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Chapter 663 The Miracle of Life in the Asteroid Belt

As for the detection of Ceres, Dong Chen can't do it alone. Although Ceres is only a small dwarf planet, to Dong Chen it is a big thing with a diameter of nearly a thousand kilometers.

Even the 60-meter-high Andromeda is a small thing in front of it, let alone Dong Chen who is less than two meters tall.

Fortunately, Dong Chen has the power of science and technology, which can eliminate this difference in body shape to a certain extent.

One sheep is also chased, and two sheep are also herded. When manufacturing drilling equipment in Citizen World of Selling Ships, Dong Chen simply built a large number of detection satellites to assist in detection.

These dozens of hundreds of exploration satellites were released, they are of different sizes, and they are not disposable, they will be recovered after Dong Chen leaves or the exploration is completed, and they will be piled up in the warehouse of the ship-selling citizen waiting for the next time Use, or directly recycle the material, and then use it on other equipment.

When dozens or hundreds of detection satellites are circling Ceres non-stop at the same time, Dong Chen's research is much more convenient.They basically maintain a speed of 400 meters per second, and they can circle Ceres in a little over two hours, which is very efficient.

Among these advanced detection satellites, some are responsible for seeing through the geographical structure to see where there are cavities or cracks in rock formations, etc., which are the key scanning areas, and are responsible for exploring temperature display, element structure, radiation conditions, magnetic field, illumination, etc. With a series of data, No. [-] and Dong Chen can fully understand Ceres.

Segments of video and a large amount of data are continuously transmitted by satellites to Andromeda, and then sent back to Earth by Andromeda for No. [-] to use her deity computer to classify, organize and calculate various data, and finally put the organized The data was sent back to the Andromeda spacecraft for Dong Chen to study further.

"It's really beautiful! I didn't find it when I first arrived in the asteroid belt, and it's even less beautiful after landing. It still feels like this overall."

"Look at these fissures ejecting steam, there must be a lot of liquid under it."

"There are also these places, which are all ice. There is really no shortage of water on Ceres. No wonder it is inevitably regarded as a large water reservoir in many planetary transformation plans."

Dong Chen crossed his arms and looked at the hologram of Ceres made by No. [-] using the latest detection data. It was different from the simple sphere in the original star map. Now with sufficient data support, the hologram of Ceres in front of him was made When it comes to the real-time display, the time difference is no more than one second.

Although Ceres is a little far away from the sun, which is three times the distance from the sun to the earth, under the sunlight, water vapor will occasionally come out from some cracks, and even when the solar activity erupts, a large amount of steam will come out. There will also be a short-lived thin atmosphere.

Of course, there have been many studies on this on the earth, but after all, it is too far away, and all data must be calculated based on the data sent back by the detectors. Many detections have shown that the water vapor should belong to comets, yes It is formed by sublimation of ice directly by heat without going through the liquid process.

However, after Dong Chen observed at such a close distance and analyzed the data sent back by all the detection satellites, he felt that such a conclusion can be overturned, because the water vapor obviously exists in the form of fog beads, so the fact that there is liquid water in this planet is basically Already set.

And the later detection also proved his guess. After the satellite found a good drilling spot, the drilling equipment that had been prepared for a long time drove there immediately, and even Dong Chen himself drove the spaceship to watch.

As a result, a small underground liquid lake was discovered after drilling less than two kilometers down, and a large number of biota were found in it.

And this underground liquid lake is relatively small, relatively close to the surface, and many detection satellites have detected many large and small underground cavities, which are likely to be underground liquid lakes or oceans with water. It's even better here.

But Dong Chen no longer intends to waste that time, this little proof is enough.

Most of these organisms are fungi, with a small amount of bacteria, and even a very small part of multicellular life. This is a slowly evolving microbial world, which Yihao and Dong Chen can see clearly under the microscope.

"No. [-], have you seen it? There is a complete microbial community here, which is almost the same as we expected."

"Look here, there are quite a few big ones here, and the largest one has exceeded 0.1 mm. These are multicellular complex organisms."

"And here, these two groups of microorganisms are still fighting. This reminds me of an evolution game "Spore" I played a long time ago. It is very similar to those scenes of devouring evolution."

If scientists on the earth discover this, they will have to scream, and it may be at the same level as the discovery of the remains of the alien civilization on the original island.

Although these are just microorganisms, they can be regarded as life no matter what. In this way, the rule of universal existence of alien life has a certain factual basis.

These lives don't need to be humanoids, animals, or even plants. As long as there is a little sign of life activity, even if it is a virus or bacteria, it is also an alien life.

And after the scope of alien life expands to this range, life may exist on many planets that are not suitable for human habitation and have relatively extreme environments.

After Dong Chen carefully observed these microorganisms, he found that the origin of these things should come from the other side of the wormhole behind Jupiter, and they are of the same origin as life on Earth, and they all come from the arc galaxy.

It is said that alien life is actually just life living on other planets. It is only because of the different living environment, and the acquired direction of evolution is different. In the final analysis, they are the same as us 500 years ago... No, It was a family 50 billion years ago.

After proving this, it can be regarded as an end to one of Dong Chen's concerns. From this point of view, there should be more or less life on other planets in the solar system, even the famous Enceladus, Jupiter, etc. There may also be relatively large life forms on Jupiter, and things similar to the jellyfish octopus in the movie "Europa Report" are not impossible, but this is not Dong Chen's concern.

As long as there are no obvious signs of civilization on these planets, if there is only life, then it is not a big deal. Maybe the scientists on the earth will be interested, but Dong Chen doesn't care.

Maybe when he has more free time, he may go on an expedition because he has nothing to do, and look for extraterrestrial life. Now, that is, within a few days, he will first solve Xie Fei's matter.

Finally, after looking at the busy base construction scene on Ceres, Dong Chen turned around and sat down on the captain's seat and said, "Okay, No. [-], let's plan the route back, let's go back and meet that Xie Fei for a while, and see what's going on with him." become what it is now.”

"Hiding for such a long time can be regarded as his good luck, but for such a person, the good luck should come to an end."

"Okay, sir, the return route is being planned, and the Andromeda spacecraft is starting to return."

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