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The re-launched spaceship climbed all the way to the sky, flew out of the Mariner Grand Canyon, and flew towards the Tarsis Plateau thousands of kilometers away to the west.

A few days later, Mount Esquerels, which was erupting before, had stopped, and the flowing magma had already cooled under the extremely low temperature on the surface of Mars and turned into hard rock.

Han Yuan controlled the spaceship to cross Mount Escalels and all the way to Mount Olympus, the largest mountain on Mars.

Strictly speaking, Mount Olympus does not belong to the Tarsis Plateau. It is located on the northwest side of the Tarsis Plateau. It is a super-large volcano. It is not only the largest volcano on Mars, but also the highest in the entire solar system. largest mountain.

It's so high that if you stand at the foot of Mount Olympus, you can't look up at the top of the mountain, and if you stand on the top of the mountain, you can't look down at the foot of the mountain.

Because the top of the mountain has been hidden behind the Martian horizon.

Of course, this has something to do with the overall size of Mars. After all, Mars is smaller than the Earth, and the arc of the horizon is also larger. You only need to go to an altitude of [-] meters to observe that Mars is round. In fact, if you want to see the arc of the earth, you need to climb to an altitude of about [-] to [-] meters to see it accurately.

The audience in the live broadcast room followed Han Yuan at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters and looked at the huge mountains on the ground, and all sighed.

[What a big mountain, it's like Mars was punched and raised a huge bag. 】

[Hiss~, is this a volcano? 】

[It is not so much the Olympus Volcano, but the Olympus Plateau. 】

[How much magma does it take to accumulate so much. 】

[In fact, the earth also has this kind of shield volcano, but the scale is not so large. After all, the plate is always moving, and the eruption point of the crater is also moving. 】

[To put it bluntly, the earth is slowly revolving and running around, and Mars can only be held at one point, and the masts and sculls will be wiped out. It took billions of years to accumulate so much. 】

【. . . . .It's very vivid, but it hasn't erupted recently, has it been completely drained? 】

【If the seawater of the earth is drained, will Mount Everest be taller or Mount Olympus taller? 】

[Olympus Mons, the highest point on Mars, is higher than the "Mars datum level", similar to the Earth's sea level, at 21229 meters; the lowest point, the Greek Basin, is 8200 meters lower than the Mars datum level, and the relative distance is 29429 meters. 】

[The highest point on the earth, Mount Everest, is 8844 meters above sea level (my country's standard), and the lowest point, the Mariana Trench, is 10994 meters below sea level, with a relative distance of 19838 meters.So Mount Olympus is still high. 】

[If you want to calculate it this way, Mount Olympus is not the highest mountain in the solar system. The highest is the center of the Rhea Silvia impact crater on Vesta. It is 22.5 kilometers high, which is higher than it. But that doesn't make any sense. 】

[Put this thing on the earth, will the plates of the earth be crushed?Can people climb it? 】

[It depends on which plate it is placed on. The Eurasian continent should be able to bear it, but not necessarily the Australian mainland. 】

【It’s definitely possible to climb up, this mountain is not steep, even a mountain as steep as Mt. Everest can be climbed. 】

Looking at the barrage in the live broadcast room, Han Yuan couldn't help but burst out laughing, wondering why such anti-intellectual questions are always asked and answered.

Even if Mount Olympus is ten times bigger, it won't crush the earth's plates if placed on the earth.

Compared with the self-weight of the plate itself, its weight is still too small, and it is not a drop in the bucket.

As for whether it is possible to climb up, it is probably impossible.

Although the steepness of Mount Olympus is not high, the slope of most areas is only 3-10 degrees, but its height and area are there.

It is not the slope that tests the climbers, but the air pressure and the long climbing process.

The standard atmospheric pressure at sea level on Earth is 101 kilopascals, and the atmospheric pressure on Mount Everest is only about 30% of the standard atmospheric pressure.

That is to say, the oxygen content at the top of Mount Everest is only about 30% of that at sea level, so climbing to the top of Mount Everest is completely impossible for ordinary people. Even professionally trained climbers have to carry oxygen cylinders on their backs. Oxygen cylinders reached the top, accounting for only about 5%.

To climb Mount Olympus, the height is 2.5 times that of Mount Everest. Even if it is placed on the earth, the air will be so thin that people cannot breathe independently at such a height.

Even the Boeing 3000, which can fly to an altitude of 747 meters, can fly to an altitude of [-] meters, and it is even more impossible to go up on foot.

Who can walk to the stratosphere with a few down jackets and crutches?
Even if he has a physique of more than 70 points, he may not be able to do it.

Moreover, the diameter of Mount Olympus is more than 600 kilometers. If you really want to climb up from the foot of the mountain, you may have to climb for more than half a year.

Under the control of the intelligent core, the No. [-] spacecraft landed steadily in the center of the crater of Mount Olympus.

Compared with the fire on the earth, Mount Olympus is really too big, the diameter of the crater alone can reach fifty or sixty kilometers.

Even if it is a huge spaceship, staying inside is like an ant.

Millions of years ago, Olympus Mons erupted once, but millions of years later, the flowing magma had cooled down long ago.

Although the hot magma would have killed all life at the time, life could have survived in the vast crater over time and with dust from Martian storms that spread across the globe.

It's like a newly dug pond on the earth. Even if there are no seedlings in it, fish will still appear in it after a period of time.

In particular, the massive amounts of sulfur and sulfides brought by volcanic eruptions provide an extremely suitable living environment for microorganisms on Mars.

If a suitable Martian storm brings a small amount of life to the crater, they will multiply rapidly in the crater.

The spaceship landed, and Han Yuan walked out of the hatch.

The barren land, the silence, the cooling lava, this is probably the first time to accept guests from the outside world.

Unlike volcanoes on Earth, Olympus Mons' caldera has five large sinkholes, representing the least five eruptions it has had in the past.

These sinkholes are like circles, overlapping alternately, and the place where he landed is the smallest one inside.

It is the smallest, with a diameter of several kilometers. Judging from the previous geological detection, this sinkhole is very young, formed about several million years ago.

A few million years sounds like a long time. After all, human evolution is only 150 million years old, and its existence is enough for human evolution two or three times.

But in terms of geological time, it is indeed very young. The oldest of its four brothers has a diameter of more than [-] million years.

Stepping on the dusty ground, step by step, Han Yuan walked slowly, staring at the surrounding desolation.

Even if Mount Olympus is more than 2 meters high, it can't stop the Martian storm. The dust under your feet is the best proof, and the presence of dust means that microorganisms on Mars can be brought over, so there is a lot of evidence here. There may be life.

[Anchor anchor, what is in front of you on the left?a tree? 】

Suddenly, a barrage caught Han Yuan's attention. Looking in the direction of the barrage, something that looked like a small tree came into his eyes.

The pitch-black pupils shrank suddenly, Han Yuan quickly walked over, and things that were not noticed by the audience before fully entered everyone's eyes.

a tree?Or a grass?

The things in front of him really surprised Han Yuan. He never thought that there would be vegetation on Mars, because the environment is not suitable for the growth of plants.

But what appeared in front of him broke his inherent impression once again.

From the appearance, it looks like a small climbing vine, which is not high and sticks to the ground, showing an orange-red color as a whole.

[This is a tree?No, a vine? 】

[Fuck, is there vegetation on Mars? 】

【Surprised!Plants have been found on Mars! 】

[Unbelievable. 】

[There are microorganisms, it is normal to be able to evolve vegetation, what is so surprising, maybe there are animals living in the ground, like earthworms on the earth or something. 】

[The surface of Mars is not suitable for plant growth at all, not to mention the extremely low temperature, even the cosmic radiation is enough to kill all life over a long period of time. 】

[Then what is this? 】

[Maybe it is a special landform formed by wind, sand and flowing water for a long time?Like weathered rocks on Earth? 】

[Short for 'Sand Sculpture! ']

[Can the wind and sand in your house erode rocks of this shape?Branches and leaves? 】

Han Yuan didn't dare to reach out and touch the thing in front of him. He was worried that it might be a landscape stone carved by the sand and wind brought by the storm of Mars by accident. Like a sand sculpture, it would break when touched.

Although this probability is not high, the probability of growing preparations on Mars is even lower.

After observing for a long time, Han Yuan finally made up his mind and commanded the X-1 industrial robot to go back to fetch the tools, carefully shoveled off the strange thing and the surrounding soil, and brought it back to the spaceship.

Whatever it is, research it.

In the second sub-chamber, Han Yuan wore a virtual helmet and controlled a special robot to study the excavated things.

He will not personally contact any life on alien planets until safety is ensured. Previous microbiological research was also carried out by using virtual helmets to control robots from space.

This can effectively avoid the harm of alien life. Just as the audience in the live broadcast room said, if there is any virus carried by the alien life, I am afraid that the antivirus produced on the earth will not kill it.

The initial detection and analysis did not take long. Through observation, Han Yuan could confirm that this kind of thing that looked like a climbing vine was indeed a kind of life, not a supernatural handicraft created by nature.

The most effective way to confirm it is that he picked a leaf from the top, and the surface of the picked leaf leaked a trace of light red juice, revealing the slightly orange internal structure, with a certain degree of softness and toughness.

These things cannot be given by inanimate sculptures such as stone carvings or sand sculptures.

"It's really amazing that in the harsh environment of Mars, apart from microorganisms, there are other life forms that can survive."

After confirming that this is life, Han Yuan sighed, this small 'Mars Vine' once again refreshed his livable range for life.

You must know that the environment of Mars is quite harsh. On Earth, even in the middle of the Sahara Desert, the environment is worse than Mars.

For life on Mars, the most fatal thing is not the low temperature and lack of atmosphere, but the weak magnetic field of Mars.

For a planet, the weak magnetic field means that it cannot effectively intercept stellar wind and extraneous cosmic rays.

Exposed to these things for a long time, hardly any life known to humans can survive.

But today, the 'Martian vine' found on Mars shatters this perception.

It survived perfectly on Mars.

"Master, it is initially confirmed that according to the comparison of life on Earth, this Martian vine is a type of fungus, similar to mushrooms on Earth."

Xiao Qi's voice sounded in the spaceship, and at the same time, a virtual screen unfolded in front of Han Yuan's eyes.

The above are various observation data, from overall observation to slice observation, with the support of powerful industrial analysis equipment, the structural data of this Martian vine was quickly analyzed.

Surprised for a moment, Han Yuan flipped through the information in front of him.

Martian vine, a new species commanded by a wide audience in the live broadcast room, is not a plant, but a fungus.

Incredible.

Compared with the previously discovered microbial bacteria, fungi are more advanced and live in a harsher environment, although they are also microorganisms.

Structurally, fungi are mostly composed of multiple cells, each cell has a cell wall, nucleus, cell membrane and cytoplasm.

Unlike bacteria, a bacterium is a cell, but it does not have a formed nucleus.

In terms of reproduction, fungi produce offspring by producing a large number of spores. These spores can be scattered everywhere, and each spore can develop into a new individual under the right environment.

Bacteria reproduce by fission, that is, one bacterium divides into two bacteria.

Fungi represent that life on this planet has officially entered the nucleated stage, and subsequent plants, animals and other organisms have evolved based on nucleated cells.

In addition to these things, through microscopic section observation, Han Yuan discovered that there are many organs in the cells of this small life that he can't figure out the purpose of.

What surprised him the most was that he felt that there might be two energy systems in the cells of this Martian vine.

One set is the biochemical energy conversion mechanism previously discovered in those microorganisms that uses sulfur and sulfide as food.

This can be determined, and the previous research on those microbial bacteria can help him determine.

The other set is an inexplicable energy organ, which is hexagonal in shape and only widely exists in the epidermal cells of Martian vines.

Of course, whether this organ is an energy conversion organ is just his speculation based on the cell structure, and it is not known whether it is.

But he's already experimenting.

After spending a few days, Han Yuan finally figured out the purpose of this hexagonal organ.