Although this exploration of Mars can be said to have yielded huge gains, the Mars exploration operation has not actually completed the more difficult tasks they will have in the future.

That is to conduct further exploration of whether there is life on Mars, and will also be responsible for the initial engineering of the Mars base.

Since the Ziweixing 1 space exploration ship discovered a large amount of energy crystal ores in the crater of the 18th North Pole of Mars and the surrounding areas, Zhang Yi and scientists from various countries on the moon unanimously decided to directly prepare for the 18th North Pole of Mars.

Establish a Mars base in the crater.

At the same time, a large number of energy crystals were discovered in the Mars 18 area. After the reserves were discovered, the lunar base dispatched more than 30 Overlord gun-class space planes, carrying a large amount of supplies and mining equipment, and rushed to Mars.

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Although it is said that using an aerospace plane to go to Mars is very dangerous on the way, fortunately, the Ziweixing 1 spacecraft has previously dropped a large number of navigation satellites, detection satellites, etc. on the way, and the dangers to be encountered in the picture have been eliminated

It has been reduced to the lowest level, so even aerospace planes already have the ability to fly to Mars.

Just when the lunar base sent a large number of space planes to Mars, the Ziweixing 1 space exploration ship began further exploration of Mars, and the focus of this exploration was hundreds of meters below the ice at the North Pole of Mars.

Under the water at night to see if there is really life on Mars.

Because the focus of this exploration was different, a large amount of materials were loaded into the aerospace plane. At the same time, the aerospace plane carried by the ship also traveled between Mars and the Ziweixing 1 spacecraft again and again.

Although the displacement of the Ziweixing 1 spacecraft is only about 4,000 tons, the total amount of material contained in the Ziweixing 1 spacecraft is actually far more than 4,000 tons. After all, the Ziweixing 1 scientific research vessel is

A real spaceship, not a ship on the sea.

If it is a ship on the sea, if the displacement is only more than 4,000 tons, it is already very impressive to be able to carry more than 1,000 tons of materials. If the total weight of the materials carried exceeds the limit of the ship, then the spread will not be able to float at all.

on the water.

However, the spaceship is different. If the weight exceeds the extreme limit of the universe when it just takes off from the moon, then the spaceship will not be able to fly. But once the spacecraft enters space, then the weight does not mean much.

Just like Wang Wei and his Ziweixing 1 space research vessel, its displacement is only about 4,000 tons, but on this trip, the weight of the materials they carried has far exceeded 10,000 tons.

Among the tens of thousands of tons of materials, there are not only exploration equipment, experimental equipment, drilling equipment, etc., but also a large amount of construction materials.

Since Wang Wei and the others only carried one aerospace plane on this trip, it took more than a week to just transport these supplies to Mars.

After all, Mars is not the Earth. In the process of carrying materials, the aerospace aircraft not only has to load materials in the gravity-free environment of space, but also after landing on Mars, especially in the polar regions of Mars, the temperature is very low, which greatly increases

How difficult it is for them to transport supplies.

When all the supplies were transported to Mars and Area 18, the entire crew of the Ziwei Star 1 spacecraft, except for the most basic personnel on duty, came to Mars and prepared to attack the satellites located in Area 18.

An ice layer for deeper drilling.

"Everyone should pay attention to the fact that the sample we want to take this time is located in the liquid object 500 meters below the ice layer here, so the difficulty of drilling this time is a bit high. I hope everyone will start as soon as possible." After arriving on the scheduled ice layer,

, Wang Wei said to everyone.

"Start the equipment!" Following Wang Wei's command, Renyuan, who was responsible for operating the drilling equipment, pressed the start switch of the equipment. The rotary head of the drilling machine began to rotate slowly, and the speed increased from slow to fast. When the speed reached

After a certain level, the rotor begins to contact the ice layer. Under the high-speed rotation of the drill bit, countless ice chips are brought out by the high-speed rotating drill bit, and most of the ice chips begin to slowly become smaller and eventually disappear.

Although it is not easy to drill on Mars, after several days of their efforts this year, they still succeeded in drilling through the thick ice at the North Pole of Mars, and then turned around and successfully penetrated below the ice on the surface of the North Pole of Mars.

, liquid material region

However, just as experts such as Xiang Juncai and others from the lunar base expected, after Wang Wei and the others successfully dug through the ice, they found that the liquid object below was indeed liquid carbon dioxide, not water, and then they continued downward.

Drill.

Then they drilled into another layer of ice, but it was obvious that the hardness of this layer of ice was far less than the hardness of the ice on the surface of Mars, and it was much easier to turn the drilling equipment.

When Wang Wei's drilling equipment drilled to about 400 meters above the surface, the entire equipment beeped, and then there was no more weight-bearing sound like before. The entire mechanical equipment ran very easily, as if there was no sound at all.

Like a heavy burden.

Regarding this situation, the drilling experts brought by Wang Wei and the others immediately said: "Captain, based on our experience, we have drilled through the second layer of ice and successfully reached the second underground layer, where the liquid material

area."

"Immediately test the elemental properties of the liquid material in the second underground layer. Is it water or liquid carbon dioxide?" Wang Wei immediately ordered.

"Yes! Captain."

Since the equipment they carried was very sound at this time, the results of the detection of liquid objects were quickly obtained. As expected, the liquid material in the second underground layer was really the long-awaited source of life, that is, water.

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"Oh yeah, great, we finally found liquid water on Mars." When the test results came out, both Wang Wei and other personnel shouted excitedly on the spot.

However, before they were overjoyed, the person who had just tested said again: "Captain, the results of our test not only confirm whether it is the water we have been waiting for for a long time, but the test data also shows that in this water

There are also some organic matter in the middle, which means that more than 80% of life exists in the deep underground at the north pole of Mars."
Chapter completed!