Unofficial Martian Timeline

	A	B	C	D	E	F
1		Events on Earth	Mission Day	Events on Hermes	Sol Day	Events on Mars

2		From Ares Mission Guide (Movie) Guide	1-124	124 days to travel from Earth to Mars; expected total length of mission: 396 days		31 planned days on Mars surface
3		5/4/2033 - Crew selection		[after recovering Watney +563 =959 total days]
4		9/1/2033 - Crew Training Begins
5		9/16/3033 - Presupply Missions begin to be sent to Mars
6		7/6/2035 - Hermes Departs with Ares 3 Crew
7		11/7/2035 - Ares 3 Crew arrives on Martian Surface	124		1	Lewis & Beck Set up the Hab p. 152-153
8		12/5/3035 - Scheduled Departure from Martian Surface	125		2	Vogel & Watney set up Solar Cells "took a week" p. 70
9			126		3
10			127		4
11		2/19/2038 - Calculated Return Date to Earth	128		5
12			129		6	Storm. Crew evacuates using MAV p132-142. Watney puncture wound to side p4-5.
13			130		7	Cleans solar cells p. 9
14			131		8
15			132		9
16			133		10	Spends previous days searching for communication dish p 11
17			134		11
18			135		12
19			136		13
20			137		14	Starts creating soil p. 13
21			138		15
22	November 23, 2035	Thanksgiving (November 22, 2035)	139		16	Thanksgiving
23	November 24, 2035		140		17
24	November 25, 2035		141		18	MOVIE TIMELINE: Storm happens on Sol 18
25	November 26, 2035		142		19
26	November 27, 2035		143		20
27	November 28, 2035		144		21
28	November 29, 2035		145		22
29	November 30, 2035		146		23
30	December 1, 2035		147		24
31	December 2, 2035		148		25
32	December 3, 2035		149		26
33	December 4, 2035		150		27
34	December 5, 2035		151		28
35	December 6, 2035		152		29	Using Rover popup tents for potatoes p, 23
36	December 7, 2035		153		30	Comes up with Hydrogen plan to 'make water' p. 25
37	December 8, 2035		154		31
38	December 9, 2035		155		32
39	December 10, 2035		156		33	Starts to use the hydrazine to make water p. 30
40	December 11, 2035		157		34
41	December 12, 2035		158		35
42	December 13, 2035		159		36
43	December 14, 2035		160		37	Hydrazine mishap with unaccounted for o2 from exhaling. p. 35 hides out in rover 2
44	December 15, 2035		161		38
45	December 16, 2035		162		39	comes up with plan to clear the mdv of hydrogen p. 40
46	December 17, 2035		163		40
47	December 18, 2035		164		41
48	December 19, 2035	Watney Memorial Service p. 49 Venkat orders satellite imagery of Ares 3 site	165		42
49	December 20, 2035	Mindy puts it all together p. 52	166		43
50	December 21, 2035	nine days of news conferences. etc	167		44
51	December 22, 2035		168		45
52	December 23, 2035		169		46
53	December 24, 2035		170		47
54	December 25, 2035		171		48
55	December 26, 2035		172		49
56	December 27, 2035		173		50
57	December 28, 2035		174		51
58	December 29, 2035		175		52
59	December 30, 2035		176		53
60	December 31, 2035		177		54
61	January 1, 2036		178		55
62	January 2, 2036		179		56
63	January 3, 2036		180		57
64	January 4, 2036		181		58
65	January 5, 2036		182		59
66	January 6, 2036		183		60
67	January 7, 2036		184		61	aquaman meta p. 64
68	January 8, 2036		185		62
69	January 9, 2036		186		63	lots of planning about battery strength to get to Ares 4 p. 67
70	January 10, 2036		187		64
71	January 11, 2036		188		65
72	January 12, 2036		189		66	testing of Rover battery power code name Sirius 1 aborted because of cold p. 72
73	January 13, 2036		190		67
74	January 14, 2036		191		68
75	January 15, 2036	p. 80+ watching Watney conduct Sirus runs	192		69	sirius 2: Heads out to retrieve RTG unit (nuclear power generator). p. 75
76	January 16, 2036	Decision to not tell Hermes crew (by Mitch against Venkat's objections) p. 85	193		70	Sirius 3 p.77
77	January 17, 2036		194		71	Sets off for Pathfinder p. 95 (Sol 79 report: 8th day on Sirius 4)
78	January 18, 2036		195		72
79	January 19, 2036	~~ Mindy/Venkat figure out he's heading for Pathfinder p. 87-94	196		73
80	January 20, 2036		197		74
81	January 21, 2036		198		75	Lewis Valley (Watney named)
82	January 22, 2036		199		76
83	January 23, 2036		200		77
84	January 24, 2036		201		78
85	January 25, 2036		202		79	Saving bodily fluids update. yee haw p. 95
86	January 26, 2036		203		80	100 km from 'Carl Sagan Memorial Station' aka Pathfinder p. 97
87	January 27, 2036		204		81	22 km from Pathrfinder / aside about Johansson afraid of tattoo needle p. 99
88	January 28, 2036		205		82	At Pathfinder, makes ramp, etc. p. 100-104
89	January 29, 2036		206		83	("spent 22 miserable sols on Pathfinder trip") P. 281
90	January 30, 2036		207		84
91	January 31, 2036		208		85
92	February 1, 2036		209		86
93	February 2, 2036		210		87
94	February 3, 2036		211		88
95	February 4, 2036		212		89
96	February 5, 2036		213		90	p. 105
97	February 6, 2036		214		91
98	February 7, 2036		215		92	brief flash of Hab beacon
99	February 8, 2036		216		93
100	February 9, 2036		217		94	Back at the Hab p. 107