NASA announced the real picture of the landfall in the movie about Mars

NASA spacecraft astronomical camera reveals details of astronaut landing areas in the real-life movie "The Martian".

The real landing place of The Martian movie

In May 2015, images from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) show the actual landing locations on Mars described in the new blockbuster movie of Hollywood "The Martian - People from Mars".

Realistic landing site of Ares 3 mission in "The Martian".(Photo: NASA).

According to NASA, the film uses a real position on Mars as a landing site for Ares 3 and Ares 4 missions . The landing area of ​​the Ares 3 mission lies on the Mars Plains Acidalia Planitia . The Ares 4 mission base is located in the middle of the Schiaparelli crater .

In the movie "The Martian" , astronaut Mark Watney is trapped and spends most of his time in the Acidalia Planitia plain, south of Mars. The terrain is very diverse and dangerous, with the land with countless rocks several meters high, as well as the rift and steep rocky slopes, making it difficult to drive.

Astronaut Mark Watney must move from Ares 3 area to Ares 4. There is a means to take off Mars Ascent Vehicle to help him fly into Mars orbit, return to the spaceship and return home. The actual image shows that the landing of the Ares 4 mission is a flat area, covered by Mars at least one meter thick.

The landing place for the Ares 4 mission in the movie "The Martian" is taken from the real HiRISE camera.(Photo: NASA).

The probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took more than 39,000 photos in 2006. Each photo of the HiRISE camera covers an area of ​​several kilometers ² . It provides important information, used to select the landing site for Mars probe robots named Curiosity and many other future missions.