Airport Meow

Chapter 446 Roaming 4
The Orient Express began to fly around the moon, and the only thing Bei Haiyang had to do was to keep the plane in a position where the sun was slanting.

There is no atmosphere on the moon, and the lunar surface is directly exposed to space.Therefore, the temperature of the lunar surface changes drastically. During the hottest daytime, the lunar surface temperature can reach 127°C; when the nighttime is the coldest, the temperature can drop to minus 183°C.

Sudden cold and sudden heat can be balanced by a protective cover for new human superpowers, but it is very dangerous for a huge body; theoretically, the modified aircraft is equipped with an internal constant temperature system that can withstand such a large temperature difference , but whether the millions of components inside the aircraft can survive the temperature difference of more than 3 degrees is a question mark?

He is also a senior pilot, and he is very aware of the possible dangers of the plane returning to the atmosphere. The more he knows, the more he is afraid; A target, just between plus and minus 50 degrees.

It’s not that it must not be possible, but try to avoid frequent access to areas with excessive temperature differences.

Orient Express 01 has turned into a sun-avoiding plane, following the rotation of the moon and its revolution around the earth, keeping itself forever on the twilight line when the sun is about to set.

In any place on the moon, the time of day is about 14 days on the earth, and the time of night is about 14 days on the earth.

Due to the dense atmosphere on the earth, sunlight will be scattered and refracted when passing through the atmosphere, so the sky is still bright after the sun sets in the evening, and it will not get dark quickly; in the morning, the sky is already bright before the sun rises , and then the sun came up and it was bright.

The change of day and night of the moon is different. Since the moon has no atmosphere, the day and night of the moon change rapidly. Once the sun "sets", the moon becomes dark instantly; once the sun rises, the moon surface is instantly covered with sunlight.

The junction of darkness and light is the twilight line, um, it may be more appropriate to describe it as a black and white line.But the twilight line is constantly moving, not fixed; so when a person stands still in one place, the temperature of the surrounding environment will either rise or fall, and experience temperatures of minus 14 degrees and as high as 183 degrees in the course of 127 days. peak change.

Why does the space roaming time have to be set within 20 days?That's why.When the plane puts the outboard passengers on the moon, the timer starts! A cycle of 14 days, returning to the twilight line again, is the time to board the plane again.

During these 14 days, the space passenger plane will not come to pick them up, because they may be in the high temperature of up to [-] degrees, or in the low temperature of minus [-] degrees, such a complex environment is far from being called a modification of the space shuttle It's dangerous for airliners.

The essence is that humans use ordinary civil aviation airliners to complete the mission of the space shuttle, which itself is an expedient strategy.

This kind of modified aircraft has its own constant temperature system, which can keep the body parts stable. The aircraft is not afraid of being too cold. The ambient temperature in space is already below minus 2 degrees, but it is very afraid of changes in overheating and overcooling. This will affect the constant temperature of the aircraft. The system puts a heavy strain on it, and accidents often happen because of it.

There have been many similar accidents in the previous space flights, so for the pilots, they would rather drive the plane to pursue a constant temperature than surf the moon and let the body test the plane back and forth in a temperature difference of nearly 3 degrees constant temperature regulation.

It is best to fly around the twilight line, because the temperature here is closest to the body temperature, which can minimize the output of the aircraft's constant temperature system and save the most fuel.

The ground is getting closer and closer, and there is no designated location as to where it will land. Anyway, it is around the dusk line, but Bei Haiyang still hopes to find a high ground, which is easy to collect and release people, and is conducive to the transmission of signals.

Spaceflight is not as simple as imagined. Once in space, countless problems come one after another. If they are not new human beings with superpowers, they can already deal with many problems alone. Just getting out of the cabin will consume countless energy.

Haiyang Bei is looking for a relatively suitable hovering position, he is looking for a brighter place, not a shadow.

When observing the moon through a telescope, you will clearly see the salient features of the moon's surface: some areas are bright, some areas are dark, and large and small bright and dark areas are interlaced all over the surface of the moon.

Such features on the lunar surface have been observed through telescopes hundreds of years ago.At that time, people thought that those large dark areas were the oceans and oceans on the moon; the small dark areas were regarded as lakes and bays on the moon, and they were named after them.

These names are still used today.It was later known that the oceans and bays on the moon are completely different from those on the earth, and there is not even a drop of water there.

The dark areas on the moon (the so-called seas, oceans, lakes, and bays) are actually some plains and lowlands of different sizes; because the relatively young rocks formed by lava flows are widely distributed in those places, and they are relatively low-lying. The reflection rate of sunlight is low, and it appears dark black compared with the surrounding area.

The bright areas on the lunar surface are the plateaus and mountains on the moon; their components are mainly relatively ancient rocks, which have a strong ability to reflect sunlight and appear very bright in comparison.

Craters are widely distributed, which is the most prominent feature on the surface of the moon, also called moon craters, which were smashed out by meteorites.

The altitude of Orient Express 01 was getting lower and lower, and the speed was getting slower and slower. He tried his best to find a relatively high place with relatively flat terrain.

The lunar crater is approximately circular, which is very similar to the terrain of the crater on the earth.In the middle of the crater, the terrain is low and flat, and some small peaks are distributed; the inner side of the crater is relatively steep, and the outer side is gentler. Around some craters, many bright stripes radiate outward.

Most of the craters on the moon are named after famous astronomers, such as Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Plato, Tycho, Zu Chongzhi, Zhang Heng and other craters, but he has limited knowledge and has no time to distinguish them. To him they all look the same.

He finally found a flat highland, which is rare on the surface of the moon full of pockmarks. Now it has been 2 days since he left the earth, and it is time to land.

"Eastern Pacific Aviation Control, this is Orient Express 01, the landing point has been found, the system check is normal, please open the cabin."

After a period of delay, the ground replied, "Good guy, if you deviate a little bit from Orient Express 01, you should go to the back of the moon! Agree to open the cabin application, everything depends on your own judgment."

(End of this chapter)