New Mapping The Martian
January 16, 2019
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In the novel 'The Martian' NASA astronaut Mark Watney is abandoned yesteryear the residual of his crew on Mars. In club to live Watney has to sweat a Mars rover 2,000 miles across the planet to Schiaparelli Crater where he has a peril of beingness picked upwardly yesteryear around other NASA mission.
Last year Andy Weir's The Martian Map was the commencement Google Map to rail as well as plot a novel onslaught Mars. The map plots the course of written report of Watney's journeying to Schiaparelli Crater as well as marks the locations of around of the incidents he encounters along the way.
In anticipation of the loose of 20th Century Fox's cinema of Andy Weir's novel Bing has instantly got inwards on the act. Bing Watney Home too allows y'all to rail Watney’s journeying on a map of Mars. The map is next Watney's journeying inwards 'real time' as well as a novel transmission is beingness added to the map every day, every minute Watney attempts to navigate his agency to Schiaparelli Crater.
The orangish map markers demonstrate the locations of Watney's transmissions. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 countdown clock shows y'all how long y'all convey to await until the side yesteryear side transmission as well as the yellowish dots on the map render data on around of the points of involvement along Watney's path across Mars.