super island tycoon

Chapter 665
The terrain where the astronauts are now is very flat, and there are not many terrain undulations around them, so they will not encounter any obstacles to develop around.

And the geological structure here is also very good, able to withstand the construction of various buildings.

The most important thing is that there is a high-quality shallow iron vein not far from here.

This iron ore is basically located on the surface, and mining is very simple, and you can see the veins without digging too deep.

Moreover, the iron content of iron ore is also very high, even surpassing the highest quality iron ore on earth.

The smelting and processing of this ultra-high-quality iron ore is very simple and easy to obtain finished steel.

You must know that steel is the most basic industrial raw material. As long as there is steel, many things can be processed on Mars without having to be transported from the distant earth.

Jiang Cheng finally chose this place as the address of the Mars base because of this high-quality shallow iron vein.

This iron ore vein is simply too rare, mining and smelting are so easy.

If this mine lode is on the earth, I don't know how many companies will loot it.

It's a pity that there are not such good iron ore veins on the earth, and those companies can only watch jealously on the earth.

This is the benefit of developing outer space. This is just Mars, which is the closest to the earth, and it already has such good mineral resources.

And there is more than just this one vein of minerals on Mars, there are many excellent minerals waiting to be developed there.

Things like iron ore are only in high demand for building bases, and they are of real value.Not too high.

At the very least, the iron ore mined from Mars cannot be transported back to the earth to sell for money. It is simply a brain-dead behavior to transport such worthless things as iron ore back over such a long distance.

The price of transporting love alone is countless times higher than the price of iron ore, and it is not worth transporting back to Earth at all.

But this is not to say that it is meaningless to develop Mars. Iron ore is worthless, but there are valuable things on Mars.

During the last detailed exploration of Mars, Jiang Cheng found several platinum veins on Mars.

The gold reserves of these platinum veins on Mars far exceed the largest platinum mines on Earth, and the difficulty of mining is lower than that of the veins on Earth.

If Jiang Cheng establishes a base on Mars, he can start mining platinum on Mars.

Platinum is a very precious metal. The reserves on the earth are very low, so the price has always remained high.

The platinum reserves on Mars have been detected to be dozens of times that of the earth, so it is still very promising to mine platinum on Mars.

Although judging from the current transportation costs from Mars to Earth, it is still a bit of a loss to transport platinum back.

However, technology is constantly improving, and the cost of space transportation in the future will definitely continue to decline.

Jiang Cheng's new rocket has been under research and development. After this rocket is developed, the cost of space transportation will drop again.

It is estimated that by the time platinum can be mined on Mars, transportation costs will be reduced to a profitable level.

At that time, Jiang Cheng can rely on this to make money, and a steady stream of platinum will flood the market on the earth.

Maybe the price of platinum will drop due to the mining of Mars, but the significance of transporting platinum back from Mars is still great.

Platinum has very high stability and is very suitable for use as an industrial raw material

Therefore, platinum, a precious metal, can not only be used as jewelry, but also has great practical value.

Jiang Cheng knows that many aerospace vehicles in the future will need to use a lot of platinum.

If you just rely on the earth to buy, even with Jiang Cheng's wealth, it is not enough to meet the demand for so much platinum.

And the platinum on Mars also solved this problem, which is one of Jiang Cheng's goals in developing Mars.

From here, we can see how barren the earth is. Compared with Liao's universe, the resources on the earth are not worth mentioning at all.

So going into space is the only way out for human beings, and there are countless resources waiting for human beings in the solar system alone.

Astronauts are busy making preparatory work on Mars, and the technicians on the earth are not idle.

The entire aerospace technology team is now in a tense and busy state, except that the Space Mission Center needs someone to monitor the situation on Mars.

The R&D team is also busy with their own work, they are doing the final technology research and development.

The establishment of a Mars base requires a lot of new technologies, and these technicians are now making preparations.

While the astronauts are working hard on Mars, the Space Umbrella Aerospace Technology Company is also busy with carbon.

Now that human beings have completely set foot on Mars, the first step of the Mars development plan can be regarded as successfully completed.

The next step is to initially establish a permanent base on Mars, which will be used as the base camp for the development of Mars.

This is the second step of the entire Mars development plan, and it is also the most important step in the entire plan.

If you want to carry out development work on Mars, and even realize Mars immigration in the future, you need a permanent Mars base.

First of all, this Mars base must be able to protect the humans living on Mars, at least it must be hard enough to resist accidents encountered on Mars.

And the Mars base must have a sufficient life support system to ensure the basic needs of humans on Mars

Oxygen production equipment is a must. Human beings cannot live for 10 minutes without oxygen, which is the first element of survival.It is best to keep some simple things in the base, which can also reduce the trouble of transportation.

In particular, the problem of food is best solved in the base. If the food for humans on Mars has to be transported from the earth, then the development of Mars is just a fantasy.

Only when this Mars base can achieve basic self-sufficiency can it provide guarantees for the development of Mars.

It is not an easy task to achieve this, and the entire R&D team is busy with it now.

The matter of building materials has been solved. Now many mining robots have been produced. As long as they are transported to Mars, they can continuously mine various ores.

The matching integrated melting and forging equipment, as well as maintenance robots were also manufactured.

It can be said that after a period of hard work, the materials needed to build a Mars base have basically been resolved.

But construction materials are only a small problem, and other problems are the most troublesome.

The most troublesome thing is the life support system of the base. This system is related to the safety of human life on Mars, but we can't joke about it.

(End of this chapter)