Chapter 641: The source of life, water three
"Report! The equipment has been inspected! All personnel and equipment are in good condition and can be out of the cabin at any time!" After the inspection, as the person in charge of the landing and the pilot of the plane, Peng Ming immediately replied to the Dijiang!
"Very good! According to the data, the temperature outside the aircraft is now minus 104 degrees below zero! It is suitable for out-of-cabin activities. Now I order to open the cabin door and perform the task!" Captain Qiu immediately ordered after receiving the reply from the crew.
With Captain Qiu's order, under the gaze of all the personnel in the cabin, the aircraft's tail cabin door was slowly opened.
As the tail cabin was opened, all the personnel in the cabin slowly arrived shoulder to shoulder to meet the aircraft cabin door and the Mars ground, and finally took the first step of human civilization stepping onto Mars.
When everyone took this step, everyone cheered loudly in the communication device, and as there were still people inside, they said loudly that this was a small step for us and a big step for human civilization.
In response, Captain Qiu shook his head, but did not stop these people, but listened quietly to their cheers.
He knows these young people so well. You must know that the people who landed on Mars this time are all born in the 1990s and 2000s. Naturally, they are much more free and easy than him, the 1970s, and they are much more energetic. After all, are they young people?
If they don’t cheer at this time, then he must carefully consider whether these young people can really bear the future of human civilization.
After cheering for a while, the young people in the communication device finally stopped and their mission to land on Mars sounded. They all returned to the Phoenix-type spacecraft, and drove several special Mars rovers out of the cabin.
Although these rovers are basically not very large in size, after all, where is the cabin of the Phoenix-One Skyplane? If the rover is too huge, it is impossible to get into the cabin of the Phoenix-One Skyplane.
But it is not small, and it can even be the same size as ordinary off-road vehicles on Earth.
These Mars rovers not only look very water chestnut and domineering, but also look very safe.
In fact, this is true. Although these rovers don’t look big, the weight of each rover reaches more than a dozen tons.
The reason why there is such a heavy weight is actually because of this and the future mission. The shell of this Mars rover is the latest armored steel developed by Wang Bin and Tiangong Technology, and the same is true for glass, and it is also their latest product.
At the same time, the interior of the Mars rover, like other universe and alien planet exploration equipment, has complete oxygen life maintenance and circulation equipment, which not only ensures the safety of internal personnel, but also maintains the survival security of internal personnel for a considerable period of time.
The most important thing is that these Mars rovers actually have certain attack capabilities. When encountering an emergency, these Mars rovers can also attack threatening targets.
Finally, there is the Mars rover. In addition to the above functions, it is also equipped with various scientific research and detection equipment, such as soil collection equipment, rock fragmentation equipment, ground detection equipment, and deep drilling equipment.
Each vehicle can carry up to a large number of equipment and can also carry 4 to 8 members, which is a rare transportation tool on Mars.
This time, this Phoenix-type space shuttle carries four such Mars rovers, which means that these Mars rovers can carry up to 32 members in total. In other words, if these Mars rovers encounter danger, they can take all of them away at one time.
As the small rover quickly drove out of the aircraft's cabin, the tracks of these rovers immediately added up to the Martian ground, leaving traces of tracks after the rover.
As the Mars rover left the cabin, the astronauts who landed on Mars this time officially began various missions on Mars, such as collecting soil and rocks within five kilometers of the surrounding area, as well as collecting specific data on various terrain and landforms within a few kilometers, drilling for shallow underground conditions, etc.
In addition, as the person in charge of this mission, Peng Ming's task is much heavier than the tasks of others. The task he wants to perform is to go to an underground lake area near the landing point for drilling, and the depth must reach at least the underground liquid area, that is, about two kilometers underground.
Naturally, he had no complaints about this, but took on the mission happily. So after landing, he drove a Mars rover specially equipped with drilling equipment to the area and immediately started drilling.
But when he started drilling, he found that his task was much more difficult than he thought. After all, before the beginning, although he was ready to encounter difficulties, he never thought that the difficulties he encountered just now were at the beginning of the task.
That is, the underground hardness of the underground lake area was far beyond his expectations, and he was very clear about this. The reason is that the temperature of Mars is very low, even when it was close to noon on Mars, the temperature in its Antarctic was below zero or 100 degrees below zero.
At such a temperature, the hardness of the ice is very hard. Even the drill bit of the drilling equipment is made of very hard special steel. The drilling speed is very slow, and the loss of the drill bit is beyond his expectations.
After nearly an hour of drilling, his rover only drilled less than a hundred meters on the ice of the underground lake in the South Pole of Mars, which made him a little anxious.
After all, according to the data from the previous detector, the average thickness of the ice layer of the underground lake, that is, where he is, has reached more than two kilometers. Even if the ice layer in his area is the thinnest, its thick bottom is more than 1.5 kilometers.
If you continue to drill at this speed, it will take at least a few days to get to a place less than one kilometer.
After all, according to the plan, they only work two to three hours a day, so at this speed, they can only work at a depth of two or three hundred meters a day.
His previous scheduled drilling time was just a day, so he was very depressed.
Chapter completed!