How accurate is the science behind 'The Martian'?

In this weekend's box office hit, Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars after his crew is hit by a sandstorm. But is the drama realistic about science? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss what the movie got right and wrong.

[michaelsong]

Gotta say, the man is clearly over-excited about this film (and book). Well, I can see why. This is pretty much one of the VERY few movies where it depicts scientists and astronauts (not on individual level, but as a whole NASA and everyone involved) as cool and awesome protagonists, and at the same time, got the actual science right. Truly awesome.

[teddgrambmx]

The host are absolutely clueless about what he’s talking but also intrigued or curious to hear what he says

[nortan]

Love your work Tyson!👍 Hope you inspire even more minds towards science.

[bradleyjohnson]

Awe, 2020 here, just remembering going to the movies.

[nanky]

Having taken advanced molecular biology and genetics myself all I can say is, I wish the professors tried more to explain the grand design in this way. So much of science is just memorizing how things have been known to work and not what we can inevitably do with what we end up learning. Such a shame really.

[mmmodafoca]

i would love to be in one of Dr. Tyson's Lectures.

[jamesbernard]

I was very impressed with the Scientific-accuracy of this movie.
Have to give the producers a lot of credit for utilizing the information that we have gained over the last 50 years. The only fault that I could possibly make, would be the terrifying “capture“ in space. Although this was scientifically reasonable, it was highly unlikely to co-ordinate a manual Mars launch into space to catch up to an incoming spacecraft that was NOT in orbit. But this was not a problem for me, because all dramas based on facts are given, “license” for dramatic effect.

[MM-pled]

Me & my family would listen to Dr. Tyson's Lectures all day long.

[onemercilessming]

Dr. Tyson is a worthy successor to his mentor, Dr. Carl Sagan.

[KyleClerico]

The science behind the dust storm was actually accurate (to our knowledge) when the book was written. We learned about the atmosphere in a future mission.

[scottcupp]

Did the curiosity find microbial life on Mars? If so, that is a huge thing!!

[stephenmaginn]

The not giving into the problem.is pretty detailed

[MrESSE]

Matt Damon walk on Mars in base as it is on earth

[ReelMeurik]

The JPL thing may have been inaccurate (as we know it today), but the film takes place a few years in the future. Maybe the structure of the US space program is different, where JPL has more responsibilities along with NASA.

[pranjalvw]

Even if Neil would've directed the movie as per his own wish, he could've criticized on it later

[godfather]

I got told the worked close in hand with Nasa on the movie to make things as right as it can be and i love the movie tbh haha

[la-civetta]

He is a botanist, as it says "here". How much more prove do you need?

[wduvernay]

I wonder if someone drinks the Martian water, will they turn into they Thing?

[xveteran]

0.13 hakka kakkama situ terviseks ja kartul kärab parasiit ronib välja Kartuli mädanikust. Sead teavad et nii see on siga oli kunagi targem kui inimesed.

[alexnguyen]

Is project hail mary scientifically accurate?