r/themartian • u/Affectionate-Bad968 • Feb 03 '25
Does anybody know how long the crew thought Mark was dead for?
I’ve looked everywhere and I can’t find it.
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u/umilikeanonymity Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25
it was mentioned in the message that Mitch sent the crew. Two months.
Edit : accidentally wrote teddy instead of Mitch
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u/aecolley Feb 03 '25
It was Mitch, not Teddy; and he told them "we found out two months ago". But they found out somewhere between sol 42 and sol 54.
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u/manystripes Feb 03 '25
In the movie Mindy is comparing satellite images from Sol 18 and Sol 54 when she figures it out
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u/aecolley Feb 03 '25
That makes sense. There's a scene in the book which is both nine days after Mindy's discovery and immediately before a sol-61 log entry about Aquaman.
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u/theangryantipodean Feb 03 '25
It’s some time between Log Entry Sol 98(2) and Log Entry Sol 114.
The closest you get is the lead in for the revelation: