Chapter 1617 Ice!

There is a special space on the lunar lander. Although this space was originally designed to be a crew cabin, it is used as one of the cargo compartments on the lunar lander.

When the three lunar exploration vehicles drove out of the lunar exploration module and left traces on the lunar surface, many engineers in the command center secretly clenched their fists.

Others can step on this planet and send lunar exploration vehicles to crush it, but they can do it too!

In the era when there were no space probes a few decades ago, due to tidal locking, the moon orbited the blue star with the same period as its rotation. Therefore, the moon seen from the blue star was always the same, and the far side of the moon was always the same to humans. It's a mysterious and unknown world.

When the photos and videos taken by Jiuzhou Technology's lunar exploration rover were transmitted to Blue Star, everyone in Jiuzhou Technology's command center saw a foreign planet that was completely different from the front of the moon.

The rugged ground is dotted with craters.

Moreover, it is also a "permanent dark zone".

Gu Qing was in the command center. Like other staff, he looked up at the big screen in the command center, just like the ancients looked up at the stars.

The wonders on the far side of the moon have aroused the curiosity of countless scientists and engineers at Jiuzhou Technology.

With the advancement of technology, they will finally be able to control the equipment themselves without relying on other institutions' data, and uncover the mystery of this eternal dark zone.

In the information returned by the lunar probe, a desolate world without wind, clouds, and oxygen appeared before everyone's eyes.

The front side is a hot sunshine area of ​​127 degrees Celsius, but the back side is a cold shadow area of ​​minus 173 degrees Celsius.

The impact crater looks like a strange dark snake crawling in the shadow world.

But a lunar exploration rover was rushing towards these strange dark snakes in a hurry.

When it was fixed under a hillside, the breathing of all the engineers and scientists in the command center suddenly stopped.

ice!

Subsequently, an extremely flexible robotic arm stretched out from the bottom of the lunar probe.

A small drill bit made of special metal protrudes from its end. This drill bit glows with a faint light when captured by the camera.

"You must be careful, be careful again, the lunar ice may have different hardnesses..."

Because there is still a certain delay in data transmission, these operations are processed by the intelligent core module inside the lunar exploration rover, which is the most realistic unmanned operation.

When the drill bit was placed smoothly on the material that looked like ice on the lunar ground, the drill bit started.

Without air as a medium, sound can only be collected on the conductor of the lunar rover itself.

After a part of the material was put into the lunar exploration rover, simple test results were quickly sent back to the Kyushu Aerospace Command Center on the Blue Star ground.

In some component testing documents, Gu Qing and other aerospace engineers and scientists from Jiuzhou Technology clearly saw such a description.

[Water (chemical formula HO), an inorganic substance composed of hydrogen and oxygen, non-toxic and drinkable]

This colorless and odorless transparent liquid at normal temperature and pressure is called the source of human life and an important substance for sustaining life. It is also called hydrogen oxide.

But at this moment, it is also the substance that all the aerospace engineers and scientists at the Jiuzhou Science and Technology Command Center are paying most attention to.

An engineer whispered to a colleague next to him: "In the permanent dark zone, because the sun will never shine, the temperature is below freezing, and the water vapor escaping from the lunar soil and lunar rocks will be condensed into ice.

Now that it has been confirmed that it does exist, as long as the reserves are proven, it can become our base for space exploration! "

However, this colleague seemed to disagree. He pushed up his glasses frames, stared at the picture on the big screen in the command center, and said without looking back: "Have you seen this data? The thickness of the crust on the back of the moon. It is indeed larger than the front side, which proves that the surface of the back side is closer to the inner layer of the moon than the front side, but it is also easier to be covered by impact events, forming more impact craters.

It can be seen that the distribution of these impact craters is extremely uneven. Some are densely packed in a small area, while others are more isolated. Therefore, if we want to build a base on the back, it is currently impossible to choose an excellent and safe base construction area through seismic geology. .

And if you look to the southeast, they are all ray plains caused by meteorite impacts. These ray plains spread radially in all directions. Since they are relatively young and have not been eroded, the geological structure is loose and fragmented, making them unsuitable for selection as a base. Construction area.

The landing sites we chose are low-lying areas on the far side of the moon. These areas were formed by cracks created by ancient volcanic eruptions. After billions of years of erosion, many low-lying terrains were gradually formed.

These low-lying areas are relatively flat and are ideal landing areas. However, after Daxia Aerospace Group's Chang'e-4 landed on the back side, no deeper geological monitoring was conducted, so we still don't know whether low-lying areas can be used as lunar bases. district. "

No one who can work in this command center is an outsider.

It's just that due to the different division of labor, the understanding of certain projects is shallower, but the shallower understanding does not mean that people are stupid.

The young scientist simply said these few points, and the originally cheerful signal engineer became silent for a while.

Among the exchanges between these engineers and scientists, Li Jian looked at the video of the far side of the moon most intently.

Looking at these harsh scenes that looked like those in movies, he suddenly remembered his experiences seven years ago.

Due to some special reasons, he failed to successfully enter the higher decision-making level of the Chang'e project and chose to leave Daxia Aerospace Group and come to Jiuzhou Technology.

By the time of the Xiayin celestial calendar year 1019, Daxia Aerospace Group's Chang'e-4 mission successfully landed on the far side of the moon, becoming the first probe in human history to successfully land on the far side of the moon.

The high-resolution photos of the far side of the moon it captured have almost no other special differences from the video environment on this screen today.

In a sense, this lunar exploration by Kyushu Technology also proved the success of Chang'e-4.

“The rocks on the far side of the moon have higher density and more mineral resources, which can give the lunar exploration rover more options.

But because there is no interference from blue stars on the back side, dust and particles are hardly blown away by the wind, so the back side is also the best place to observe cosmic rays and study astronomy.

No matter what, a base must be established on the far side of the moon. "

After just being in a daze for a moment, Li Jian's eyes were full of determination.