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Chapter 476 Mission Completed

The moon is peaceful most of the time, unless some meteorite hits it, or humans "throw" something, only these things will break the peace on the moon.

Just like today, someone raced a car so fast that it couldn't fit in Qiu Mingshan, so they rushed directly to the moon.

The Aristarchus Crater is located on the Aristarchus Plateau, in the lunar sea called the "Ocean of Storms". This is where Chang'e-[-] landed, right next to the Aristarchus Crater. On a clearing.

The reason for choosing this place is that the Aristarchus Crater is located to the east of the Herodotus Crater and the Shrotteri Moon Valley, and to the north is a series of winding and narrow Aristarchus Moon Creeks.

It has typical landforms on the moon, including platforms and craters. A Charlotteleigh Canyon runs 160 kilometers across the platform, which is of great research value. It can be said that basically all the geological phenomena on the moon can be understood in this place. up.

This is very beneficial to Huaguo, which has low aerospace technology at this stage, cannot stay on the moon for a long time, and is inconvenient to move on the moon.

This is also the extremely young existence of all lunar craters, so that the solar wind has not yet completely weathered the material excavated by the impact, so the ore exposed at the bottom of the 3.2-kilometer-deep Aristarchus crater The material layer can provide scientists with a unique opportunity to study the diversity of lunar rocks and geological processes.

One of the Chang'e-3 missions this time is to sample the bottom of the pit. If the actual conditions permit, then this mission to the moon can bring back samples of lunar rocks at a depth of [-] kilometers from the moon.

Moreover, the albedo of this crater is close to twice that of other topographic features on the lunar surface, and it can almost be seen by the naked eye. The intensity of reflected light under a large telescope is even more dazzling. It is considered to be the most conspicuous large-scale surface sign on the lunar surface one.Aristarchus Crater can be identified without difficulty even when most of the Moon's surface is in the Earth's illumination.

This kind of extremely high albedo and recognizability will also make it often burst out some UFO incidents, so in a pragmatic attitude, since Huaguo has the ability to come up, then when doing scientific research, we should also figure out this by the way, right? Well.

And... here is the landing site of the plan to return to the moon in 2020 formulated by the United States.

Of course, of course, in fact, this area is still very large, and the American lunar landing spacecraft will not coincide with the Huaguo's detection site at all.

With the current technology of the earth, even if dozens of moon landing ships are sent to detect it, it is not that Hua Guo does not give face to the United States, but simply feels that landing here is very cost-effective.

And the United States chose this place as the landing site for returning to the moon, and it must think so. This is a typical "hawk and rabbit see the same thing".

Yes, it is like that.

At this time, a lunar rover with a simple shape was driving at a high speed of 20 kilometers per hour under the driving of Ye Peng. There was a scene of billowing smoke and dust behind the car.

Looking in the direction the car was coming from, the long ruts were clearly visible.

Although the speed of 20 kilometers per hour is not worth mentioning on the earth, let alone high speed, but considering the complex terrain on the moon, even this speed is considered to be very fast on the moon.

Moreover, this speed can only be reached on a relatively flat lunar surface, and the speed will be lowered in places with large terrain fluctuations or complex terrain.

"Suck... breathe... breathe... breathe..."

It is very quiet here, even the lunar rover they drive is an electric car, and it is also a very quiet existence. The loudest sound they can hear is the sound of each other's breathing coming through the communication system.

The simple bracket at the front of the car is equipped with a dashboard. Ye Peng is the driver, and his side displays speed, direction, slope, power, temperature and other data.

On Wang Ping's side is a [-]-inch display screen, which is the on-board map of the car. On it is a clear map of the moon and the marks of their mission locations.

At this point, the navigation system on the manned lunar rover during the Apollo period was completely exploded.

"Ye Peng, you can stop at the big rock in front, that is the location of our mission." Wang Ping said looking at the mission map.

"Understood, Commander," Ye Peng replied and slowly slowed down the car.

"Sun Wei, this is the Chang'e-[-] lunar rover. Is there any problem in orbit?" Wang Ping asked again.

"No problem, everything is normal, commander." Sun Wei, who was circling in lunar orbit, said.

They are busy here on the moon, and Sun Wei is not idle in the orbit around the moon. Although he cannot participate in the field survey of the moon, there are still a lot of experiments to be done in the orbit around the moon.

Many scientific instruments carried by Shenzhou NO.13 are prepared for him. At the same time, he also needs to ensure the normal operation of the spacecraft in lunar orbit and the successful docking of the Chang'e-[-] lunar module when it returns.

"Commander, the mission location is here." Ye Peng stopped the driveway slowly.

"Well," Wang Ping got out of the car and said, "Go and plug in the permanent detector, and I will collect moon rocks. We have an hour."

"Then we will go to the crater to see if the road found by the lunar probe can be used. If possible, we will carry out the bottom sampling mission tomorrow."

"Okay, no problem, one hour is enough." Ye Peng agreed.

Ye Peng and Wang Ping hopped to the rear of the car, there is a storage box here, all the things they need are here.

Ye Peng took out the detection equipment to be deployed and went to the layout site, while Wang Ping took the up-sampling equipment to the large piece of lunar rock exposed outside the lunar soil.

The movements of both of them are very fast. Although they are restrained by space suits, these things that are not difficult are still not difficult for them.

Relatively speaking, Wang Ping has a little more work. The moon rock needs to be cut with a chainsaw, otherwise such a large piece cannot be taken away, and the cut moon rock has to be put into the corresponding bag, and then returned Just put it in a special storage box.

So Ye Peng came to help Wang Ping after fixing the equipment, turning on its built-in solar panels, and adjusting the operating data.

"...Okay, the last piece is finished, let's go to the crater."

"Okay, I'll put the rock back in the car..."

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This time, Chang'e-278 stayed on the moon for a total of five days, collected a total of [-] kilograms of lunar rocks, and carried out various scientific research activities. It can be said that the mission was successfully completed.

And refreshed many records set during the previous Apollo moon landing, and improved the new record a lot.

If the United States wants to overtake again, it will have to work hard.

When they left the moon, the lunar rover and landing bracket were left on the moon in order to reduce weight, and the Chang'e-[-] lunar landing and return module was abandoned in lunar orbit. If there is no accident, this "Chang'e" will eventually be Will go back to the moon.

After more than 60 hours of flying, they returned to the earth smoothly and landed on the scheduled sea surface. The "Capital" nuclear-powered electromagnetic ejection aircraft carrier that had been waiting there for a long time quickly dispatched a helicopter to pick them up.

So far, Huaguo's first manned mission to the moon has been a complete success.

(End of this chapter)