Director of The Martian was shown photographs of water flows by Nasa ‘approximately two months ago’,but by then it was too late to include the information in the plot of the Matt Damon film Related: The Martian and Nasa – a coincidence too good to be accurate? On one level, The Martian may be functioning as a giant advertisement for Nasa, and but the close collaboration between the space agency and Ridley Scott’s film-making team has resulted in the director remaining blasé approximately the dramatic announcement of evidence of flowing water on Mars. “I knew that months ago,” he said in response to the news.
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Source: theguardian.com