(Note at the beginning: This book will only introduce the corresponding planet information according to the needs of the plot. Avoid watering down.)
Liu Haibo's words made a few people thoughtful, but more people didn't care. In fact, cultivation is not an easy path after all. Tens of thousands of people have practiced cultivation, and there are only three people on earth who have finally reached the Golden Elixir stage.
The spacecraft decelerates cumbersomely and slowly in space, and the powerful engine cannot provide more thrust even if it is fully turned on; and this is already the largest engine on the earth today. In fact, even for expert companies, subsequent research came to a standstill after the advent of the Die Hard No. 1 engine. Limited by materials (including energy storage, transmission, conversion, metal casing and other aspects of materials), today's Die Hard 2 engine research topics are basically useless. And the bigger the engine, the better—you always have to consider the weight, cost, etc. of the spacecraft. In fact, any technology requires miniaturization and development.
Too far away... The engine roared, but the spacecraft could not see much deceleration for the moment. But yes, the current speed of the spacecraft has reached 2,000 kilometers per second, and the engine is working at full strength, and it can only drop 640 meters per minute. In fact, after so many days of operation, the engine has suffered a certain amount of wear and tear. Nowadays, the engine needs to be shut down for cooling after working at full strength for half an hour. This is an issue that has not been considered before. The thrust of the engine is too great, and the bearing capacity of metal is a huge test.
From a distance, we can see the distinct and unique appearance of Mars. The shallow atmosphere is red when viewed from the front, but around the edges, the bottom layer is red and the upper layer is light blue. The light blue color is easy to understand, it is just the scattering of sunlight; and the red color is because there is a lot of iron oxide on Mars.
In fact, in many cases in nature, red is related to iron.
However, as it gets closer, the two small satellites on Mars are about 13 kilometers in diameter, which can be said to be the smallest satellites in the solar system. The gravity of such a satellite is so small that a person can "launch" himself into space by jumping on it.
Getting closer and closer, the various terrains on Mars can be clearly seen; most importantly, there are more than 40 detectors of various sizes in the sky and ground of Mars.
Mars is a planet full of fantasy. From ancient times to modern times, there are various legends about Mars, some symbolizing disasters, some symbolizing wars... not a good sign anyway.
In modern times, with the development of astronomical telescopes, it was once believed that the gullies on Mars were man-made canals. But with the development of science and technology, this wonderful fantasy was finally blown away by the ruthless reality. The fantasy of Martians and extraterrestrial life has come to an end.
But as the saying goes, there is no way out of mountains and rivers, and there is another village with dark flowers and bright flowers. With the development of science, humans gradually discovered that there is a sufficient water source on Mars. How sufficient is this water? If you compare the proportion of water to planet with that of the earth, the earth is like a desert! There is abundant solid and liquid water (underground) at the north and south poles of Mars; even some lake bottoms that were once thought to be dry were later discovered to be wet!
Some people estimate that if the Martian atmosphere was not too thin to ensure the existence of liquid water on the surface, Mars might still be a blue water world.
Of course, humans have also paid a huge price in order to explore Mars. Many people only saw three or two Mars probes running rampant on Mars; but they did not see that at least dozens of Mars probes around the world, including China, failed to be launched!
In the initial exploration, the rocket was no longer controllable after it left the ground; to be precise, once the rocket ignited, it was basically uncontrollable. At this time, you can only rely on previous calculations. When an exploration spacecraft wants to fly from the earth to Mars, the rocket can only provide a maximum speed of 70 kilometers per second, which still needs to add the speed of the earth itself. After that, we can only rely on inertia to accurately land on Mars across a distance of hundreds of millions of kilometers. However, due to the unevenness of space, the push of sunlight (in space, the push of light cannot be ignored), etc., it will lead to too many unpredictable problems. This difficulty is equivalent to throwing a stone in the northernmost part of China and accurately throwing it into a cup in Singapore. The orbit cannot be repaired in the middle, and we can only rely on the initial calculation and thrust. However, during this flight, there are inevitable Effect of wind.
Today, humans are still full of enthusiasm for the exploration of Mars; and Mars is the first stop in the search for extraterrestrial life - of course, it is now ruthlessly ruined by the Master Company and Ceres. However, today’s search for life on Mars has been downgraded from intelligent life to microorganisms. Especially the several caves around the Arcia volcano on Mars; and such caves are now found all over Mars, and hundreds of them have been discovered. This is more like the breathing passage of Mars, full of reverie; and inside, a large amount of methane is emitted every day.
However, due to various reasons, the plan to send humans to Mars has never been implemented. The most important one is of course technical limitations.
However, today, Gaoshou Company finally broke this peaceful world.
"\(^o^), I saw the Olympus Mountains. They are so high that they even extend out of the atmosphere of Mars!"
"What's there to see? I saw the Mariner Valley. It's such a big valley!"
"Why do you like those ditches, valleys and the like!"
"Go away, I'm looking at the ice caps of the North Pole. This is almost equivalent to the North Pole on Earth. It's the same frozen world."
"Look, the Mars-1 satellite, wow, it's so beautiful. From this position, it looks like a red heart in space!"
The reason Phobos thought there was a crater with a diameter of **km on it was that it looked like a hole was missing; while Phobos itself is about ten kilometers in diameter, with one end slightly pointed, and at the right location From the position, it really looks like a red heart; especially because there is a lot of water (ice) on the top, it reflects the color of Mars, so you can see the red color.
"Hurry up and take a photo!"
"It's too late, we've already passed that point. I'm watching a tornado now!"
"Everyone, please pay attention," Liu Haibo's voice sounded, "We will circle Mars several times at a speed of 6 kilometers, and then land on Mars. Now everyone, please make the following preparations. First, check the status of the qualified space shuttle. Especially the power and working medium; secondly, check whether your space suit is damaged. We will probably stay on Mars for more than a month, or even more. The specific time will be adjusted according to the actual situation.”
"Captain, should we contact the headquarters about the situation here?" "No, the mission has been determined before." Every time Liu Haibo comes to this time, he will think of Zhang Jingyuan's somewhat crazy ideas.