Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 57
After the plan was finalized, humans spent a long time preparing.

Unmanned exploration will not really begin until the number of new artificial satellites reaches a certain number.

New artificial satellites were launched one after another. At the same time, an unmanned landing craft also carried several unmanned landing probes into the planet's thin atmosphere and landed on the target.

The unmanned landing craft continuously lowers its altitude according to the preset trajectory, and at the same time, two small vector fission thrusters installed on its tail and a thruster on the belly start working together.

Humans with mature fission technology no longer need to use rocket reverse thrust to assist landing as they did in the 21st century. Without considering environmental pollution, a landing craft equipped with a fission thruster can completely break into the atmosphere like a small spacecraft, and then land steadily. Landed locally at the intended location.

Just like that, as it got closer and closer to the ground, the landing craft slowly stretched out four tilting brackets from both sides. Then, after the vector nozzle stirred up a cloud of dust, it stopped firmly on the planet. on the ground.

The average gravity of the planet Ross 154-4 is 7.2m/s, and the escape velocity is 7km/s. , are much lower than the earth, so the unmanned landing craft landing operation is relatively easy.

After the unmanned landing craft stopped, its side door was opened, and then a sloping plate slowly stretched out from the door and was inserted into the ground.

Then, several unmanned detectors slowly climbed from the inclined plate to the ground and began their detection journey.

This small detector follows the classic design of a ground exploration vehicle. It is composed of nine systems, namely structure and mechanism, integrated electronics, guidance and navigation and control, measurement and control data transmission, mobile, power supply, thermal control, payload, remote End driver module.

Since the nuclear fission thruster has not yet been miniaturized enough to be installed on such small detection equipment, its battery replenishment mainly relies on solar charging panels.

Of course, humans can actually drive a landing craft to carry out low-altitude and near-Earth detection on the surface of the planet, but that is part of the onboard landing detection, which is a method in which the pilot of the landing craft drives it personally, and other crew members on board use the equipment on the boat to conduct detection.

The landing craft at this time was called a detection craft because of the change in function.Such methods will be widely used after humans actually land on the planet.

Now it is in the unmanned detection stage, so small ground detectors are still the main ones.

The scientists aboard the Hope followed the line of sight of the small ground detector and crossed the small mounds. After 38 minutes of driving, they arrived at the edge of a mine.

"Get up there and collect some samples," a scientist said to the remote pilot.

Through the remote driving module, the mechanical pilot on the Hope has taken over the actions of the ground detector. Although there is a 20 millisecond delay in operating instructions due to distance, the degree of freedom is much better than leaving it to an automatic program.

After the scientist spoke, the driver sitting in the far-end driving seat raised his hand and clicked on his helmet, then put his hand back on the joystick and began to send various action instructions to the ground detector.

A mechanical arm consisting of a shoulder azimuth joint, a shoulder pitch joint, a wrist pitch joint, an extension arm, a locking release mechanism, a hydraulic press, and cables extends from the base of the ground detector. After approaching the target, the mechanical arm The end of the arm opened like petals, and then a rotating drill bit emerged from the middle.

Tata tower~Tata tower~~~
The drill bit slowly hit the ore, breaking through the dark surface of the ore.

"Is this iron?"

Suddenly, a flash of silvery white caught everyone's attention.

"It's simple iron! How is this possible?!"

Scientists had previously known from spectral analysis that these mines contained a large amount of iron, and the dark layer on the surface should be some kind of iron compound. However, they did not expect that when they drilled down, they discovered a different scene.

"dig to the side and take a look!"

"Yes, push its surface over here, that's right."

Regardless of taking samples, several scientists standing behind the remote driver immediately started gesticulating, wishing they could get on and drive themselves.As the ground detector operates, a screen composed of large and small silver-white pits fills the entire screen. Under the light of the ground detector, they shine with a charming metallic luster.

Several scientists were shocked when they saw this scene.

What kind of iron mine is this? It is clearly a mountain of pure iron!
But, how is it possible!
Such a pure iron mountain cannot exist in nature.

It’s hard to imagine, if everything is like this below this hill, what does that mean?
Several scientists looked at each other, and everyone could see shock and horror in each other's eyes.

Grass!
Are there really aliens on this planet? !

As soon as this idea came up, these scientists heard an exclamation from beside them, "Oh my god, this is titanium! A mountain of titanium?"

Turning around, I saw several experts on the other side also behind the other remote driver, staring dumbly at the screen in front of them. Others were staring blankly at the spectrum analyzer on the ground detector. The data.

Several scientists rushed over immediately in three steps and two steps, and saw that the screen was filled with a silver-gray metallic luster.

But before they could take a breath, they heard an excited roar from behind.

"Damn! This damn spectrum analyzer is malfunctioning! Look what I saw?! Gold, all gold, a mountain of gold!"

Maybe this guy shouted so loud that everyone in the remote driving hall heard it.

So another voice immediately responded: "Yes, the spectrometer is correct. After the No. [-] ground detector dug up the soil, what was found was a silver mountain. Yes, it is a silver mountain. The purity is very high. I suspect it is almost Made of pure silver."

Mountains of gold, mountains of silver, mountains of titanium and mountains of iron!

Maybe more.

It was only discovered because the ground detectors sent by humans were limited.

Every ground detector has discovered similar phenomena, and it cannot be an instrument error.

Well, this is the real gold and silver mountain.

But how could there be mountains of pure metal on a naturally formed planet?During the planet formation process, heavy metals such as gold and silver should be buried deep under the bottom layer, instead of accumulating on the surface to form a hill!
For a moment, the entire remote driving hall fell silent.

The remote pilots also stopped controlling and looked at the scientists behind them in shock, hoping that they could give a reasonable explanation.

"Do we still need to take samples?" A remote mechanical driver asked as he saw the experts behind him staring.

"Sampling? What else to take! If so many detectors have obtained similar results, then it must be that the gold and silver mountains are gone." A geologist recovered from the shock and then spoke to what he just said The remote pilot said: "Go and drive the ground detector here."

She pointed to a marked point on the satellite map with a solemn expression.

The remote driver hesitated: "This is the location of the cave, Professor Bu, what do you want?"

"Yes, I suspect these holes are mining holes."

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