On Mars, they will conduct a three-day, strictly speaking, two-and-a-half-day, sixty-hour exploration activity.

To get through these two and a half "long" days, the materials and equipment that can be carried by the two Yinghuo landing cabins are far from enough.

So for this manned mission, they also prepared a temporary life support unit, which can also be said to be a life support capsule.

This life support unit, jointly developed by the Xinghai Research Institute and the Aerospace Research Institute and the Aerospace Group, contains enough oxygen resources, water resources, food, sleeping bags and other materials and equipment for four astronauts for five days.

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And for the four astronauts who boarded the fire, this was actually "spare supplies."

Yes, strictly speaking, this life support unit is a backup.

What really provided the four people with these two and a half days was the Hanhai space shuttle!

After completing the delivery of all materials and scientific research equipment, and docking the first-generation aircraft and transferring Gui Haichao and Tang Shengjie who were staying on it, the Hanhai space shuttle will make a test landing on the surface of Mars under the control of AI intelligence.

After all, at the time of design, a second-generation aircraft equipped with six small aerospace engines was theoretically capable of taking off and landing on Mars.

If the landing of Hanhai goes well, then it will be the real "colony module" for the four astronauts!

But before that, they still had to check and deploy this small life support unit in case of any unexpected situations.

Driving to the Mars rover, Jiang Xinlin arrived at the backup life support unit.

After getting out of the car, he walked over calmly. He first walked around to check whether the structure was damaged. After confirming that there was no problem, he opened the protective cover and exposed the switch inside.

After reaching out and pressing the red button inside, Jiang Xinlin slowly pushed back two steps.

The protective cover on the upper half of the colonization module that shrank into a cylindrical shape fell off piece by piece, revealing the folded Mars habitation module inside.

The current living cabin looks like a folded semi-circular pancake, which is white in color and has a curved support structure.

This is a Mars residential module designed by the Aerospace Group. When air is injected, it can quickly inflate and turn into a tent-like structure, with enough space for four people to rest at the same time.

After dragging out the folded Mars habitation module with some effort, Jiang Xinlin quickly inflated and unfolded it.

The small air compressor carried in the colony module is used to collect thin air directly from Mars and fill it into the habitation module.

Although this process is very slow, the living cabin is still expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

While paying attention to the inflation of the living cabin, Jiang Xinlin dismantled other removable materials in the colony cabin.

It is worth mentioning that although the gravity on Mars is much lower than that on Earth, it does not have much impact on activities on it while wearing a spacesuit.

Especially when the space suit increases the weight of its own activities, it will not be possible to fly directly to the sky just by running around on the moon.

Compared with the moon and space, this environment with lower gravity but which does not affect astronauts' activities is much more comfortable.

Even not long after landing on Mars, Jiang Xinlin felt that some of the physical fatigue and problems he had accumulated from long-term navigation in space had been greatly relieved.
Chapter completed!