![]() They gathered into the MAV and blasted off into space. The rest of the crew, reading on their computers that Watney’s vital signs were zeroed out, assumed he was dead. During the sandstorm, a shard of antenna flew backward and hit Watney, poking a hole in his suit. ![]() But Watney doesn’t blame the crew for doing so they thought, with reason, that he was dead. He remembers there was a sandstorm, and the crew left without him. On Sol 6, Watney awakes to find that the MAV, and all the Ares crew, are no longer on the planet with him. Ares astronauts then use a “Mars descent vehicle” (MDV) and “Mars ascent vehicle” (MAV) to travel between Mars itself and the orbiting Hermes, still in space. The Ares missions, for example, use a booster called Hermes to carry astronauts from Earth to Mars Hermes is powered by “ion engines,” a futuristic technology providing thrust with minimal energy use. ![]() ![]() The first two Ares missions have been successful, and the US space program is highly advanced. It’s the sixth day (Sol 6) of their mission on the Red Planet, to which they’ve been traveling together for years. The novel begins with American astronaut Mark Watney trapped on the surface of Mars, without the crew of the Ares 3. ![]()
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