Next to the giant crater between Mount Elysian and Mount Olympus in southeastern Mars is a flat and open area.

It can be seen that this flat area has been transformed by human civilization and has transformed into a take-off and landing platform for a spacecraft.

"Boom~"

It seems that the roar of the propulsion system can be heard.

The powerful airflow instantly rolled up the rolling red dust all over the sky.

A spacecraft that looks very technologically shaped is slowly landing on the take-off and landing platform.

This is the "Future" interstellar spacecraft that crosses the starry sea and flies to Mars from the distant earth.

By the way, strictly speaking, it is not yet a star spacecraft, it is just an unfinished product.

The team of scientists and engineers at the Mars base, who had been waiting far away from the platform, waited until the orange dust slightly receded, and then walked forward and lined up to welcome the compatriots on Earth who came from afar.

After nearly five years of continuous construction, the Mars base has begun to show its scale.

At present, there are more than 200 scientists and engineers resident here.

The address of the Mars Base is not elsewhere, it is the giant crater where Yuan Hashichen discovered [The Source of Creation].

However, today's craters have long transformed into their former appearance.

At first glance, you can find that the top of the crater has been completely surrounded by a transparent protective cover with extremely high strength metal lattice structure. It not only can isolate radiation from the Martian base, but also has a good insulation effect, but can also block the invasion of small stones and sandstorms on the Martian surface.

The top of the protective cover is a huge planar structure, with eighteen tracks set up on it to ensure daily maintenance work. In this way, simple operation of the robot can complete the repair and dust cleaning work on the top of the protective cover.

The space at the bottom of the giant crater is very large. The road to the bottom of the crater discovered by Yuan Naichen and others had been comprehensively widened, reinforced and transformed. Now it has become the main entrance and exit of the entire Mars base, which can meet the smooth entry and exit of various models of transportation.

The four walls and bottom of the crater have also been specially treated to ensure airtightness and prevent the threat of some harmful substances from the underground.

Within the base, that is, the bottom of the crater, it is designed to be divided into ten areas, each area has corresponding planning functions.

However, due to the tight time, the Mars Base has just completed the first phase of construction task.

Therefore, only three areas have been built and their main task is to create the necessary conditions for the research of [The Source of Creation].

The construction work in other areas is still under discussion.

In the current scope of Earth civilization, Mars is still a distant planet far away from Earth. It is indeed an amazing thing for humans to build such a huge Mars base in just five years.

All of this confirms the old saying - unity is strength!

When people all over the world concentrate their efforts to work in one direction, they can indeed show amazing power and create great miracles.

After the first phase of the Mars Base is completed, the base will begin to try to create various daily supplies on its own. The earth will continue to drop all necessary supplies to Mars until the Mars Base can be fully self-sufficient.

Around the Mars base is a newly built, extremely large array of solar panels.

The Mars base will rely on solar energy to maintain the daily power supply of the base. When there are continuous harsh weather, nuclear energy will need to rely on additional energy guarantees for the base. However, nuclear fuel cannot be collected from the Mars base for the time being, and they all come from the earth.

The Mars base has completed two water resource production lines.

On the production line, professional equipment can obtain about one liter of water for every 0.03 cubic meters of Martian soil. This is enough to meet the base's self-supply requirements. Solving the water supply problem can greatly reduce the operating costs of the Martian base and increase the "elastic" space for humans to move on this red planet.

At the same time, with liquid water, scientists began to use electrolysis technology to decompose water into hydrogen and oxygen. Although people all over the world know that the cost of making oxygen in this way is too high, human survival is definitely inseparable from oxygen, and this resource is very scarce on Mars.

This is indeed the best solution at present, because no matter how you calculate it, the way to collect oxygen by electrolyzing water is much more cost-effective than dropping oxygen tanks from the earth. Moreover, the hydrogen produced by electrolyzing water can also be used as fuel, so this deal is still considered a conversion on Mars.

Next, agricultural scientists will start to transform the Martian soil inside the base. Because most Martian soils are not suitable for plant growth, and the soil contains a large amount of harmful elements such as lead, mercury, and arsenic. If crops absorb these elements, the fruits produced will also have certain toxicity.

There is also good news in the results of soil tests. Martian soil is rich in nitrates, which is a good fertilizer. If the soil is properly prepared and watered properly, the first batch of green plants and crops will grow in the Martian base.

By that time, plant photosynthesis will greatly alleviate the problem of oxygen scarcity and form a simple ecological cycle.

In addition, the base scientists have also discovered many valuable resources in Martian sand, especially the rich iron and silicon. The mining plans for various metal mineral resources are already actively trying.

When the Mars base scientifically produces various raw materials, 3D printing robots can use these raw materials to continuously create various building consumables.

If everything goes well, the Mars base will surely become more and more perfect, and will continue to grow and grow, becoming an outpost for Earth civilization to explore the universe.

Of course, the prerequisite for all is that human society and earth civilization can continue smoothly

This time, there are 20 other scientists and engineers who arrived at the Mars base with Harashi Chen (the short-term voyage does not require personnel restrictions, and the long journey is not suitable for carrying too many astronauts). They will participate in the final phase of the transformation of the "Future" spacecraft. After the transformation is completed, most of them will continue to stay on Mars and participate in the construction of the next phase of the Mars base.

"Buzz"

The cabin door of the "Future" spacecraft slowly unfolded.
Chapter completed!