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The Martian should be required reading for all
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Jacqueline Miller, Ph.D., senior research scientist at Education
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postdoctoral fellow in plasma physics at Dartmouth College

THE MARTIAN by Andy Weir

he Martian tells the story of astronaut Mark Watney, who

is stranded on Mars after a mission failure leads his crew
and NASA to assume he is dead. Using his background in
botany and engineering, Watney must find a way to survive
as NASA begins a race to save his life.
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