Homo sapiens.

This is also a problem that must be considered when establishing a surface base on Mars.

Dimash and Chen Baojun, the captain of a landed spacecraft, determined the specific location of the base layout, and then the two began to lead their respective team members to start the base construction work.

However, considering safety, the bases of the two teams were not built together, but were about 200 meters apart.

This is just in case, to prevent the base facilities from being concentrated together and being taken over by the asteroid.

Chapter 558 The Journey ([-])

The first piece of equipment assembled by the three of Dimash was the tool cabin.

In fact, the tool cabin is similar to the excavation and transportation equipment on the lunar Copernicus base, which can dig out tunnels and transport some assembled cabins.

A large number of devices have been modularized, so it is very simple to assemble, it will be like building blocks.

Soon the digger-tool cabin completed the splicing work.

"Wang, you are in charge of the excavation work."

"Ok."

Diggers like millipedes crawled towards a low-lying sand not far away.

The Digger's power system is very special, since it is not a nuclear battery or a solar panel, but a magnetic monopole crystal.

That's right, it's a magnetic monopole crystal.

Magnetic monopolar crystals have another property, which is the transmission of electrical energy over long distances.

Therefore, part of the Digger's power supply system is a wireless power supply system made of magnetic monopole crystals, and the other part is a backup emergency chemical battery.

In this way, the Burrower can directly rely on the spare nuclear battery on the spark ship.

Wang Shu controls the Digger, digging ditches on the ground.

In less than half an hour, a large pit with a depth of 8 meters and a length of 20 meters was dug.

However, during the excavation process, Wang Shu discovered a new situation, that is, the water content of the sand.

In the sandy soil layer of 1 to 2 meters on the surface, the water content of the sandy soil is very small, but as the excavation depth increases, the water content in the soil has slightly increased.

This situation shows that there is groundwater in the underground of Mars.

In fact, this situation is very normal. The Mars Geological Remote Sensing Satellite of the Space Business Department has long ago discovered through magnetic field detectors that there are not a few underground water on Mars.

Of course, even if there is abundant groundwater underground on Mars, there is a high probability that Homo sapiens will not exploit it in large quantities.

After all, the total amount of water resources on Mars is too small, especially the shallow groundwater, which is even more pitiful.

To mine groundwater on Mars, it is better to send a spacecraft to the asteroid belt to pull a few water-containing asteroids.

Unless it is an emergency, the Space Business Department does not plan to exploit Martian groundwater on a large scale in the short term.

Wang Shu was digging a tunnel, and Dimash opened an exclusive Mars live broadcast room to the earth through the communication system.

Through this live broadcast room, Dimash broadcasts the daily life in aliens to the inside of Homo sapiens company and the whole free world.

In front of the camera in the live broadcast room.

In order to avoid leaking secrets, Dimash, who was wearing the robot body, switched to electronically synthesized voices to introduce the situation of the Mars base to the audience.

"Hello, everyone, I am Homo sapiens robot No. 0074 stationed on Mars. Now I will introduce the situation of Mars and the Mars base..."

Dimash's electronically synthesized sound is very stiff, and with the gray dust background behind him, people can't understand the environment.

Those ordinary people in the free world thought it was a studio in a desert.

However, the employees inside Homo sapiens are very sure that the company's spacecraft has landed on Mars.

After all, Homo Sapiens has created too many miracles, and the employees already have a kind of blind self-confidence, and they believe in the company very much.

Compared with ordinary people in the free world, the four major forces in the free world know that the spacecraft of the Homo sapiens company has successfully landed on the Utopia Plain through the scientific research satellites placed in the orbit of Mars.

However, the four major forces will naturally not help Homo sapiens to promote.

Regarding Homo sapiens' huge investment in the aerospace field, the entire free world can only be described as envy, envy and hatred.

After more than half an hour of live streaming, Dimash ended today's live broadcast.

……

The fifth hour after landing on Mars.

Dimash, Wang Shu and others quickly went offline for vacation.

But the robot did not stop working, because another group of staff took over the task of manipulating the robot.

After all, the service life of magnetic monopole crystals is only more than 7 years, and time is very precious. Naturally, people and machines are endlessly working in four shifts 24 hours a day.

In order to ensure that the staff will not be turned upside down day and night, the space business department has also set up five special remote control centers in South America, the Pacific Ocean, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa by taking advantage of the time difference of each branch.

Homo sapiens is a force on which the sun never sets around the equator.

Taking advantage of the time difference between various places, it just guarantees the six-hour working time of the employees, and can fully implement four shifts without the trouble of jet lag.

In terms of humanization, Homo sapiens is definitely the number one existence in the world.

The newly on-line staff controls the robot and continues the work of the previous team.

The Utopia Station rose from the sandstorm at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming the first base of human civilization on Mars.

Dust storms on Mars are still raging.

In each cabin buried underground, many functions have already started to work. For example, the nuclear power cabin, which is the core of the power supply, continuously transmits electric energy to other cabins.

Relying on nuclear batteries, the base's experimental cabin is conducting related scientific research. Although there are no humans, the robots can be controlled by the communicator of the magnetic monopole crystal. In fact, it is similar to humans working here.

In addition to the scientific research work in the experimental cabin.

In the other two tool compartments, many field exploration robots are also stored.

These field exploration robots are not humanoid, but various special-shaped robots, including: vacuum airship robots, multi-legged all-terrain robots, and crawler robots.

Among them, the airship robot has not been launched recently due to the weather.

However, many crawler robots and multi-legged robots have been dispatched.

These crawler robots and multi-legged robots are slowly exploring in all directions based on Utopia Station.

The staff who operate these robots are also controlling the robots from the earth headquarters through the magnetic monopole crystal.

Moreover, these robots also use magnetic monopole crystals as wireless chargers, which reduces the disadvantages of carrying solar panels and large lithium batteries and nuclear batteries.

With the magnetic monopole crystal wireless charger, these robots can work in the field for a long time.

The task of the exploration robot is very simple, it is to scout the surrounding terrain and collect surrounding soil samples at the same time.

Homo sapiens is actually very interested in Mars.

After all, according to the current theory of the birth of life in the solar system mastered by Homo Sapiens, amino acid structures are common in asteroids and comets, and amino acids happen to be one of the basic components of biological cells.

The researchers of Homo sapiens have reason to believe that there are more or less life on every planet in the solar system, but it is not as obvious and huge as the earth.

For example, there are several single-celled organisms in the subsurface aquifer of the moon, not to mention Mars, which is frequented by asteroids.

Therefore, one of the current tasks of the exploration robot is to look for traces of life on Mars, and look at the traces and evidence of life on Mars in ancient times.

However, it is a bit difficult to find traces of life in Utopia Plain.

After all, the Utopia Plain is located in the northern hemisphere of Mars. It is covered by sandstorms all year round. Over the years, the sandstorms have deposited a large amount of sand on the ground.

If you want to find evidence of the existence of paleontology on Mars, you must not look here, but look for those grand canyons, mountains and hills, so that there may be paleontological relics that are not covered by wind and sand.

Chapter 559 The Journey ([-])

The construction of the Mars base is in full swing.

The other bundled spark ship is still in the nuclear explosion propulsion stage.

This spacecraft departed from Earth at about the same time as the one going to Mars, but the destinations of the two are different.

Its destination is Saturn.

As one of the eight planets in the solar system, Saturn and Jupiter are very similar. Both are large gaseous planets and also have a lot of natural satellites.

Previously, the Department of Space Affairs had established an exploration system on Jupiter, using nuclear explosion propulsion to launch two spark spacecraft to Jupiter, and built a space station on Jupiter’s synchronous orbit, and launched 93 artificial satellites to Jupiter and its subsidiary natural satellites at the same time .

This time, a bundled tinder spacecraft (five tinder spacecraft bundled together) is launched to Saturn, the purpose is to explore Saturn, especially Saturn’s natural satellite.

For example, the hometown of Thanos-Titan (Titan).

Titan is the second largest satellite in the solar system, with a diameter larger than that of Mercury. More importantly, Titan has a dense atmosphere. Its surface atmospheric pressure is about 1.5 times that of Earth. The core components of Titan's atmosphere are nitrogen and methane.

This low-gravity planet with a dense atmosphere uses a vacuum airship-style landing spacecraft, which is easy to land and return to space.

Of course, the reason Homo sapiens is eyeing Titan is definitely not because it is easy to ascend and descend, but because Titan has more potential than Mars.

After all, Titan has a dense atmosphere, relatively strong geological activities, and liquid oceans and glaciers. Although the temperature is relatively low, the temperature in some volcanic areas is still very suitable for the existence of life.

Why is Homo sapiens obsessed with finding extraterrestrial life?

The fundamental reason is that the discovery of lunar bacteria has made considerable progress in the biosynthesis technology of the lunar Copernicus base, and now it is possible to synthesize some precision parts on the moon.

As long as enough extraterrestrial life is collected, Homo sapiens will be able to develop biosynthetic microorganisms adapted to the environment of each planet, and the spacecraft will be able to reduce some unnecessary equipment and directly use most of the payloads to carry precision equipment and personnel.

After all, in the future space exploration process, if every exploration needs to bring a lot of materials, then as the exploration planet becomes farther and farther away from the earth, the company's logistical pressure will also become greater and greater.

The core function of future spacecraft is to realize local materials collection, collection and supply along the way.

As the planet with the highest possibility of life in the solar system, Titan has a higher priority than Mars.

Had Mars not been relatively large, or a rocky planet, with a large amount of minerals, Homo sapiens would not have painstakingly built a Mars base.

Including Venus as well.

The Homo sapiens company has laid a floating base in the atmosphere of Venus, namely the Yungong project.

At present, the scale of the Yungong base is already very large. A large number of vacuum airships have been pieced together to form a huge floating platform.

Likewise, a strap-on Tinder spacecraft that was recently propelled past by a nuclear explosion was 13 Earth days ahead of its arrival at Mars.

After all, Venus is the closest planet to the Earth, and this Earth's twin brother star, if not for some unknown reasons, it should also be a vibrant planet.

The bundled spark spacecraft that had already arrived at Venus dropped a new batch of supplies onto the upper deck of the Yungong base little by little.

The Yungong base is located in the atmosphere 50 kilometers above the surface of Venus. The atmosphere here is dense. Even at an altitude of 50 kilometers from the surface, the atmospheric pressure is still slightly higher than that of the earth's sea level.

The dense atmosphere makes the buoyancy of the vacuum airship amazing.

Similarly, a vacuum airship with a vacuum chamber of 40 billion cubic meters basically does not have a few tons of payload at an altitude of 50 kilometers above sea level on the earth; however, at an altitude of 50 kilometers on the surface of Venus, the effective buoyancy is as high as hundreds of thousands of tons.

This is also the root cause of the space business department's Yungong project in Venus.

Of course, the dense atmosphere of Venus is not good. Strong winds are the norm, and it often rains sulfuric acid. Without sufficient protective armor and countermeasures, it is impossible to withstand the harsh environment of Venus' atmosphere.

When the Venus exploration spacecraft launched by the old Lucia landed on the surface of Venus, he received a box lunch within a few minutes, which shows the harsh environment of Venus.

Fortunately, various technologies of Homo sapiens are constantly emerging, giving the Space Division the confidence to conquer Venus.

15 humanoid robots appeared inside the Yungong Base.

Apparently, these robots are remote-controlled robots through magnetic monopole crystal communicators.

"Bai Xin, activate the carbon dioxide collector."

"Got it, Captain!"

The robot numbered JX-0024 is the captain of this shift, Stuka. He looked at the vacuum carbon sphere synthesis cabin just transported from the earth, and the task list sent by the headquarters, and quickly arranged various tasks.

Suddenly there was a noticeable shaking in the cabin.

He has long been used to this, and he was very nervous by the frequent vibrations when he first started working on Venus with robots.

Now he has seen it all.

This is the normal state of the atmosphere of Venus. Even with the automatic balance and stabilization system, the Yungong base has no way to eliminate this strong wind.

After all, the atmosphere of Venus is very dense, it is an atmosphere at an altitude of 50 kilometers, and typhoon-level strong winds are normal.

The overall weight of the Yungong base reaches 25.5 tons, and it is still drifting and vibrating constantly due to the strong wind.

Of course, not all of the 25.5 tons of weight were transported from the earth, of which 17 tons were carbon and sulfuric acid extracted from the atmosphere of Venus.

The extraction of so much carbon and sulfuric acid is mainly used as a reserve of industrial raw materials, and also as a counterweight for the Yungong base.