The Martian
In The Martian, what is the main character Mark Watney's area of expertise?
What is botany?
A low mass star stops fusing at Iron (Fe). TRUE/FALSE
What is false?
Apparent magnitude is brightness from the perspective of Earth. TRUE/FALSE
What is true?
What is a stellar wind/solar wind?
What does a low mass star end up as?
What is a red giant>>>planetary nebula?
In The Martian, the space agency of what other country comes to the aid of the US after NASA's own rocket exploded shortly after launch?
What is China?
Name three layers of the Sun.
What is convection zone, radiation zone, core, corona, photosphere, chromosphere?
What is the largest true brightest if the absolute magnitudes are: 2.8, 1.1, -4.6?
What is -4.6?
What is the distance from the Earth to the Sun?
What is Iron (Fe) because it no longer produces energy.
In The Martian what is commander Lewis's favorite type of music?
What is disco?
What is the term for balancing gravity against the outward push of gases inside a star?
What is hydrostatic equilibrium?
What is the measuring of the absorption and emission of light from stars to tell their composition?
What is spectroscopy?
Where is the Sun on the HR Diagram?
What is main sequence?
Order appropriately four steps to the life a star.
What is Giant molecular cloud/nebula>>>protostar>>>main sequence>>>red giant>>>death of star
In the movie The Martian what does the main character Mark Watney grow to survive?
What is potatoes?
What is 10 million Kelvin?
What is the rotation of material, typically gas and dust, around a protostar (or other objects)?
What is accretion disk?
What is the total energy produced by a star in one second?
What is luminosity?
What is the Chandraeskar Limit for becoming a neutron star or black hole?
What is 1.44 solar masses?
In the movie The Martian, why does Mark Watney aks the technicians back at NASA to refer to him as 'Captain Blonde Beard'?
What is Mars is classified under maritime law and he therefore could be considered a 'space pirate'?
What is the creation of heavier elements from lighter ones by nuclear fusion?
What is nucleosynthesis?
What is the order of the star classifications?
What is O B A F G K M?
What is the classification of our Sun?
What is a G(V)?
Describe the difference between a low mass star death and a high mass star death.
What is low mass becomes a planetary nebula and white dwarf and a high mass star explodes as a supernova to become a neutron star or black hole?