Mapping The Martian

In the novel 'The Martian' NASA astronaut Mark Watney is abandoned past times the residue of his crew on Mars. In lodge to hold out Watney has to motility a Mars rover 2,000 miles across the planet to Schiaparelli Crater where he has a adventure of beingness picked upward past times about other NASA mission.

Last year Andy Weir's The Martian Map was the kickoff Google Map to rail together with plot a novel assail Mars. The map plots the course of written report of Watney's journeying to Schiaparelli Crater together with marks the locations of about of the incidents he encounters along the way.

In anticipation of the unloose of 20th Century Fox's cinema of Andy Weir's novel Bing has instantly got inwards on the act. Bing Watney Home equally good allows you lot 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 means to Schiaparelli Crater.

The orangish map markers exhibit the locations of Watney's transmissions. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 countdown clock shows you lot how long you lot bring to expect until the side past times side transmission together with the xanthous dots on the map render data on about of the points of involvement along Watney's path across Mars.