"Take a sample!" Xu Lianqiu drove to the rover, and the sampler equipped on it drilled holes from the surface and drilled the soil underground.
In this way they will take the soil back to the base for composition analysis and research to find more valuable clues.
"It's true that there is water!" Everyone could clearly see in the sample that there was actually moist Martian soil under the surface of the sand and gravel!
On this aurora planet, it is a rare thing to see the soil.
"Take more samples!" Du Xingyu explained, "Maybe we can find more!"
Back at the Zhurong Palace Base, everyone started working and used analytical instruments to observe and analyze the sample soil.
This time, the Mars spacecraft carried more than one billion chemical analysis instruments, and their work went on very quickly.
Two days later, in the scientific research room at Zhurong Palace Base.
Xu Lianqiu is conducting component testing of a small piece of silica stone, which is a layered silicate mineral containing more iron and titanium. There are many on Earth, but it is rare to have such silica stone on Mars.
"Organic compounds?" In the ingredient test results, she discovered the "traces of organic compounds" ingredients!
Xu Lianqiu was excited and organic compounds often represent traces of organic life!
She immediately further studied and analyzed, and after most of the day of hard work, she finally got some results.
Under a high-power electron microscope, this is a rod-shaped structure, but it shows no signs of life.
"I think this organic compound is formed naturally," Xu Rui analyzed. "The sampling area was an ancient lake. In ancient times, there might have been underground heat springs here, carrying rich minerals for material exchange, so this natural organic compound was formed."
"I don't think so!" Xu Lianqiu analyzed, "The organic compound of this rod-shaped mechanism looks like a fossil of a microorganism in appearance. It may be a fossil of ancient microorganisms on Mars!"
"And I further looked at the sedimentary rock samples and found a lot of similar things."
"It would be easy to say if it was an animal fossil, but it would be difficult to identify this microbial fossil. After all, its structure is too simple, and similar organic compounds may be formed under natural conditions." Yao Feng said.
"Since we can't confirm, let's find more evidence." Du Xingyu said, "Tomorrow we will continue to go around to take samples and analyze."
"Yes!" Everyone agreed. No matter what, the discovery of organic compounds on Mars is of great significance.
When the news was sent to the Space Administration, it immediately attracted everyone's attention. They began to discuss and analyze, and invited biology experts to conduct argumentation.
"If it is natural compounds, it means that there were conditions for life to appear in ancient Mars!"
"If it were fossils of microorganisms, it means that Mars once had life, and there may even be some microorganisms that survive now."
"We still have to wait for further research..."
The entire space agency is paying attention to Du Xingyu and his team's research. In the next week, the scientific research team is taking samples and analyzing to find more evidence.
At night, Du Xingyu tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep.
He asked the tech simulator: "Have you collected useful information?"
Technology Simulator: "In space navigation, I detected some extremely subtle changes that began a few years ago, and the space-time annihilation bomb was already in play. More detailed predictions will take some time to calculate and analyze."
"In addition, I found something wrong."
"Where?" Du Xingyu asked.
"On Mars." The technology simulator described, "The time and space around Mars also seemed to have been affected by abnormal rules. But this impact does not come from the present, but from billions of years ago. I cannot be sure that the technology that created my technology cannot peek at the secrets of the laws of the universe."
"Billions of years?" Du Xingyu was shocked. He thought of some key things, but he was not sure yet.
"If more evidence of the existence of life can be found on Mars, then there is really a possibility..." Du Xingyu thought to himself.
The next day, Du Xingyu was woken up by his teammates. Several people knocked on his door with excitement on their faces and said, "Captain, you have a big discovery!"
"What did you find?" Du Xingyu yawned and asked in a daze.
"We have discovered Mars' life!" Xu Rui shouted.
"What?" Du Xingyu was shocked and suddenly lost all sleepiness, and asked, "Is this true?"
"It's true!" Shen Yan said excitedly, "Last night, Xu Lianqiu didn't sleep all night. When analyzing a soil sample at the bottom of the lake, he found living microorganisms!"
Du Xingyu looked at Xu Lianqiu. Although she had not slept all night, her pretty face was extremely excited and said, "Really, come and see!"
Du Xingyu hurried over and under a high-power electron microscope, several rod-shaped microorganisms were exchanging matter.
"There are really living microorganisms!" Du Xingyu took a deep breath. This was definitely a major discovery in the 21st century!
Xu Lianqiu nodded and said, "Yes, according to my observations and research, this should be a methanogenic bacteria. It is a strictly anaerobic microorganism that can convert inorganic or organic compounds into methane and carbon dioxide!"
"On Earth, methanogens are paleomic organisms, and I don't know how similar it is to the methanogens on Earth."
"Living microorganisms!" Su Peng said excitedly, "Our discovery is about to change the world! Life also exists on Mars! Doesn't this mean that life is not a specialty of the earth?"
"Xiaoqiu, you are so awesome!" Jiao Mengyun hugged Xu Lianqiu excitedly.
"Sure enough, there is life on Mars!" Du Xingyu murmured to himself, his expression suddenly became solemn. He was a little more sure of his guess last night.
"Captain?" Everyone looked at him in confusion.
"Say it to the Space Administration first!" Du Xingyu said, "Xu Lianqiu, you report."
"Yes!" Everyone contacted the earth immediately.
It took more than four minutes before their news reached the earth.
"What? They discovered the living Martian microorganisms!" The entire China Space Administration was ignited by this news!
"This is a shocking discovery!" He Jingcheng held the phone in his hand and said to the space agency leader Cao Liang: "We will change our views on alien life. The existence of alien life finally has direct evidence!"
"I'll be back soon!" Cao Liang was having a meeting in another place at this time. When he heard the news, he immediately set off to return to the space agency. He knew that this would be a major discovery that would change the world!
"We need to know more news!" The biologists and space researchers who learned the news were also so excited that they wanted to fly to Mars to study the methanogen.
"Xu Lianqiu, you must protect it! If there is a methanogen, there will be a second microorganism, and there may even be other higher-level living organisms!" Liu Yuan reminded.
Chapter completed!