Chapter 663 The Miracle of Life in the Asteroid Belt

For the detection of Ceres, Dong Chen cannot do it alone. Although Ceres is only a small dwarf planet, to Dong Chen, it is a big thing with a diameter of nearly a thousand kilometers.

Even the 60-meter Andromeda is a tiny person in front of it, let alone Dong Chen, who is less than two meters tall.

Fortunately, Dong Chen has the power of technology to eliminate this body size difference to a certain extent.

One sheep is herded, and two sheep are herded. When making drilling equipment in the ship-selling citizen world, Dong Chen simply built a large number of detection satellites to assist in detection.

These dozens or hundreds of detection satellites were released. They come in all sizes and are not disposable. They will be recycled after Dong Chen leaves or the detection is completed. They will be piled in the warehouse of the ship-selling citizen waiting for the next time. Use, or directly recycle materials and reuse them in other equipment.

When dozens or hundreds of detection satellites circle around Ceres at the same time, Dong Chen's research becomes much more convenient. They basically maintain a speed of 400 meters per second, and can circle Ceres in a little more than two hours, which is very efficient.

Among these advanced detection satellites, some are responsible for looking through geographical structures to see where there are cavities or rock cracks, etc., which are the key scanning areas. Others are responsible for exploring temperature display, element structure, radiation conditions, magnetic fields, illumination, etc. A series of data can allow No. 1 and Dong Chen to fully understand Ceres.

Pieces of video and a large amount of data are continuously transmitted to Andromeda by satellites, and then transmitted back to the earth from Andromeda for No. 1 to use her own computer to classify, organize and calculate various data, and finally compile the sorted information. The data was sent back to the Andromeda spacecraft for Dong Chen to study further.

"It's so beautiful! I didn't notice it when I first arrived in the asteroid belt. After landing, it lost its beauty. It still feels like this overall."

"Looking at these cracks that are ejecting steam, there must be a lot of liquid underneath it."

"Also, these places are all covered with ice. There is really no shortage of water on Ceres. No wonder it is inevitably used as a large reservoir in many planetary transformation plans."

Dong Chen crossed his arms and looked at the hologram of Ceres produced by No. 1 using the latest detection data. It was different from the simple sphere in the original star map. Now it had sufficient data support. The hologram of Ceres in front of him was made When it comes to real-time display, the time difference is no more than one second.

Although Ceres is somewhat far away from the sun, three times as far as the sun from the earth, water vapor will occasionally emerge from some cracks under the sunlight. Even when solar activity breaks out, a large amount of steam will emerge. A short-lived weak atmosphere will also form.

Of course, there has been a lot of research on this on Earth, but after all, it is too far away. All data must be calculated based on the data returned by the detector. Many detections have shown that the water vapor should belong to comets. It is formed by sublimation of ice directly by heat without going through the liquid process.

However, after Dong Chen's close observation and analysis of the data returned by all detection satellites, he felt that this conclusion could be overturned, because the water vapor obviously exists in the state of fog beads, so the fact that there is liquid water in this planet is basically Already decided.

Later detection also proved his guess. After the satellite found a good drilling point, the drilling equipment that had been prepared immediately drove there. Even Dong Chen himself drove the spacecraft over to watch.

As a result, a small underground liquid lake was discovered after drilling down less than two kilometers, and a large number of biota was found in it.

This underground liquid lake is relatively small and relatively close to the surface. Numerous detection satellites have also detected underground cavities of various sizes. It is likely that they are all underground liquid lakes or oceans containing water. The conditions there are even worse than It's even better here.

But Dong Chen no longer planned to waste that time. This small proof was enough.

Most of these organisms are fungi, with a small amount of bacteria, and even a very small number of multi-cellular life. This is a slowly evolving microbial world, which allows No. 1 and Dong Chen to see it at a glance under the microscope.

"No. 1, have you seen it? There is a complete microbial tribe here. It is indeed similar to what we expected before."

"Look here, there are many big ones here, the largest one is more than 0.1 mm. These are multi-celled complex organisms."

"And here, these two groups of microorganisms are still fighting. This reminds me of an evolutionary game I played a long time ago called Spore. It's very similar to those scenes of devouring evolution."

If Earth scientists discovered this, they would have to scream. It might be on the same level as the discovery of the alien civilization relics on the original island.

Although these are just microorganisms, they can be considered life after all. In this way, the universal rules of alien life have a certain factual basis.

These beings do not need to be humanoids, animals, or even plants. As long as there are some signs of life activity, even if they are viruses or bacteria, they are still alien life.

After the scope of alien life expands to this range, life may exist on many planets that are not suitable for human habitation and have relatively extreme environments.

After Dong Chen carefully observed these microorganisms, he discovered that the origin of these things should come from the other side of the wormhole behind Jupiter. They are of the same origin as life on earth and come from arc galaxies.

They are said to be alien life, but in fact they are just life living on other planets. It is just because of the different living environment and the different directions they choose during evolution. In the final analysis, they are the same as us five hundred years ago... no , they were one family five billion years ago.

After proving these, it can be regarded as settling one of Dong Chen's worries. From this point of view, there should be more or less life on other planets in the solar system, even the famous Enceladus and Jupiter. There may also be relatively large life on Moon, and it is not impossible that something similar to the jellyfish and octopus in the movie "Europa Report" is possible, but this is not what Dong Chen should be concerned about.

As long as there are no obvious signs of civilization on these planets and there is only life, it is not a big deal. Maybe scientists on the earth will be interested, but Dong Chen will forget it.

Maybe when he has more free time, he might go exploring and look for extraterrestrial life because he has nothing to do. Now, in the short term, he wants to solve Xie Fei's matter first.

Finally, after looking at the busy base construction scene on Ceres, Dong Chen turned around and sat down in the captain's seat and said, "Okay, No. 1, let's plan the route back. Let's go back and meet with Xie Fei for a while to see what he does. It became what it is now.”

"It's good luck that he's been hiding for so long, but for such a person, the good luck must come to an end."

"Okay, sir, the return route is being planned, and the Andromeda spacecraft has started to return."

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