They can't land on Mars, so Watney has to get to the nearest rocket — 2,000 miles away in Schiaparelli crater — and catch his ride in space. The first stop on this epic journey is Mawrth ...

First, a fun fact: In 2015's Oscar-nominated film The Martian, a key plot point centers on a Mars crater named for Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. In 1877, he discovered a series of ...