Can someone explain in their own words what type of emotion the man felt as it described because I'm having trouble figuring out how to explain how he was feeling like for example "scared, nervous, frustrated, angry".

"The man felt his hair flutter and the tissues of his body draw tight as if he were standing at the center of a vacuum. His wife, before him, seemed almost to whirl away in smoke. The children, small seeds, might at any instant be sown to all the Martian climes."