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[Video] Movie 'The Martian' Actual Background...A Crater on Mars With a Diameter Equivalent to the Distance Between Seoul and Busan 화성의 충돌구 '아레스 밸리스'가 실제 영화 '마션'의 배경이다. The Martian impact crater, Ares Vallis, is the actual background of the movie 'The Martian'. 최근 온라인 커뮤니티에는 영화 '마션'의 실제 배경인 아레스 밸리스에 대한 정보가 올라왔다. Recently, information about Ares Vallis, the actual background of the movie 'The Martian', has been shared on an online community. 공개된 사진에는 영화 '마션'에서 주인공이 거주했던 거처가 실제 아레스 밸리스의 모습과 비슷하다는 주장이 나왔다. In the released photos, it is claimed that the residence where the main character lived in the movie 'The Martian' resembles the actual appearance of Ares Vallis. 아레스 밸리스는 미국 항공우주국(NASA)이 1997년 7월 발사한 무인 우주탐사선 '마스 패스파인더'가 처음 발견했다. Ares Vallis was first discovered by NASA's Mars Pathfinder, an unmanned space probe launched in July 1997. 아레스 밸리스는 화성의 북반구에 위치한 거대한 충돌구로 지름이 1700km에 달한다. Ares Vallis is a massive impact crater located in the northern hemisphere of Mars, with a diameter of 1700km. 우리나라 서울에서 부산까지의 거리인 500km를 훌쩍 넘는 크기다. It is much larger than the distance from Seoul to Busan, which is 500km. 특히 아레스 밸리스는 과거 화성에 물이 있었다는 증거 중 하나다. In particular, Ares Vallis is one of the pieces of evidence that there was once water on Mars. 전문가들은 아레스 밸리스가 침식된 지층을 가지고 있어, 예전에 화성에서 물이 흘렀다고 보고 있다. Experts believe that Ares Vallis has eroded strata, indicating that water once flowed on Mars. 한편 영화 '마션'은 2035년 화성에서 우주비행사가 실종되어 지구로 귀환한다는 가정을 바탕으로 한다. Meanwhile, the movie 'The Martian' is based on the assumption that an astronaut goes missing on Mars in 2035 and returns to Earth. 영화는 리들리 스콧 감독이 메가폰을 잡고, 배우 맷 데이먼이 주인공을 맡았다. The film was directed by Ridley Scott and starred Matt Damon as the main character. 2015년 10월 개봉해 전 세계에서 6300만 달러의 수익을 올렸다. It was released in October 2015 and grossed $63 million worldwide.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a video capturing the Scar inside the enormous Hellas Crater on Mars, the filming location for the movie 'The Martian'. This is the largest impact crater on Mars, discovered in the 2011 novel 'The Martian' by Andy Weir and later portrayed in the 2015 film. In the film, astronaut Mark Watney becomes stranded on Mars after a massive dust storm prevents his rescue ship from reaching him.

Watney is stranded in the vast desert of Acidalia Planitia and must travel 3,200km to reach the Scar where NASA's Mars 2020 mission is currently preparing to land. The Scar itself is 460km wide, much larger than the distance between Seoul and Busan. However, it is relatively shallow. The European Space Agency states that the shape of the Scar is likely due to centuries of wind-blown sediments, water, lava, or a combination of the three wearing it down.

The Scar contains several layers, including a slightly elevated, long-winding ridge known as a wrinkle ridge, formed after lava layers slowly cooled and contracted, causing the surface to buckle and rise. Additionally, dark streaks running across the top of the Scar may be fossilized volcanic ash from a past Martian volcanic eruption.

The crater was named after Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who observed dark lines on Mars in 1877 and named them 'canali', which was later mistranslated to 'canals', leading people to believe there might be intelligent life on Mars. The ESA's Mars Express has been orbiting the planet since 2003, capturing the red planet from different angles and creating a vast 3D map of Mars.

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