Super industrial overlord

Chapter 471 Organic matter

Although it can be said that this exploration of Mars has gained a lot, but the Mars exploration operation has not actually completed the more difficult tasks they will have next.

That is to further explore whether there is life on Mars, and will also be responsible for the initial engineering of the Mars base.

Because the Ziwei Xing 1 space exploration ship discovered a large amount of energy crystal ore in the crater and surrounding areas of the 18th area of ​​​​the North Pole of Mars, Zhang Yi and scientists from various countries on the moon unanimously decided to directly prepare for the 18th area. In the crater, build a base on Mars.

At the same time, since a large number of energy crystals were discovered in the area of ​​Mars 18, after the proven reserves, the lunar base dispatched more than 30 Overlord gun-level aerospace planes, carrying a large amount of materials and mining equipment, and are rushing to Mars .

Although it is said that using an aerospace plane to go to Mars is quite dangerous on the way, but fortunately, the Ziweixing 1 spacecraft has put a large number of navigation satellites, detection satellites, etc. on the way, and the dangers to be encountered in the picture have been captured It has been reduced to the lowest level, so even the aerospace plane has the ability to fly to Mars.

Just when the lunar base sent a large number of aerospace planes to Mars, the Ziwei Xing 1 space exploration ship began to further explore Mars, and the focus of this exploration was hundreds of meters below the ice layer at the North Pole of Mars. The night is too deep under the water to see if there is really life on Mars.

Due to the different focus of this exploration, a large amount of materials were loaded into the space plane. At the same time, the space plane carried on the ship also went back and forth between Mars and the Ziwei Star 1 spacecraft again and again.

Although it is said that the displacement of Ziweixing 1 spacecraft is only about 4000 tons, in fact, the total amount of material contained in Ziweixing 1 spacecraft is far more than 4000 tons. After all, Ziweixing 1 scientific research ship is A real spaceship, not a ship on the sea.

If it is a ship on the sea, if the displacement is only more than 4000 tons, it is already very remarkable to be able to carry more than 1000 tons of materials. If the total weight of the materials carried exceeds the limit of the existence of the ship, then the transmission will not be able to float at all. on the water.

However, the spaceship is different. If the weight exceeds the limit of the universe when it just took off from the moon, then the spaceship will not be able to fly, but once the spaceship enters space, then the weight is meaningless. Just like Wang Wei's Ziweixing No. 1 space research ship, its displacement is only about 4000 tons, but the weight of the materials they carried on this trip has far exceeded 1 tons.

Among the tens of thousands of tons of materials, there are not only exploration equipment, experimental equipment, drilling equipment, etc., but also a large amount of construction materials.

Since Wang Wei and the others carried only one aerospace plane on this trip, it took more than a week to transport these materials to Mars.

After all, Mars is not the earth. In the process of carrying materials, aerospace aircraft not only have to load materials in the weightless environment of space, but after landing on Mars, especially in the polar regions of Mars, the temperature is very low, which greatly increases Difficulty for them to transport supplies.

When all the materials were transported to Mars, after the 18th area, the personnel in the entire Ziwei Star 1 spacecraft, except for the most basic on-duty personnel, all came to Mars to prepare for the inspection of the 18th area. An ice formation, drill deeper.

"Attention everyone, the sample we are going to take this time is located in the liquid object 500 meters below the ice layer, so the difficulty of drilling this time is a bit high, I hope everyone will start as soon as possible." When they came to the predetermined ice layer , Wang Wei said to everyone.

"Start the equipment!" Following Wang Wei's order, Renyuan, who was in charge of operating the drilling equipment, pressed the start switch of the equipment, and the drilling machine's head began to rotate slowly, and the speed changed from slow to fast. When the speed reached After a certain level, the rotary head began to touch the ice layer. Under the high-speed rotation of the drill bit, countless ice chips were brought out by the high-speed rotating drill bit, and most of the ice chips began to gradually become smaller and finally disappeared.

Although it is not easy to drill on Mars, after a few days of hard work this year, they have successfully cut through the thick ice layer of the North Pole of Mars, and turned their heads and successfully penetrated below the ice layer on the surface of the North Pole of Mars. , the liquid matter region

However, just as experts such as the moon base and Xiang Juncai expected, after Wang Wei and the others successfully drilled through the ice layer, the liquid object below was indeed liquid carbon dioxide, not water, and then they continued to descend. drill.

Then they drilled another layer of ice, but obviously, the hardness of this layer of ice is far less than that of the ice layer on the surface of Mars, and the difficulty of turning the drilling equipment is much easier.

When Wang Wei and his drilling equipment drilled to about 400 meters above the surface, the whole state equipment made a beep, and then there was no such heavy-duty sound as before. The whole mechanical equipment operated very easily, as if there was no sound at all. Like a burden.

In response to such a situation, the drilling experts brought by Wang Wei and the others immediately said: "Captain, according to our experience, we have already drilled through the second layer of ice and successfully reached the second underground layer. area."

"Immediately test the elemental properties of the liquid substance on the second floor underground. Is it water or liquid carbon dioxide?" Wang Wei immediately ordered.

"Yes! Captain."

Since the equipment they carried at this time is very sound, the detection of liquid objects will soon produce results. As expected, the liquid substances in the second underground layer are really the long-awaited source of life, that is, water. .

"Oh yeah, that's great, we finally found liquid water on Mars." When the test results came out, both Wang Wei and other personnel shouted excitedly on the spot.

However, before they were happy, the person who had just tested said again: "Captain, the results of our test not only confirm whether it is the water we have been waiting for for a long time, but also the test data show that there is no water in the water. There are some organic matter in the middle, that is to say, life exists in more than 80% of the deep subsurface at the North Pole of Mars."

"Really? During the detection process, did we really detect organic matter? If it is true, then we have really discovered a remarkable thing, which is likely to change our understanding of Mars."

(End of this chapter)