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Dong Yaxue, a Chinese researcher working for NASA(美国国家航空航天局) said she finds great pleasure in both exploring Mars and eating hot pot. Born in Chengdu, Southwest China’s Sichuan province, 30-year-old Dong is now a member of NASA’s MAVEN (火星大气与挥发演化) team. On Nov 5, Dong was invited to speak at a NASA news conference(发布会). She is the first Chinese female scientist to take part in a NASA news conference. Dong graduated from Chengdu’s Shishi High School in 2003 and studied in University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学). She got her doctor’s degree in Rice University in the United States.

While working in the US, Dong said that she feels as if she had never left Chengdu. She usually comes back every one or two years. She is a fan of Harry Potter and loves hot pot, Maocai, and Danhonggao, all famous foods from Chengdu. He Jianming, Dong’s high school teacher, said that physics is difficult for many girls but not for Dong Yaxue. As a middle school student, she won first prize in the national physics contest. He said Dong was not the top student in her school. "She never got first in the class, usually tenth to twentieth. But her scores of all subjects were even."

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