Mars is more of a reddish-orange, "but Ridley loved the orange" color for the suit, Yates said. (An earlier gray-white suit design didn't look as good.) So the final product has a lot of flame ...

Just how scientifically accurate is Ridley Scott's adaptation of The Martian? As it turns out, it's pretty darn accurate!

The creature’s spindly limbs suit Mars’s low gravity; its glass-like shield blocks ultraviolet radiation. The art was a paean to the Martian imaginings of Sagan’s youth. In 1996, shortly ...