![]() ![]() With the primary communications dish gone, he has no way to talk to the Ares 3 team up on Hermes, the orbital station. ![]() This gives him time to stumble back to the Ares 3 “Hab,” where he stitches up his injuries and takes stock of his situation. By pure dumb luck, the puncture in his suit is sealed almost immediately when his own blood and water from the suit’s supply freezes over the hole. His suit punctured, he’s swept away, assumed dead, and left behind in the escape.īut Mark doesn’t die. NASA cancels the mission and orders the team to leave, but in the final moments of the scramble to pull out, the wind snaps off the primary communications dish and batters Mark. ![]() Six days after planetfall, a killer dust storm with 175 kilometer per hour winds rips through their site in Acidalia Planitia. Our hero is astronaut Mark Watney, part of Ares 3, the third manned mission to Mars. Mars is the next big adventure for humans in space, and debut novelist Andy Weir deftly captures the potential dangers and triumphs in this taut man-versus-Mars hard science thriller about survival, adaptability, and staying optimistic in the face of a thoroughly hostile unknown. ![]()
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