Martian

Two-time Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender plays the icy CIA agent nicknamed “Martian.”

Stoic and self-aware, Fassbender’s Martian is a slippery figure whose sense of self begins to unravel as the show’s thrilling first season unfurls.

Because of the relationship between the Martian and Earth orbits, for instance, Mars launches can only be scheduled for two-month windows every 26 months.

It also detected naturally occurring sounds on the planet itself — including Martian wind.

They placed a grid on a virtual surface and then ran models of a watery Martian climate to see how it evolved over time.