The workshop will review areas that have multiple Regions of Interests (ROI) within the 100 kilometer EZ. With current mission concepts, any potential human landing site may be limited to a 100-kilometer area. Any potential landing site will center around an Exploration Zone (EZ). Workshop attendees will discuss potential locations where humans could land, live and work on the martian surface. Later this month, a workshop will be held in Houston to consider landing areas for the first human mission to Mars. In the past, it helped select landing sites for NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover and other robotic missions. One of HiRISE’s tasks is helping select potential landing sites for NASA missions. HiRISE could spot a real life ‘The Martian’ landing site Plus, the dust covers the bedrock, making any scientific observations difficult. NASA can’t have them experiencing wild temperature swings throughout a lengthy mission. Careful temperature regulation is vital for the success of Mars’ rovers. It has a low thermal inertia which means it gets warmer in the daytime and colder at night. NASA’s Mars rovers tend to avoid these regions for a couple of reasons. The dust layer is believed to be at least a meter thick because you can’t see any boulders. The next image shows the region between Ares 3 and Ares 4.Īccording to the HiRISE website, this area is flat and is covered in Martian dust. According to this HiRISE post, if Mark Watney were laying flat on the surface of Mars, he would be just six pixels tall in the image above. The bluish areas in this HiRISE photo would appear gray or slightly reddish to anyone on Mars’ surface. Here’s an image showing the exact spot where the Ares 3 habitat is in the book.
If the boulders don’t give you problems, fissures with steep rocky slopes will. A good portion of this region is covered by fields of boulders measuring up to 10 feet high or more. In reality, Acidalia Planitia would be a nightmare to drive over. Here’s what southern Acidalia Planitia looks like courtesy of the HiRISE instrument aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. In the book, Andy Weir describes Acidalia as flat and easy to traverse. Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) spends most of the time in the movie at the Ares 3 site in southern Acidalia Planitia. It’s nothing that wasn’t shown in the trailers, though. There are some spoilers here if you haven’t seen the movie yet.
But, ‘The Martian’ used actual real regions on Mars for the film’s landing sites.
Hollywood takes liberties with everything.
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