Chapter 285 Planet Transformation(1/2)
.In the ink-colored space, an extremely huge spacecraft is quietly
In space, the dark universe background is as dark as ink, but that is because the universe is unfathomable, and it is formed after superimposing it. It is actually very bright to be in it. The brilliance from countless stars turns this star into a bright day.
The spacecraft is extremely huge and is a frame-like structure.
In the front, there are the cockpit and the astronaut's living compartment. In the middle, there is a transparent cargo compartment, without sealing, just fixing large pieces of equipment to the frame. At the rear, there is the power chamber thruster.
At this time, the spacecraft did not turn on the rocket power, but instead flew in the universe by relying on inertia.
The starlight shines on the spacecraft, reflecting silver-white light. It looks particularly clear in the black space background. The logo of the Universal Company shines brightly among the starlight.
Due to the frame structure, the difficulty of making such a spacecraft is many times less difficult than making a closed spacecraft of the same size.
In the cockpit, there was only one pilot operating the spacecraft.
However, intelligent brain fully autonomous driving devices do not require the driver to do anything. They only need to observe various detection devices, and in the event of an emergency, they can take over the control rights manually.
There are fifteen crew members in the spacecraft, who have left the moon base for eleven months.
"How far is it from the destination?" A voice came from behind the driver. Then, a big man with a uniform of Uniform of Universal of Universal floated and appeared beside him, putting himself into the seat with his hands and buckled the safety belt.
Long-term space flight makes the pilot seem a little dull. Flying in this desolate universe can easily become mentally tired.
He clicked on the touch screen and a picture popped up, which was a ring-shaped planetary belt floating in space.
"There are more than three million kilometers left. Our current speed is thirteen kilometers per second, and we will arrive in three days." Although there is no sunrise or sunset in space, they still use the time on Earth to calculate the time.
This is the deeply rooted inertial thinking of the people on earth.
"How are those people?" he asked casually.
The group of people he mentioned were special passengers of this spacecraft, a mixed team composed of astronomers, planetary orbit computing experts, space engineers, space marines and other talents.
"What else can it do?" The new man, who came to the ship, said boredly, "We have been flying in this haunted space for eleven months, what else can we do? They just kept discussing the plan around the laser data model. Let alone those kids. Even I have already memorized it."
"Hahahaha! So am I, too, I was so dizzy when they quarrel." The driver chuckled, and he didn't want to go back to the rest cabin. Hearing those people, he repeatedly discussed their plans.
"A one-kilometer-diameter asteroid impacts Mars. Its energy will melt a trillion tons of water. At the same time, it will increase the temperature by 2.7 degrees Celsius and rise to the dust of the sky and earth. It will surround Mars for one to two years and form a greenhouse... Mars is filled with frozen condensation gas. It only needs to melt it with high temperature to form a thick atmosphere again..." The later driver recited it, shaking his head and imitating the astronomer's movements.
"Because it is difficult for us to capture the popularity in space, we went to the asteroid belt. There are hundreds of thousands or millions of asteroids with a diameter of more than one meter for us to use. They orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter, so they are in a relatively stationary state and can be easily captured by us..." The first driver also said humorously.
The two looked at each other and laughed loudly.
There is not no water in Mars, but because it is too cold, it condenses into ice.
Ninety-five percent of its atmosphere is carbon dioxide, but it is only a thin layer. More gases are absorbed by the soil and then frozen.
This time they went there to implement an extremely bold plan: use asteroids to hit Mars!
The autobiography of Mars is basically the same as the Earth. The Earth's time is twenty-four hours and thirty-seven minutes a day. All Earthlings will feel very adapted. Mars also has four seasons, but the length of each season is equivalent to two seasons on Earth. In the future, people who immigrate to Mars may have to endure the long summer.
Three million kilometers are far away on the earth, but in this vast space, it seems insignificant.
At this distance, the asteroid belt looks very spectacular. The boundless asteroids are sparse and dense, aligned around the sun and arranged into a huge ring.
Moreover, the star rings seem to be arranged very closely on the surface, but when they are actually approaching, they can only be seen that they are still very far apart from each other. The distance between one asteroid and another is at least dozens of kilometers.
According to astronomers, when the solar system was just formed, these asteroids that were still in lava were originally a whole. However, Jupiter's gravity was very huge, forcibly tearing them into countless pieces, floating in space and slowly turning, and orbiting the sun, forming a belt of millions of asteroids like today.
The spacecraft approached the asteroid belt, passed it again, and surpassed it to the outermost layer of the asteroid belt before stopping. The engine started briefly, adjusted its flight attitude, and kept operating in synchronization with the asteroid.
The detection device was activated to conduct detailed detection of the planetary belt.
"We chose these ten asteroids after detection," the astronomer pointed to the three-dimensional imaging results and explained to all the team members, "It can be seen that other asteroids are either too big or rotate too fast,
We will push it out of orbit. I number these ten asteroids. They are all around one kilometer in size and are more regular in shape, which helps us calculate flight trajectories, control them, and hit Mars at the places we need.
In addition, their rotation is relatively slow, which reduces the difficulty of us pushing it out of orbit. More importantly, we chose the outermost layer of the planet belt, which is the farthest away from the sun. Therefore, these ten asteroids are mainly carbonaceous stars. Through the detection data, it can be determined that there is a large amount of water inside. Pushing these planets out of orbits and colliding with Mars can not only achieve the purpose of heating up, but also bring more water to Mars, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone."
He had already said this when he chose his target. The team members listened to his explanation but did not respond.
"Then let it be. Please ask Captain Wang to arrange the task in detail."
Seeing the astronomers retreating continuously, the team members breathed a sigh of relief, cheered up, and listened to the captain's arrangement of tasks.
Captain Wang walked forward and pointed at the asteroid No. 6 with his light spot.
"This is our first target. The six asteroid, which has a diameter of five kilometers, is the largest this time. And it contains a lot of earth ice, so we list it as the top target..."
After the meeting, the members of the special forces team spent a day familiarizing themselves with their work. The spacecraft moved closer to the sixth asteroid again.
Overall, the six asteroid presents a pebbly-shaped bellows, with five hours per week rotation.
The first group of team members put on space suits and carried small thrust rocket engines on their backs and left the spacecraft. With everyone's concern, they carefully moved closer to the asteroid.
Behind the five team members, a large box was dragged.
There is no gravity in space, and the thrust of the rocket engine cannot be too high. Otherwise, astronauts may be bounced out by this thrust and become a meteor drifting in the universe.
"I am one, and I am close to the sixth asteroid. It is confirmed that this is a carbon-based ice asteroid." The voice of the captain of the Operation Squad came from the internal telephone, "We are about to board the asteroid and we will contact you later."
From the telephone, the heavy breath of the operation team came. They nervously controlled the vent of the rocket thruster and slowly approached.
Their landing locations have been carefully analyzed and are the best focus points calculated by the supercomputer. The landing error cannot exceed one meter.
Through the monitor, everyone in the land held their breath and watched them move with concern.
The captain was at the front and landed first. When he was on the landing, he kicked the ground and almost jumped up again.
Seeing that he was almost bounced back, everyone's heart tightened.
"No. 1, No. 1, be careful not to exert force! This asteroid is too small and does not have much gravity!" The astronomer lowered his voice to remind him, fearing that he would disturb his movements.
"I understand! I've adjusted, okay, I've boarded the asteroid. I've already landed!"
The people watching inside the spacecraft finally relaxed their tense faces and smiled. But they didn't dare to laugh out loud, and there were still four team members who had not landed yet.
No. 1 took out a speargun from his back and pointed it at the ice layer under his feet.
This is a special salmon made by the Universe. It is filled with high-pressure gas. Just press the trigger. The gun stab will fly out under the action of the high-pressure gas, enough to pierce the thin steel plate of seven millimeters thick.
No. 1's finger moved, and the gun stab shot out from the barrel like lightning.
Ice chips flew, and the ten-centimeter-long gun stab drilled deep into the ice surface, leaving only a small hole. Inside the ice layer, the gun stab arrow popped up a barb, firmly holding on to the ice.
No. 1 kicked the ice hard and pulled the rope tied to the end of the gun's spear.
The gun that drilled into the ice remained motionless.
He threw the long rope out, let the other team members grab the rope, buckle it on the safety belt, and float toward the surface of the ice.
At this time, they no longer need to keep turning on the rocket pusher.
Five team members stood on the ice and dragged the big box over. The lid of the box was opened and they took out a high-energy laser gun from it. Under the box was a whole hydrogen fuel cell.
"Let's go to the left, up, okay! It's here! Punch the hole!" In the spacecraft, the orbital computing expert commanded the operation team to make subtle adjustments on the ice.
No. 1 nodded to the team member holding the high-energy laser gun: "Let's start!"
The team member adjusted the energy divergence thickness of the laser, walked forward, and used the aiming device to point the muzzle at the red dot. The aiming system received data from the spacecraft, the position, angle of the muzzle, and little by little coincided with the coming data.
He pointed his finger lightly, and a high-energy laser flashed and disappeared.
A large amount of water vapor emerged from the hole and splashed out around. The gas hit the team members and blew him shakingly. Only under the protection of the safety rope did he barely not be blown down.
It was too cold in space, and a large amount of water vapor was quickly condensed back. The water vapor that had not had time to escape was attached to the hole that had just ejected, forming small ice particles.
After three expansion adjustments, the operation team finally took out an ice cave with a diameter of fifteen centimeters and a depth of more than two hundred meters on the ice layer.
Then, under the command of the spacecraft, they also took out the same size and depth ice cave at two other positions.
The second team set out, and they rolled out a three-story building-sized device from the cargo hold, leaning towards the sixth asteroid. With the support of the operation team, they successfully climbed onto the ice.
An operator got into the driver's seat, manipulated the big guy, and stretched out three
, slowly penetrated into the ice cave.
The laser reduced the energy output, melted the ice inside the ice cave and wrapped the tube. Finally, this three-story big guy was firmly fixed on the asteroid.
The whole action seems simple, but it is very complex in reality. It requires extremely high accuracy.
The action team lasted all day and completed fixing the entire device.
The next day, they rested, and the engineers adjusted the equipment on the ground positioning instruments, measuring equipment and control systems.
All data is collected into supercomputers to accurately calculate the power of the propulsion system. After all the calculation results are released, a calculation model will be formed, and the spacecraft can instantly control the trajectory of the asteroid.
In a week, they finally installed three power propulsion devices onto the asteroid. Everything was ready, with only the final ignition.
The spacecraft left the asteroid Six and flew to a place a thousand kilometers away from it.
They have established a complete model of the motion of the asteroid, from revolution, rotation, and interstellar gravity collected by the instrument, without any missing. When the asteroid is in operation, the simulation system is also operating at the same time, and based on the ground data collected by the ground probes left on the asteroid, they conduct real and simulated operational verification.
After two weeks of fine-tuning, the control expert corrected some subtle errors.
The day-filling plan is officially implemented!
All the spacecraft members stood in the control room and were excitedly staring at the Asteroid Six in the distance. The moment that changed the history of Mars was right in front of them!
"Ten, nine, eight...two, one, ignite!"
Although there were only a dozen of them in the spacecraft, they still performed the operation process without any hesitation.
When the commander-in-chief announced the ignition, the button was pressed down.
To be continued...