Homo sapiens.

Chapter 556 Journey ([-])

boom!A huge spaceship spewing thrust reversers slowly landed over the Utopia Plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars.

The spacecraft is a Tinder-class spacecraft weighing 6000 tons.

It didn't come to Mars alone, but was combined with four other Pylon spacecraft, and a huge anti-radiation shield was installed behind it, and then it quickly propelled to Mars by using the nuclear explosion of a miniature hydrogen bomb.

At present, it only takes 45 to 127 earth days for Homo Sapien's unmanned spacecraft to go to Mars through nuclear explosion propulsion.

Five fireships are bundled together, one of which is the nuclear bomb warehouse and thruster core, and the remaining four fireships are all here to perform missions.

Two of them will land in the Utopia Plain area in the northern hemisphere of Mars, and set up the first Mars surface scientific research station-Utopia Station there.

The other two Tinder spacecraft will stay in the sun-synchronous orbit of Mars as a Mars space station.

At this time, in the cockpit of the fireship spacecraft that landed on Mars, three robots are manipulating the spacecraft.

"Captain, everything is normal and you can land." The nameplate on the chest of the talking robot read: HX-0075.

"Permission to land." Another robot ordered directly.

"Got it, start landing."

The nozzle of the thrust reverser engine of the Pylon spacecraft was constantly adjusted, and the light blue flame spewed out gradually weakened until the bottom of the spacecraft was less than 5 meters away from the ground.

"Expand the buffer rack."

Twelve mechanical legs popped up from the bottom of the spaceship and were directly inserted into the loose sand on the surface. The hydraulic pumps and shock absorbers of the mechanical legs, as well as the automatic balance and stabilization system of the spaceship itself, allowed the spaceship to stop firmly on the sand.

Immediately, the light blue flame at the engine nozzle was also extinguished.

"Successful landing." Robot No. 0075 made a slightly joyful voice.

Robot No. 0074 looked at the dashboard, and then ordered: "King, check each system."

Robot No. 0076 replied immediately: "Got it."

As for the captain of robot 0074, he immediately contacted the captain of another spaceship. The two sides communicated for a few minutes, and after confirming that there was no problem with each other, he wrote a report and replied to the Earth headquarters.

These robots are not artificial intelligence, but real "human beings".

To be precise, it is the people who control the robots, not the supercomputers and intelligent programs.

Although intelligent programs supported by huge computing power can simulate humans, and can also perform some relatively rigid tasks according to the set programs, they are not as flexible as humans after all.

Especially in the process of performing alien exploration, aliens are often very far away from the earth, and the artificial intelligence of the spacecraft alone is not enough to cover everything.

After research, the Space Division decided to use the previously developed 16-fold magnetic monopole crystal as a communication device.

In an ultra-low temperature environment, the 16-fold magnetic monopole crystal has an extreme service life of 2739 Earth days, and a service life of more than seven years, which is obviously ready for practical application.

And this improved version of the magnetic monopole crystal, as the core of the communication system, can communicate without delay.

At least for now, there is no obvious delay between the Mars landing spacecraft and the Earth headquarters.

This is also the reason why these robots can be controlled by humans. In the communication module of the robot, there is a magnetic monopole crystal communicator, which corresponds to a dedicated control cabin of the earth headquarters.

In this way, the staff of the space business department can directly control the robot to perform tasks on Mars.

Although this new type of magnetic monopole crystal has a service life of only a little over seven years, its delay-free communication effect is really delicious in the eyes of the Space Business Department.

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The operator of robot 0074 is Dimash, one of the two captains of the Mars landing spacecraft.

He had just reported the situation of the landing mission to the Earth headquarters, and another robot No. 0076, Gene, reported to him the situation of the various systems of the spacecraft:

"Captain, all the systems of the spacecraft are normal, and there is still 62% of the chemical fuel remaining."

"Well, you and Wang get ready, we will start to expand the base later."

"Yes."

The Tinder spacecraft weighed 6000 tons. Except for part of the fuel and the spacecraft structure, it carried a total of 2760 tons of items.

These include two cobalt rod nuclear power cabins, seven experiment cabins, four tool cabins, and four supply cabins.

These cabins are not assembled, but they need to be installed and debugged on site.

Dimash walked out of the cockpit, the sky was gray and hazy, and it happened to be the season of frequent sandstorms in the northern hemisphere of Mars.

Because it uses the robot's sensor to feel various actions, even if the biosensor technology of Homo sapiens is very advanced, Dimash can still feel a little bit of unreality.

When the robot stepped on the sand, there was always a feeling of incoordination, and Dimash was very helpless about it, because he knew the reason clearly.

Because the robot is on Mars at this time, while his body is on the earth, the different gravity coefficient and air density between the two will make the robot operator feel uncoordinated. This is a very normal and unavoidable situation .

Unless Dimash himself comes to Mars, this sense of incongruity cannot be eliminated.

under the influence of dust storms.

Dimash could only see a hazy silhouette more than 100 meters away, which was another landing spacecraft.

He looked up at the sky, and saw a light blue sphere looming in the dust cloud.

That is the sun.

The sun seen on Mars is light blue.

This is because the atmosphere of Mars is dominated by carbon dioxide, so the sun is light blue after passing through the carbon dioxide filter.

He checked the surrounding terrain through the built-in auxiliary system and the spacecraft's own magnetic field detector.

Although the Utopia Plain is very flat, it is relatively flat, and some tens of meters of undulating terrain are actually the norm.

Walking on the surface of Mars is like stepping on cotton candy. Not only is the body light and fluffy, but even the sand can easily leave footprints.

This situation is caused by the relatively low gravity of Mars, and frequent sandstorms, coupled with low gravity, make the sand layer accumulated on the surface very soft.

Through the careful scanning of the magnetic field detector, he quickly identified a lowland 330 meters away on the west side, and there is a stable bedrock layer about 50 meters underground.

Although the various cabins do not have high requirements on the terrain, and there are no frequent major earthquakes on Mars, there is no need to worry too much about the terrain.

But Dimash still chose areas that are relatively low-lying and have hard bedrock.

Although there is no strong geological activity on Mars, it does not mean that you can sit back and relax.

On the contrary, Mars is more dangerous than Earth.

The reason is that the atmosphere of Mars itself is thin, and it is close to the asteroid belt and Jupiter. Those asteroids thrown out by Jupiter's gravity can easily approach the orbit of Mars.

Therefore, Mars is easy to be attacked by asteroids, without the consumption of a dense atmosphere, asteroids are very destructive to the surface of the planet.

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.

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