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    I have just completed the novel The Martian by Andy Weir. A botanist and engineer named Mark Watney was with the third group of humans to go to Mars but in a freak sandstorm his team was evacuated on their sixth day there to their interplanetary spaceship The Hermes. He was left for dead impaled by a communications antenna and spends 541 martian days alone on the desolate planet as the world desperately hopes that his crew and other space organizations can save him. This story contains complex science

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    Weir’s novel The Martian is a story about astronaut Mark Watney who gets stranded on Mars when the rest of his crew leave the planet in the belief that he is dead. Mark must then find a way to communicate with Earth and grow food on a planet, where nothing grows, in order not to starve to death before a rescue mission can be sent. The story is set sometime in a realistic near future both on Mars and Earth. Mars is the most important component to the story. It works as the antagonist for the protagonist

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    The year that the movie The War of the Worlds was released was 2005. That decade was a great time of science, bringing many discoveries and achievements, which made their way into the media as these were issues that were constantly on the minds of the public. The main science topics addressed in The War of the Worlds are extraterrestrial life and microorganisms. To illustrate my point, in the past 20 years, scientists have found the idea of life on other planets to be highly likely. We are supposed

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    humor, and foreshadowing are some examples of elements that readers will find in The Martian. In The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney is left behind on Mars. Because of a dust storm, Mark's teammates believe that he is dead and left him behind. The Martian is a science fiction book that gives readers an idea of how people might be able to colonize Mars and gives readers an idea of what space is like. The Martian has an author that self-published his book, and who used humor and foreshadowing to keep

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    Mars, Inc.

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    Behavioral segmentation is a third segmentation criteria Mars will focus on concerning parents and children. This type of segmentation ‘requires finding the major benefits people look for in the product class’ (Armstrong & Kotler, 2009). The sugar free M&M’s are a candy treat a child can eat before bedtime without

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    Nars Pros And Cons

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    Mars, observed by the average person with a telescoped but greatly observed by many astronomers, hasn’t yet felt the touch of a human's foot. A group that goes by the name “National Aeronautics and Space Administration” [NASA], plans to change this between the 2030’s and the 2040’s by sending a team of astronauts on a journey to Mars. The many difficulties behind the mission, however, are greatly being put into consideration by NASA, and are also planning ahead to prevent such difficulties. In brief

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    The Tragedy Of Dr. Miller

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    Dr. Miller watched a bright light soar through the sky as the jet experienced turbulence and the asteroid made contact with the ground. The resulting shock wave was much more intense than Samuel had predicted, which was worrisome, but all he could do was watch from the window as he soared through the sky of a new Earth. Dr. Miller safely landed in a panicked Moscow and quickly made his way to Dr. Yaknova’s headquarters. They worked together to evaluate the damage and discovered that Samuel’s predictions

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    NASA Mission

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    NASA is panning to complete a man-based mission to Mars in the future due to the similarities is has with Earth. There is evidence, that in the past Mars had surface water and possible some sort of life form. In order to complete a man based mission to Mars, NASA has begun taking the many different steps in order to complete a successful mission. NASA has a three Phase Journey they have come up with in order to get to Mars. The first step is called “Earth Reliant.” This phase is devoted to research

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    Mercury recent data shows that water ice may exist in the bottom of craters at Mercury’s poles. Mercury don’t have any moons. Mercury don’t support life because of the conditions of the planet. Mercury is really cold and the atmosphere can’t protect you because it is very weak. Mercury can’t even trap heat or have a breathable environment. Mercury will need a spacesuit, the spacesuit would need to keep us warm, we will need to have trajectories so they can get into orbit around Mercury. If we don’t

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    the new "Gravity", but set on Mars. During their mission on Mars, a team of astronauts is hit by an unpredicted storm and have to abort their mission and leave for Earth. During the evacuation one of the crew members, Mark Watney, is hit by a projectile due to the storm and is thrown away. The crew is forced to leave him thinking he died due to rupture in his space suit. However, Mark survives and now has to find ingenious ways to make it till the next scheduled Mars mission fours years later with

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