If you watched the movie, you will probably understand what I meant since it’s part of the ending scenes where they need to grab some oxygen from the tanks.
If you didn’t, let me “try” to explain: their ship is composite by two endings connected by long poles with a solar panel in the middle. Something goes wrong and they need to move from and ending to another ( let’s call it Point A to Point B). To do that, they start to “climb” outside Point A these poles until they reach the “middle” mark, and then they start to descent, like the gravity was inverted, until they reach point B.Is that a real physical contempt? If so, what’s it’s called and how it works?
PS: the spaceship is spinning during their whole voyage to Mars.
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the ship is probably rotating. The inversion point is where the centrifugal force changes direction, as you cross the rotation axis.
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