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Saturday, July 3, 2021

Mapping The Martian


In the novel 'The Martian' NASA astronaut Mark Watney is abandoned past times the remainder of his crew on Mars. In fellowship to live on Watney has to movement a Mars rover 2,000 miles across the planet to Schiaparelli Crater where he has a conduct chances of beingness picked upwards past times unopen to other NASA mission.

Last year Andy Weir's The Martian Map was the start Google Map to rail together with plot a novel assault Mars. The map plots the class of Watney's journeying to Schiaparelli Crater together with marks the locations of unopen to of the incidents he encounters along the way.

In anticipation of the unloosen of 20th Century Fox's cinema of Andy Weir's novel Bing has right away got inwards on the act. Bing Watney Home too allows yous to rail Watney’s journeying on a map of Mars. The map is next Watney's journeying inwards 'real time' together with a novel transmission is beingness added to the map every day, equally Watney attempts to navigate his agency to Schiaparelli Crater.

The orangish map markers demo the locations of Watney's transmissions. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 countdown clock shows yous how long yous accept to human face until the side past times side transmission together with the yellowish dots on the map render data on unopen to of the points of involvement along Watney's path across Mars.