Inaccuracies

Rating: 3/10 (13 May 2017)

1. The ship is caught in a "Neutrino storm" that causes great damage to the ship. Neutrinos are virtually massless particles that can pass through long, very dense mass without colliding with a single atomic nucleus. In astrophysics class, as an example, the instructor said neutrinos could pass through a lead pipe for the entire length of the Galaxy (100,000 light years) and have no collisions. A neutrino storm would not cause the damage it did to the ship in the movie.
2. The ship continues to hover over the same area on the planet where the away team landed-- first going down to an "80 km orbit" then a "40 km orbit." Kepler's 3rd law of orbital dynamics (equal area in equal time) states that the closer on orbiting object is to the celestial object it is orbiting, the faster it goes unless a LOT of constant energy is expended. To stay over the same spot, the ship would have to be at the geosynchronous altitude of the planet. On earth this is approximately 19,000 miles. Since the plant was said to be 96% the gravity of the earth, a similar altitude would be required to hover over the same spot on the planet.
Of course the inclination would have to be close to zero and the apogee and perigee very close (eccentricity close to zero) and the spot to hover over near the equator in order to to hover over the same spot on the planet but they could have had such orbital parameters on the spacecraft so we can give them a break on this last area.
However, I rated the movie 3 out of 10 for other areas I did not like: Plot including an obligatory PC scene that was pointless.