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Chapter 263 Discovery of Moon Water Ice!

Astronauts are not on vacation when they come to the moon, especially when they bring geologists with them.

At the very beginning, they were doing exploration near the base and collected a lot of lunar soil and moon rocks.

The reason why I don't go far is because I don't have a car.

It's not that I don't want to bring a car, it's just because I have to live for three months this time, so many places are used to store food supplies, and some more important equipment are placed in the rest.

Such as a delivery vehicle...parts.

Well, that's the second reason for not bringing a car.

Because there are already more than a dozen vehicles on the base.

The five large lunar rovers all have modification functions, which can be equipped with different parts for different tasks, and can also be converted into manned vehicles.

A month into their arrival, the rover discovered six lava caves that allow access to the crater.

One of them was very open, and it was also very spacious, but there was a blockage, and only some small gaps indicated that it was open, so the astronauts recalled the lunar rovers, changed their equipment, and directly opened that hole.

It's just that although the end of this cave leads directly to the crater, there is a big cliff at the end, which cannot be passed.

I had no choice but to open up the second most accessible cave.

This cave is good, although the passability is poor, but it has a large gentle slope after entering the crater, allowing the lunar rover to go down to the bottom of the crater.

Once they were able to enter the bottom of the crater, they detained a large lunar rover, and only let 4 large lunar rovers take 10 small lunar rovers to search for water resources.

At the same time, it has been more than a month. They have explored the vicinity of the base and need a car to expand their range of activities.

They need to turn the lunar rover into a fast-moving means of transportation that can be driven by humans and can increase the range of activities. Therefore, they dismantled the detection equipment on the lunar rover and reduced the components of "mobile scientific research instruments" to a minimum.

Then a driving module and a ride module were added, and a vehicle-mounted life support module was installed to increase the time for the space suit to spend time outside.

With a human driver, the rover can go faster, so they should be able to extend their range of motion to a radius of 300 kilometers.

You must know that when there is no car, they will go around within 10 kilometers.

It's not that they can't go further, it's just for safety, they didn't venture in.

The astronauts used spare maintenance parts to assemble a non-powered cart, which was hung behind the lunar rover as a cargo bucket.

Then, a geologist goes to the moon, and that's the equivalent of a hamster going to the granary.

Sun Lili, a geologist, wanted to move to the base when she saw large pieces of lunar rock and lunar soil with different compositions.

In the end, they moved too much, and there was no room for them in the base, so we could only pick and choose, as long as the most valuable ones were selected.

Of course, the value of every gram of lunar soil is great, but it is still necessary to select some of the most valuable ones and bring them back.

That's it, I saved 3 tons!
Lunar soil and moon rocks are put into sealed bags separately, and some bags are collected and packed into sealed boxes. After enough boxes are collected, they will be transported to the cargo hold of the moon-flying spacecraft.

Because it takes up too much space.

Now there are 3 tons of lunar rock and lunar soil in the spacecraft, and this time it will be transported back together.

You must know that the 6 successful manned moon landing missions of the Freedom Federation brought back more than 300 kilograms.

The Chang'e-1.73 unmanned equipment collected about [-] kilograms of lunar soil on the moon before, which has made Fanxing's research in this area a big step forward, and has also opened up research applications. Research institutions in other countries can also apply for samples for research.

If 3 tons of lunar rock and lunar soil samples are shipped back, not to mention applying for samples for research, even if they are sent, they will be sent in large pieces.

Giving away gram by gram like the Freedom Federation, Fanxing can't afford to lose that person, and at the same time, he won't deliberately insult people like that. If you want to give it away, start with 1 catty.

However, just when the three astronauts counted all the samples and determined that the lunar rock and lunar soil samples to be transported back to Earth weighed 3002.49 kilograms, and then returned to the outpost for dinner, they planned to move some things into the spacecraft tomorrow. , Standing at the outpost, the sweet voice of "Sister Chang'e" suddenly sounded.

"Update the milestone of the 'Source of Life' project, at 6:49:13 pm Beijing time, the No. 07 lunar rover found a sample of water ice!"

When they first heard the news, the three astronauts froze for a moment, and then suddenly jumped up with a strange cry. Veteran Nie Zhiming was too happy to control his strength, and his head hit the ceiling directly.

"Ouch!"

"Quick! Look at the data! Is it true?"

Originally, they had already adapted to the gravity of the moon, and they walked in a decent way, but the sudden news made them seem to have returned to the time when they first came to the moon, and they walked stumblingly.

They have just arrived at the control center of the outpost, which is an operation console composed of several screens and some buttons, and the information from the ground command center has also arrived.

The excited faces of the staff who communicated with them on a daily basis almost came out of the screen: "We just received a message saying that water ice was found, is it true? Is the message confirmed?"

"We're about to confirm!"

While talking, the three of them moved to another screen. In the center of the screen was a dusty crystal illuminated by light. Under the light, some parts of that crystal reflected inexplicable brilliance. more compelling.

quartz?

crystal?

No, just a piece of dirty ice!

Because next to it is its composition analysis, which clearly states that it is ice, which is a mixture of water ice and lunar soil!
The three of them looked at each other and found the irrepressible ecstasy in each other's eyes.

………………

"I see, I see the spaceship!"

"Wow, it's back. This spaceship has been on the moon for three months. It's amazing!"

"Now the three astronauts are still on the moon, one day longer than this spacecraft, even more impressive."

"How long are they going to be on the moon?"

"It is said to be six months, which is the same as the residence time of the space station mission."

"Awesome, although the time is the same as the space station mission, but there is the moon after all."

"The flying moon spacecraft came back so quickly this time, it only took one day."

"This is the original skill of the super fuel. I was more careful when I landed on the moon because I was carrying people."

Naturally, the return process of the moon-flying spacecraft was broadcast live, so when the spacecraft appeared in the docking camera of the space station, the audience was so excited.

Before it came back, the wooden kite had docked to the "back" of the core module of the space station.

After the Wooden Yuan matured, the cargo spacecraft was never launched again, so the "rear" docking port of the core module was left vacant and became the Wooden Yuan's dedicated docking port.

The node module of the core module has 5 openings, the "upper" one is for astronauts to exit the hatch, and the "lower" one is docked with an old-fashioned manned spacecraft, which is used for emergency escape in case of emergency.

Then the "both sides" are docked with two test cabins, and the remaining docking port is at the "front", which is just used to dock with the returning moon-flying spacecraft.

It can be seen from this that the docking port of the Starry Space Station is no longer rich.

And there is a space telescope in orbit, thanks to this space telescope, there is no problem, because the space station needs to dock with it to repair it.

If it happens to catch up with this kind of time, the interface is not enough at all.

There will definitely be more and more docking tasks in the future, and even more and more spacecraft will be docked at the same time, so the second phase of the Starry Space Station will have to increase the schedule.

(End of this chapter)