The landing spacecraft passed through the thin atmosphere of Mars and landed in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
The four members of the scientific expedition team are Gao Yuxi, the leader is Gao Yuxi, and the other three are soldiers from the Mars Fleet of the Space Force.
Gao Yuxi and others did not enter the anti-charge cabin. The main reason is that the atmospheric concentration of Mars is low and the gravity is not as strong as the Blue Star. Therefore, the spacecraft landing spacecraft does not need to enter the anti-load cabin.
Ignoring the matter of the spaceship, how to drive the spaceship to the Greek Basin was the job of the three Space Force soldiers.
She is looking at information about Mars.
The diameter of Mars is about half that of Blue Star, its volume is 15%, and its mass is 11%. Its surface area is equivalent to the land area of Blue Star, and its density is much smaller than the other three terrestrial planets in the solar system (Blue Star, Venus, and Mercury).
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In terms of radius, mass, and surface gravity, Mars is about halfway between the Blue Star and the Moon: the diameter of Mars is about 2 times that of the Moon and 1/2 that of Blue Star; its mass is about 9 times that of the Moon and 1/9 that of Blue Star.
The surface gravity is about 2.5 times that of the moon and 2/5 that of the blue star.
In addition, the southern hemisphere where the Greek Basin is located is mainly composed of ancient mountains, plateaus, and impact craters.
The Northern Hemisphere is dominated by relatively young plains.
Gao Yuxi didn't pay much attention to these data. Humans had detected these data in the AD era, but the data she really cared about was the data detected by the Listening satellite.
Using atomic-level precision data, the Mars underground model is modeled layer by layer.
On the side, paleontologist, geologist, nuclear physicist, and science fiction writer Zhang Haiyang were also looking at these stratigraphic data.
He was about to say something.
[Attention, the spacecraft is about to land.]
The spaceship paused slightly.
[The spacecraft has landed successfully, welcome to Mars-Greek Basin 001 Outpost.]
Outpost 001 is on a small plain in the middle of the Hellenic Basin.
This base has 67 simple space capsules, 1 communication base station, 1 small Jinwu reactor, 1 neutrino radar station, 1 multi-purpose airport, 20 stand-in robots, and 240 multi-function robots.
And most importantly the nanorobot factory.
Although Mars has an atmosphere, it is mainly composed of carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide, which is not suitable for new humans to breathe.
So everyone is wearing aerospace exoskeleton armor.
If you don’t want to wear a heavy aerospace exoskeleton armor, you can also activate the alien planet automatic adaptation mode in the biocomputer, which will allow you to adapt to the Martian environment in three days.
After a series of tests, Gao Yuxi and Zhang Haiyang finally set foot on Mars.
The blue sun is hanging high in the sky, and there are two satellites, one large and one small, one gray "potato" and one the size of a coin, which are Phobos and Deimos.
After entering the base, everyone removed their exoskeleton armor.
001 Outpost consists of two parts, namely the work area and the living area, with only one passage for transportation in both areas.
Three Space Force soldiers went to check the equipment and living material reserves at the outpost, because they need to live here for about half a year.
Gao Yuxi and Zhang Haiyang, the four of them, settled their luggage and their respective dormitories, and eagerly came to the work area.
The outpost had been operating automatically before, and artificial intelligence controlled the robot to conduct exploration and sampling work for more than 100 kilometers around it.
At this time, thousands of samples collected by robots from the surroundings are stored inside the work area.
Zhang Haiyang picked up a piece of sedimentary rock with something similar to coral fossils on it and put it into the age detection equipment not far away.
[Sedimentary rocks: 377.36 to 377.39 million years]
There are many sedimentary rock fossils like this, and most of the biological fossils above are invertebrates.
Huang Fan, a virus and microbiologist on the side, was observing rows of gel petri dishes. The virtual display screen displayed 54 types of viruses, 27 types of bacteria, and 3 types of fungi found in the outpost.
"This is a failed planet for life." Gao Yuxi put down the document and said.
Zhang Haiyang nodded: "It is true. The invertebrates and plants on Mars completely broke apart after 310 million years."
"At least some microorganisms survived." Huang Fan said with a smile.
However, as a science fiction writer, Zhang Haiyang frowned as he was thinking about the reasons for the mass extinction of life on Mars.
Then I thought of the gap in the Nibelung spaceship.
There are too many secrets in the solar system, and the truth hidden behind these secrets is always terrifying and terrifying.
Gao Yuxi looked at Zhang Haiyang who was in a daze, waved his hand in front of him and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"Oh... I'm thinking about the mass extinction of life on Mars."
"Worrying about the big filter" Gao Yuxi obviously saw the other party's worries.
Zhang Haiyang nodded.
"Ocean, you are worrying too much. The Great Filter is of little use to today's new humans. Low-level attacks are of little use. Unless there are supernova explosions, black holes, vacuum decay, or the invasion of advanced cosmic civilizations near us, we can handle it.
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"If it is a mass extinction caused by natural factors, I would not worry. The key is human factors." Zhang Haiyang has a delusional thought of being persecuted.
"Okay! Instead of worrying about this and that here, it's better to do down-to-earth research." Huang Fan, an optimist, patted Zhang Haiyang on the shoulder.
"That's true."
When arranging the staffing of the scientific expedition team, the scientific committee fully considered the personalities and characteristics of each team member.
For example, Gao Yuxi is calm and collected, Zhang Haiyang has wild ideas but has delusions of being persecuted, Huang Fan is an optimist, and Jiang Zhiren is loyal and low-key.
Letting team members have complementary personalities is something that the Scientific Committee needs to fully consider.
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The mass extinction event on Mars is one of the destinations of the scientific expedition team's visit to Mars this time. Another mission is to study the microorganisms on Mars.
Huang Fan used instruments to isolate the virus strain from the culture medium and injected it into a fist-sized meat ball.
The meat ball is a scientific research aid item jointly developed by Simbeck and Lin Sha. It is called "Virus Function Test Body". It is a cloned tissue that imitates the human body. With the addition of biological computer and cell robotics technology, it can test the function of the virus.
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In fact, it is similar to the living mice, chimpanzees and the like used in general biological laboratories, except that the reaction of viruses and bacteria entering the flesh ball is 99.99% similar to the reaction of entering the new human body.
After all, mice, chimpanzees and new humans are different species after all, and using real people for experiments is not only too risky, but can also easily cause unnecessary trouble.
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The virus injected into the meat ball is numbered [Mars-Greece-00024].
On the physical sign detector on one side, rows of data are refreshing, including heartbeat, blood pressure, blood sugar, hormones, body temperature, acid-base, salt balance, brain waves, antibody and virus levels, etc.
This is equivalent to conducting direct human experiments, and the safety is very high.
[Injection for 2 hours: The degree of infection is mild, the virus is affinity to lung cells, has no obvious attack tendency, and is a semi-parasitic type...]
Huang Fan was doing experiments and sorting out the data.
The study of native viruses on Mars is very important. Although new humans can now ignore most viruses, it does not mean that they can be arrogant and think that the universe is invincible.