Once the camera moved to YES, Mark too gets the confirmation that NASA can see him and knows he is alive. Given that the only way they can communicate is by moving the pathfinders camera, Mark sets up the initial question as a YES or NO. Seeing this NASA quickly prepare to receive the communication from Mark and they do. A quick calculation reveals that Mark is on his way to fetch an old pathfinder probe from an earlier mission in 1997. One of the days NASA notice that Mark is traveling in a new direction. This confirms to them that since the movements at Hab are not random, it has to be Mark.Ĥ) How does NASA establish contact with Mark for the first time using the camera?īased on the rover movements, NASA understands that Mark is planning to travel to the Aries IV site where the next mission is going to be. Eg: the solar panels are cleaned up and the rover is moving around. NASA uses the daily imaging of the Hab site of Mars and notice that things are being moved around in a specific pattern. 3) How does NASA realize Mark is still alive? Water is a byproduct created when fuel is burnt in a controlled environment. He uses the fuel from the “landing pod” they used to get to Mars for the Aries III project. Apart from the fertilizer, he needs water to grow stuff. Potatoes are the easiest to grow and harvest and also serves as a great source of carbohydrates. This acts as the fertilizer and makes the soil capable of growing crops. He uses the soil of Mars in the Hab and adds his own shit to it. Mark is on an artificial habitat called the Hab. This keeps the pressure and oxygen from getting instantly depleted from his suit. The stab doesn’t destroy his suit, it keeps the opening sealed. Mark gets stabbed through the comm device and that causes him to lose communication with his crew. After this they hear nothing on Marks comm. Mark gets bashed in the face by the large device flying in the storm. The story is interesting and not heavy and one sided.ġ) Why did the crew think Mark was dead? How did he survive? While you should catch it in the big screen, there is nothing new you are going to be offered in the visual section. Should you watch the film? Well, after Gravity, a lot of the films have started representing action sequences in space in a similar fashion. Till the next mission’s landing in Mars, Mark has to find a way to keep alive and get a message across that he’s planning on being at the site of the next mission. The film flows smoothly enough to bring all the characters into a crisp climax, scientifically questionable, but crisp. The distance to Mars from Earth is 4 years and their original stay was planned for 31 days. Mark is a botanist in the team and therefore works a way to try and grow his own food stock in a simulated earth-like environment. The ground staff figure out that Mark is still alive but have no way of informing him that they know. Since Sean Bean is a ground staff in this one, he doesn’t die. The ground staff that brings attempts to save Mark includes the Director of NASA played by Jeff Daniels (Teddy), the Director of media relations for NASA played by Kristen Wiig (Annie) and our favourite mission director played by Sean Bean (Mitch). There are plenty of characters that come to his rescue, like all of America. Unlike in Castaway, Matt Damon doesn’t have to carry the whole film independently.
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