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Life on Mars: What the movie "The Martian" starring Matt Damon gets right, according to botanist

CBC Ottawa sent a real-life botanist to review Matt Damon's new film "The Martian", a movie about a botanist who gets stranded on planet Mars.

Canadian Museum of Nature botanist has studied life on Mars

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This photo provided by courtesy of the Toronto International Film Festival and Twentieth Century Fox shows Matt Damon as Mark Watney a scene from the film, "The Martian," directed by Ridley Scott. (The Associated Press)

CBC Ottawa sent a real-life botanist to review Matt Damon's new film "The Martian", a movie about a botanist who gets stranded on planet Mars.    

Paul Sokoloff is a botanist at the Canadian Museum of Nature and has taken part in Mars simulations in the martian-like tundra of the Canadian Arctic. 

Sokoloff was interviewed by Alan Neal the host of CBC Radio program All in a Day. Listen to his review here.
 

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