Question: Scenario: In The Film The Martian, Astronaut Mark Watney (played By Matt Damon) Is Stranded On Mars For ~18 Months. Watney Creatively Uses Available Resources To Survive The Harsh Conditions On Mars, Including Devising A Method For Generating Water From Rocket Fuel And Formulating Special Fertilizer In Order To Grow Potatoes. Astronaut Watney Spent …
Question: Scenario: In The Film The Martian, Astronaut Mark Watney (played By Matt Damon) Is Stranded On Mars For ~18 Months. Watney Creatively Uses Available Resources To Survive The Harsh Conditions On Mars, Including Devising A Method For Generating Water From Rocket Fuel And Formulating Special Fertilizer In Order To Grow Potatoes. Astronaut Watney Spent …
Scenario: In the film The Martian,astronaut Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) is stranded on Marsfor ~18 months. Watney creatively uses available resources tosurvive the harsh conditions on Mars, including devising a methodfor generating water from rocket fuel and formulating specialfertilizer in order to grow potatoes. Astronaut Watney spent wellover two years in a reduced gravity environment (including his stayon Mars and the commute to/from Mars).
Questions:
- How do you think his skeletal system was affected during hisspace mission? Why?
- What things could Watney have done to prevent or minimizechanges to the skeleton caused by prolonged time in a reducedgravity environment? How would those things help?
