Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 7 Callisto

Yue Yuan is going to Mars, but this time he will not go to Mars. Instead, he will wait at the Yinghuo Orbital Station for the other two talents who have been transferred to Callisto.

Of course, the need to transfer to a large transport ship in Mars orbit is also one of the reasons.

As the engine spewed out dazzling light, Yue Yuan's group changed from four to five, disappeared from the sight of the people at the Queqiao transfer station, and disappeared into the vast deep space.

Yinghuo is the ancient name of Mars. The flower growers romantically gave this base this culturally rich name.

This is the accumulation of history, the inheritance of culture, and the carrier of technology.

Only science and technology can condense the names of history or myth into culture and pass them on to the future from generation to generation.

As for Callisto, this name refers to the fourth satellite of Jupiter.

But if the transliteration of the name Carlitos is mentioned, then one's eyes would basically go blank and one would not even know what it means.

The superiority of expression is obvious.

Therefore, in this era, all space stations or extraterrestrial bases built by flower growers are basically all in Chinese.

Saying goodbye to the red planet Mars, after a long journey, the transport boat Yue Yuan and his party were on finally entered the range of being captured by Jupiter's gravity.

The transport ship, which had prepared reverse deceleration in advance, slowly sailed towards the Callisto docking station. The docking station is located at the gravitational balance point between Callisto and Jupiter, which is often called the Lagrange point.

Callisto has a diameter of 4821 kilometers, which is larger than the moon and 0.378 times that of the Earth.It is the third largest satellite in the solar system. The first is Ganymede and the second is Titan, also known as Titan.Viewed from orbit, Callisto appears tawny in color, with its overall color dotted with bright white spots that appear to be ice from cooling craters.

Its albedo is very low, so it is dark, giving the impression that it is a lifeless planet.

Its surface gravity acceleration is 1.24m/s2, which means that the gravity received by the same object on Callisto is about one-eighth that of the Earth.From this we can see that although it is large, its density and mass are not as large as the moon.

It has no global magnetic field, and its icy surface is covered with craters of various shapes and sizes, including bowl-shaped craters and craters with multiple rings, as well as rare long and narrow sunken canyons.

The base of Callisto is located in one of the long, narrow canyons facing Jupiter.

Due to being tidally locked by Jupiter, people on the base can see the oppressive giant Jupiter as long as they look up when they go out.

The appearance of the entire Callisto base is gray because its building materials are all locally sourced, dug out and screened from Callisto, and then 3D printed.

In fact, not only the Callisto base, but also the building materials of Guanghan Palace and Yinghuo base are all made from local materials and produced through 3D printing technology.

Through this method, bricks with a mortise and tenon structure were prepared, and then constructed by remote simultaneous interpretation engineering machinery. China's ancient mortise and tenon structure was once again used in space.

I have to say that sometimes the wisdom of our ancestors is still very powerful.

Different from Guanghan Palace and Yinghuo Base, more than half of the Callisto Base is underground. The above-ground part is formed into one piece, covering half of the narrow valley. The most underground layer is connected to the entrance of the damaged alien spacecraft.

Due to the existence of the damaged spacecraft, this base has received unprecedented attention. Both its scientific research investment and construction scale are much larger than those of Guanghan Palace and Yinghuo Base. It can be said that it is the most advanced and complete base with various facilities among the extraterrestrial bases.

After all, it's not enough if it's not complete. You can't just get an alien spacecraft part and transport it back to Earth for further study. Not only is it risky to expose, it's also a waste of time.

In fact, the superiors also know that as time goes by, traditional aerospace powers such as the United States will always find out. It is said that they are now planning their own base on Callisto. Once they come, there is a high probability that they will not be able to hide it. of.

Before that, I must study desperately.Therefore, in such an environment, many outstanding scientific researchers and scientists were sent to the Callisto base. In addition, due to the needs of base construction, a large number of engineers and various craftsmen came to work here.

Of course, they are not traditional masons, but high-skilled workers. After all, the construction of this kind of off-world base basically uses machinery. The workers operate indoors and the machinery works in the external environment.

With more people, there are more needs. For example, basic needs such as food and clothing cannot be transported from the earth every time.Under such a situation, the Callisto base gradually turned into a small city with more than 8 people.

Back at the Callisto base, Yue Yuan first arranged Yi Kai's work, and then hurriedly greeted Zhu Pite to the office to start dealing with the recent pile-up.

Yue Yuan's first concern was matters related to alien spacecraft.After taking the document and looking at it for a while, he sighed and threw it aside.

Without him, there is no good news.

The interior of the spacecraft was basically searched, but no trace of the red substance was found.In this case, follow-up research can really only be done through serum, which is not a wonderful thing.

There is also bad news, that is, the head of the spacecraft has been completely damaged, and the cab that has not been discovered has been filled with rocks. According to expert estimates, all the equipment inside should be scrapped.

Judging from the report, expert analysis believes that this was caused by the impact of the spacecraft crashing. As for the age of the spacecraft, scientists currently make preliminary inferences based on the surrounding rock formations and the shape of the spacecraft embedded in the formation. It should be more than 2 years old, but the specific time remains. unconfirmed.

In fact, Yue Yuan doesn't care about the age of the spaceship. He only knows that aliens really exist.Humans are not alone in this universe.

He didn't know whether this was good news or bad news.

Yes, loneliness is the most terrifying thing. From this perspective, human beings should be happy and grateful that humans are not the only intelligent life in the universe.

Because it is so terrifying to say that humans are the only intelligent life in the universe.

However, today human beings really know nothing about the universe. They don’t know what cosmic civilizations are like, nor what the relationship between cosmic civilizations is, let alone where those civilizations are, and whether they are well-intentioned or malicious.

Knowing the existence of alien civilization, this state of being blind is extremely dangerous, so the main task of the Callisto base is actually to study this damaged alien spacecraft, hoping to find some Clues about alien civilization.

If we can find clues from these, we can try to infer the relationship between various civilizations in the universe from this little bit of information.

This is an unprecedented study, and because it is socially oriented, scientists who study this field call it cosmic sociology.

However, due to confidentiality, this subject is currently only studied quietly by some internal sociologists with limited information discovered through the Callisto base.

So even though there are many people on Callisto, there are not many people who really know about the existence of alien spacecraft. And one thing is for sure, before the secret of the existence of alien spacecraft is made public, it is impossible for those who know the secret to leave at will. base.

From Yue Yuan's perspective, this is natural and unquestionable.

After returning to Callisto, Yue Yuan's life will be as busy and regular as usual. If there are no accidents, he will probably stay here for another 20 years and then change positions.

Either return to Earth, or continue to the next stop to open up a new space base.

However, if he had a choice, according to Yue Yuan's personality, he would definitely choose to develop a new space base until he could no longer adapt to space life.

However, just as the seventh Earth month came when Yue Yuan returned to the Callisto base, an accident happened.

(End of this chapter)