My encyclopedia entry has come true

Chapter 97 Moon, Highways, Minerals
He Xiao once tried to make up an atmosphere or an ocean for the moon...

But the difficulty of billions of readers and the impossible trust rate made him flinch.

It is still too difficult to fabricate something that violates the rules of the real world.

If the system wants to deduce the atmosphere for the moon, I am afraid that I have to change the laws of physics or change the mass of the moon. Otherwise, the gravity of the moon is not worthy of having an atmosphere at all, and the atmosphere will have escaped to the blue star or space long ago...

But the problem is that the moon is originally a satellite that is abnormally large compared to the parent star. If the mass of the blue star is increased, the blue star will not be able to hold, so the mass of the blue star must be increased... The mass of the blue star increases, and It will lead to a series of problems that need to be re-deduced...

The same is true for the ocean. Without an atmosphere, water cannot exist in a liquid state. If you insist on deduction, you need to make too many changes to the moon.

The things inside Kelin Crater originally existed and complied with the laws of physics. They were not created by He Xiao using the entries, but it was thanks to the entries that they were discovered so smoothly.

He first passed the entry test to confirm that there are indeed water ice resources here, and then fabricated the water ice pass...

As for the others, the discovery of the Colin Crater has not been announced, and it is difficult to compile it.

Of course, if it is not enough in the later stage, he can modify the reserve through the entry...

Like increasing the storage of water ice or nitrogen ice by an order of magnitude or two...

With the resources, how to transport them to the base is a problem. Although the power of Queen NO.13 is enough to move by itself, it can't carry much cargo. This time it only brought back a few hundred kilograms of samples...

Decay nuclear batteries, the main advantages are strong battery life, strong stability, can be used for 10-15 years, and automatically release a lot of heat, but in fact, the power that can generate electricity is not high, the power of 2000W is comparable to that of ordinary electric batteries on Bluestar. Compared with cars, they are much worse. If it is not for the low friction caused by the low gravity of the moon, the quality of Queen NO.13 will not be able to move at all...

For this reason, Hawke Island once again delivered Queen NO.18, Queen NO.19 and Queen NO.20. These three lunar rovers are hydrogen energy lunar rovers!Of course, it also comes with solar wings, and it is better to use solar energy as much as possible.

Due to the discovery of water ice on the moon, hydrogen energy vehicles have become especially popular. They can use the hydrogen and oxygen resources produced by the decomposition of water at solar power generation sites as driving power.

The biggest advantage of hydrogen energy is that it is environmentally friendly. The only compound produced by hydrogen-oxygen fuel is water vapor. The water vapor can be cooled and recycled into water. At the same time, the water vapor can also provide heat for the lunar rover, preventing it from malfunctioning due to ultra-low temperature. ...

Their body weight is about 5 tons, and the power on the Blue Star can reach 120 horsepower!Cargo capacity up to 4 tons!
Due to the smaller gravity of the moon, their cargo capacity on the moon will be higher, theoretically it can reach more than 20 tons...

However, since there are no roads on the moon, it is difficult to drive on the lunar soil, so at this stage, their cargo capacity is only about 4 tons, which is about the same as that on the Blue Star...

And the driving speed is relatively slow.

There is no way, everything is difficult at the beginning, and the accumulation of resources at the beginning is the most difficult.

When more and more resources are available in the future, there will be a snowball effect. At that time, the resources produced can be used to build various infrastructures, so that the efficiency of all aspects will be greatly improved.

Now they have no cement, no asphalt, and naturally they cannot build real roads, but the 23th, [-]th, and [-] lunar rovers all have mechanical arms and large shovels similar to excavators, and they can automatically level the road during driving .

So a "dirt road" from the base of Hawk Island to the interior of Colin Crater appeared!

This dirt road is about 2200 meters long and should be the first "road" on the moon!

Through this "highway", three hydrogen energy lunar rovers, under the remote control of the astronauts, continuously transport water ice and dry ice minerals to the Hawke Island base, but these minerals must be transported at night. During the day, the temperature is too high , sublimated and escaped directly on the way...

Nitrogen ice cannot even be transported at night, because its freezing point is minus 209 degrees, and only the permanent shadow area can reach this temperature. Once out of the permanent shadow area, it will sublimate and escape immediately, and its location is relatively deep, so it is currently mined less than...

If you want to mine nitrogen ice, you have to make a special mining machine and put it in a tank inside the permanent shadow area, so as to ensure that it does not sublimate and escape.

At the same time, Queen NO.13 and other earlier models of lunar vehicles, under the control of astronauts and Blue Star personnel, continued to explore the Blue Star around the base, looking for various resources and minerals.

1.8 kilometers to the north of the base, a small basaltic ilmenite deposit was found with a high grade, the main component of which is ferrous titanate (FeTiO3) content of more than 20%, and the reserve is estimated to be more than 80 tons...

This is actually not good luck. Ilmenite is too common on the moon. The titanium reserves are estimated to exceed 100 trillion tons, while the titanium reserves on the blue star are estimated to be only about 20 billion tons...

The titanium on the moon basically exists in the form of basaltic ilmenite iron titanate (FeTiO3), so it is not surprising to find such a small ilmenite. In fact, they found far more than this one ilmenite. , but this one has the highest taste, the closest distance, the reserves are not bad, and has a high mining value...

5.2 kilometers to the southwest, an anorthosite mine was discovered, with a reserve of about 150 million tons, rich in potassium, rare earth and phosphorus, etc., but it is not of much use for the time being.

2.5 kilometers to the southeast, an iron oxide ore was discovered, with a reserve of about 100 million tons, but the taste is far from the high-grade hematite on Hawke Island. It only has 22% iron content, which can only be considered on Blue Star. lean iron ore...

But here is the moon, the grade of the mineral may not be so important, the transportation cost is the key, this iron ore is close enough, so it may be worth more than high-grade iron ore!

Of course, there is helium 3 in the lunar soil all over the place, but the distribution of helium 3 in the lunar soil is relatively scattered and the content is low. With the current facilities and technology of the base, it does not have the ability to mine, and Blue Star currently has no The development of controllable nuclear fusion technology and the extraction of helium 3 are of little significance.

However, when the time and technology mature, this may be the most important mineral on the moon. The content of helium 3 in the lunar soil is estimated to be 715000 tons, and the energy generated by the fusion of 100 tons of helium 3 is enough for all Blue Star humans to use a Years, that is to say, these helium 3 are enough to keep human beings energy-free for thousands of years!

Moreover, for every ton of helium 3 extracted from the lunar soil, 6300 tons of hydrogen, 70 tons of nitrogen and 1600 tons of carbon can be obtained.

These by-products will also be important resources for the production and life of the base!

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This weekend, first update 2 chapters, and add updates.

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