If you aren't excited for the film adaptation of "The Martian," a bestselling sci-fi novel by Andy Weir, this new video starring Neil deGrasse Tyson may do the trick.
Complete with epic music, stunning animations, and poetic narration from Tyson, it's clear the team behind the upcoming movie created the clip to look like a future episode of Cosmos. Tyson describes the spacecraft and mission so well, it almost hurts that they're not real.
It's a clear nod to NASA's real-life promise to get us to Mars by the 2030s. Tyson even has some gray hair to make the ruse feel more plausible.
The video is a perfect explanation of the ship that the main character, astronaut Mark Watney, and the rest of the crew will use to get to Mars in the movie.
The spaceship is called the Hermes, and it's the most complex and expensive object ever built, Tyson says.
Hermes sits in low Earth orbit between missions to Mars.
When an astronaut crew is ready to make the 140-million-mile journey to the red planet, they take a space shuttle up to Hermes and set sail on a cruise-controlled flight.
Here's the inside of the ship, as seen in an earlier promotional video for "The Martian":
The journey to Mars is treacherous though, Tyson explains. Hermes is bombarded with cosmic radiation as it flies through the vacuum of space:
The cosmic radiation can rip through an astronaut's DNA, damaging it beyond repair:
That's not the only risk during a journey to Mars. Solar flares from the sun and asteroids barreling through space could hit Hermes and leave the crew stranded or worse:
And on the inside:
"Earth, a magnificent world to which we owe our creation, no longer seems destined to be our final resting place," Tyson says at the end of the video.
We seriously cannot wait for the movie adaptation of "The Martian," and it seems like Tyson is as excited about it as we are.
Watch the full viral video teaser starring Neil deGrasse Tyson below.
