clues concerning aliens on Earth. It is possible scientists know more about Mars than the deepest depths of our planet’s oceans. Recent NASA findings about water gullies on Mars and massive ocean vortexes are also keeping scientists guessing. Large alien whale carcass came from Mars spacecraft hidden beneath our planet’s oceans YouTube channel UFOvni2012 posted the photos of the frightening alien whale. It appeared to be bloated

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    conducted following the failure to find life on Mars in the Viking Lander experiment, by NASA Space Center’s very own Dr. McKay and a team of scientists. They wanted to know if there was life on Mars that wasn’t found in the Viking Lander experiment so they were looking to find life in places other than soil. Sources about possible ancient martian life is in the SNC (Shergotty-Nakhla-Chassigny) class of meteorites that came to Earth following impact events on Mars. (McKay et al 1996) ALH84001 is recognized

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    Watney is abandoned on Mars after a failed mission. However, isolation in space is not the most dangerous threat for astronauts. Many other astronauts have dealt with terrorizations from space debris, leaky suits, and launches and re-launches. Though The Martian does have a successful ending, many other space flights have not been as successful. The Martian is the story of an astronaut named Mark Watney who is part of a crew that is the third team of astronauts to go to Mars. Watney is a botanist

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    The American actor, screenwriter and producer Matt Damon, becomes The Martian in the hyper-realistic sci-fi space drama of director Ridley Scott, which follows a team of astronauts on a mission to Mars. Matt Damon and his team of astronauts struggles, when a wind storm hits the Red Planet and threatens their lives, but the NASA team - actress Jessica Chastain, actor and musician - Michael Peña, Norwegian actor and screenwriter - Aksel Hennie, American actress - Kate Mara, and Sebastian Stan flee

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    things in our solar system looked like. Curiosity was sent to Mars to see if there were life, the Apollo Program was made to explore the Moon, then the Explorer 1 was sent to measure the radiation environment of Earth’s Orbit. In these paragraphs I will be talking about the mission. the goals of that mission, details about that mission, and the spinoffs. What does live on Mars? There are scientists that sent the space probe Curiosity to Mars. Curiosity launched on November

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