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Chapter 4 Exploring the Ice Spring Vents

"All actions follow the command!" Chen Qiang said.

"Yes." We responded in unison.

"Li Canyue, Lao Du, Duoduo and I set off to the edge of the jet port to conduct sampling work. Maldo and Zhang Baoer drove another kangaroo car to survey the smooth area, calculate the surrounding terrain, and find suitable drilling positions.

The duration will not exceed 12 hours. Wait for further instructions. Everyone's radios should be turned on at any time and kept open. Jiajia will feedback the situation to the mothership at any time. The time is limited. I always feel that the environment here is not very stable and the task must be completed as soon as possible. All

People are leaving immediately!" Chen Qiang finished deploying the action plan.

We quickly slid into the safe passage and entered the kangaroo car. The kangaroo car uses the most advanced deformation protection function, which can adapt well to different terrain environments and protect the passengers in the car. The wheels use 6 huge spherical wheels, and

It can carry out deformation protection in complex environments and different temperatures to ensure the driving stability of the vehicle.

"The safety cabin has been disinfected and isolated, the personnel have been disinfected and isolated, ensure sterility, and are allowed to leave the cabin." Following Jiajia's announcement, the outer cabin door of the spacecraft opened, Europa, here I come!

What came face to face was a pure white world. In the cross zone area where our spacecraft was staying, the entire ice surface was extremely smooth. The ice cones growing from the edge of the ice surface towered into the sky, interlocking and blocking the view of the sky. In the ice cones

In the gap, Jupiter's huge body is looming, and there is an area where the Great Red Spot can be seen completely. The high-speed rotating Great Red Spot is like an eye of Satan, staring at outsiders like us.

"The temperature is minus 180 degrees, the wind speed is 400 kilometers per hour, the ice thickness is 50 kilometers, the driving level is safe, the space radiation level is high, the distance to the jet port is estimated to be 60 kilometers, and the driving time is 75 minutes." Duoduo read out the external environment data.

To be honest, when I was sitting in the car, I could clearly feel the sound of the strong wind hitting the outer shell of the kangaroo car. Relying on the light reflected by Jupiter, I could see a strange white ice cap around it. The strong wind blew over the ice cap over and over again.

The ice cap appears spotless.

The space environment is very harsh. If you ask me if I am nervous, I can honestly tell you that I am not.

This may be the sense of security that technology brings to human beings. Under the premise of equipment with super protection skills, any difficulties and obstacles are just a process in my eyes.

The car gradually drove towards the edge of the ice cap, and in the distance you could see the sky in the distance filled with icy wafer-like wafer objects.

"After entering the injection area, the visibility is 0. We will confirm whether we need to leave the cabin and land for sampling, or directly take samples from the equipment, depending on the situation," Chen Qiang said.

At the same time, Chen Qiang also ordered Maldo and the others not to leave the cabin unless necessary, but to focus on survey data first. The first task of leaving the cabin must be completed by our team. I think Chen Qiang also sacrificed one of his own ideas to protect everyone.

To be honest, I really want to be the Armstrong of Europa, but with the system in place, it will definitely not be my turn to be the first to leave the cabin and make the first footprints.

The car drove towards the edge of the ice sheet. After about 10 minutes of smooth driving, the whole car suddenly shook. It seemed that a huge force pushed the car upwards and off the ground. The car landed steadily on its spherical wheels.

But the sudden situation shocked everyone.

"I'm going, what's going on?" I shouted.

Duoduo turned on the infrared detector and laser detector at the same time and conducted a comprehensive scan of the surrounding environment. Lao Du and I were responsible for using the visual telescope detection system to scan the environment around the car body, but still found nothing.

"This planet is too unstable. It is possible that there is a violent vibration zone under our feet, which will drive the movement of the entire planet." Lao Du said.

"This guy's knowledge base is really good at copying and pasting." I thought to myself.

"Because our kangaroo car came over and changed the pressure for hundreds of millions of years. This ice sheet has probably only withstood the pressure of strong winds for hundreds of millions of years. When we came, the kangaroo car weighing more than ten tons completely changed the surrounding pressure environment.

, the balance was broken by us." Adu continued.

"Yes, I have the same view." Chen Qiang continued: "But this reminds us that we must complete the task quickly. The external natural environment is very severe, so we must fight quickly!"

Suddenly, the data screen frantically displayed a series of vibration data. The data showed that the wheel was being severely impacted by external pressure. The balanced deformation protection technology protected the stable operation of the wheel, but the wheel was impacted by a huge external pressure. The impact showed that the air pressure had

Reaching 255 kPa.

As we all know, the normal pressure on the seaside of Blue Star is only 1 kilopascal. The huge pressure hits the kangaroo car crazily, and then every less than one minute, the car body receives a huge impact and bounces up. However, the data shows that the external natural

The environment remains unchanged.

"It's really a ghost. Are there any monsters?" I asked.

"The current phenomenon is difficult to explain in physics. This kind of external force appears crazily without external changes. I analyze that it may be caused by powerful dark matter, but what is incomprehensible is why the pressure brought by dark matter only targets the wheels.

It’s not just about the car body, we need to continue to observe,” Duoduo said.

(Note: Dark matter is a theoretically proposed invisible substance that may exist in the universe. It may be the main component of matter in the universe, but it does not belong to any known substance that constitutes visible celestial bodies. A large number of astronomy

The phenomenon that is suspected of violating Newton's universal gravitation found in observations can be well explained assuming the existence of dark matter)

At present, the car is running normally, and powerful technology guarantees strong survivability. Captain Chen Qiang ordered to continue moving forward. The kangaroo car continued to drive forward despite the strong wind, maintaining a peculiar state of jumping and jumping under huge pressure.

go.

After the vehicle drove for half an hour, Captain Chen Qiang contacted Maldo. Maldo had already surveyed 2 points. The thickness of the ice sheet in the intersection area was about 50 kilometers. No place where the ice cover was thinner was found. At the same time, Maldo did not

We have not encountered the problem of dark matter pressure shock and bouncing, only we have.

Jiajia, the robot who stayed behind on the Death Star, reported that the spacecraft had been hit by inexplicable phenomena more than 10 times. The situation was similar to ours, but the pressure change was not obvious.

Regarding three different external situations in one area, Jiajia has already fed back the data to the mothership, and the mothership is waiting for continuous data analysis.

The Saturn is monitoring our actions at all times. Ahn'Qiraj and Captain Chen Qiang also had direct dialogue and authorization. The captain confirmed the operational command so far.

At this time, new trouble came again. The vehicle's energy consumption prompt issued an alarm. The system showed that the energy loss rate was 50% faster than expected due to huge pressure and impact. At this rate, after some calculations, the entire kangaroo car

It can only last for 40 hours.

Assuming that the injection area may have greater pressure than the ice cover area, and relying on vehicle equipment for sampling will only accelerate the energy consumption of the kangaroo car, resulting in a mismatch between the vehicle energy time and the protective suit time, and may even cause energy

The situation where the car cannot be driven back to the spaceship.

There are indeed too many uncertain factors in the universe, but at this moment, it is impossible to look back.

"Keep going!" Chen Qiang ordered.

The vehicle continued to move forward under pressure, and soon entered the edge of the ice sheet. Since the icy objects ejected from the jet nozzle blocked the sky, the foreseeable visibility had turned to zero after entering the jet area. In this case,

It is no longer possible for ordinary light to penetrate, so laser penetration guidance technology must be used to find a route forward.

An hour and a half later, we reached the edge area and entered a completely black area. What was strange was that the tire pressure was still there, but the impact suddenly stopped.

Through laser guidance and analysis of the deciphered video, we found that the air is filled with red and white ice slag-like substances. At the same time, the enlargement shows that all ice flocculation substances, regardless of size, have the characteristics of toothed ice cones and are shaped like sea urchins.

The edge is very sharp, and the red substance seems to be attached to the ice flakes. The two substances appear to be different substances mixed together.

Next, we need to carry out sampling and route exploration. From the display, the entire dark area is full of jets. The distance between each jet is no more than 5 meters, which can barely support the passage of a kangaroo car.

However, after careful observation, we can clearly see that about one-fourth of the ejection ports in the returned images do not eject material, while the ejection ports with ejected material have very fast output speeds, reaching 100

km/h, so it is very dangerous.

The data returned from the thermometer shows that the temperature here is higher than outside, reaching between minus 80 and minus 100 degrees, and the wind speed has dropped to 200 kilometers per hour. The thickness of the ice sheet is about 100 kilometers, and the data shows that it can support wearable devices.

Walking outdoors, soon the kangaroo car came under a closed jet.

"Let's make it clear," Chen Qiang suddenly said: "Lao Du and Duoduo are responsible for using the kangaroo car collection equipment to collect samples of objects in the sky and provide support. Li Canyue will follow me, and we will explore the depth of the jet and collect ground samples.

.”

Chen Qiang's order was unquestionable, and we immediately took action quickly. Chen Qiang, the mothership, Jiajia, and Maldo transmitted information via radio voice and took me to the hatch.

"Don't be nervous, young man!" Chen Qiang comforted me.

"I'm fine, I promise to complete the task," I replied firmly.

After sterility confirmation, the hatch slowly opens. 4.5 billion years after the birth of the universe, Blue Star people will set foot on the land of Europa for the first time in history.

This planet carries countless legends of the Blue Star people, and was once the first choice for the Blue Star people to search for extraterrestrial life in the solar system. Many novels describe that there are big octopuses and big sharks in the deep sea under the ice cap, but they only exist in

Imagination.

But today, Europa and the Blue Star people finally arrived.

"The representative person is me, Li Canyue, haha!" I thought excitedly.

After the hatch was opened, the strong wind from outside brought the ice and flakes directly in. Although our equipment has a very stable body and balance ability, I can also feel the wind speed and the strong force of the impact.

The visibility is actually zero. We observe the surrounding environment through the converted data image of the helmet, but we still turn on the searchlight, mainly to prevent alien creatures from seeing us.

Captain Chen Qiang was seen taking a steady and solid step with his left foot, stepping on the ground of Europa.

This is a small step for Chen Qiang, but a big step for the Blue Star people. Europa was finally conquered by the Blue Star people. All the images were quickly transmitted back to the mothership and back to the Blue Star. This was an unprecedented step for the Blue Star people.
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