Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 474 Landing on Mars
2 month 12 day.

The two sister spacecraft "Exploration" and "Qiuzhi" of the "Zhiri" spacecraft were completed at the new Chang'an space station.The Human Innovation Alliance, which owns three sub-light-speed spacecraft, has started the planning of the Mars base.

2 month 15 day.

Chaser and Discovery were fully loaded with 4000 tons of material, spanned 1.7 million kilometers, and reached the Mars synchronous orbit space station.

"Mars space station, here is the Sunseeker spacecraft, requesting to enter the port and berth."

"The Mars space station has received it and is allowed to enter the port to berth. The berthing area is the 10th line berthing area."

"receive."

At this time, the Mars synchronous orbit space station has a team of 30 people stationed here, including 15 space station staff, 5 space army soldiers, and 10 scientific research personnel.

After the completion of the berthing of the "Sunday" spacecraft, the Discovery spacecraft will berthing at the port.

This time, the mission of landing on Mars and establishing a Mars base was led by the experienced Fang Haibo and Liao Qingsong. The second team of the Space Expeditionary Force consisted of 10 astronauts.

After the Sunsun spacecraft unloads supplies and the second team of the Space Expeditionary Force, it will return to Blue Star; while the Discovery spacecraft will temporarily stay at the Mars space station.

After Liao Qingsong and Fang Haibo got ready, they inspected the three landing spacecraft, one of which was the Qinglong-class spacecraft they were on, and the other two were Xuanwu-class spacecraft.

And the area where they landed this time is the Mars base remotely built by Sun Chaser last time. The Mars base is located in the southern part of the Utopia Plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars. About 200 kilometers to the south is the Ixidi Plain, and to the east is the Elysian Plain. Aung San.

The data detected by the previous detector equipment show that the southern part of the Utopia Plain is dominated by aeolian and lava accumulation plains.

"Are you ready?" Liao Qingsong asked loudly to the members of the second team of the Space Expeditionary Force.

"Ready." Everyone replied in unison.

"Okay, ready to go."

Led by Liao Qingsong and Fang Haibo, everyone entered the life support cabin of the Qinglong class spacecraft one by one. Landing on Mars is obviously easier than other planets.

首先火星的表面重力只有蓝星的38%左右，其次火星的大气层非常稀薄，火星的大气层由95.32%二氧化碳、2.7%氮、1.6%氩和0.13%氧组成；火星大气的密度只有蓝星4%左右，总质量更是只有1%左右，而大气层厚度是128公里左右。

The weak surface gravity and thin atmosphere are of great help to the landing and departure of the spacecraft. It is estimated that the fuel consumed by the spacecraft from the ground of Mars to outer space will not exceed 20% of the Blue Star.

However, if a mass projector can be built on Mars, the exchange of matter between the Martian ground and outer space will be very simple.

The Qinglong-class spacecraft will first go to the Mars base in the Mars Utopia Plain. Due to the thin atmosphere of Mars, the airbag landing method used on the Blue Star is not suitable. The landing spacecraft will use the reverse thrust engine to land. This is the same as the spacecraft landing on the moon. in much the same way.

The spacecraft rushed into the atmosphere of Mars with the flames rubbing against the atmosphere.

"50 kilometers to the surface."

"Start thrust reverser engine."

"Thrust reverser engine on."

The three auxiliary engines of the spaceship spewed out light blue flames immediately, braking and slowing down the high-speed Qinglong-class spaceship abruptly, after three consecutive deceleration operations.

The Qinglong-class spacecraft finally reached about 500 meters away from the landing site. The cushion airbag of the spacecraft bounced off instantly, and the spacecraft landed successfully soon.Immediately afterwards, the other two Xuanwu-class spacecraft also successfully landed on the landing field of the Mars base.

Liao Qingsong and others began to leave the life support cabin and put on space suits outside the cabin.

"Everyone, get ready to leave the cabin, Li Xuan, you stay on the spaceship." Liao Qingsong ordered.

"Yes."

Liao Qingsong and Fang Haibo took the lead through the airtight hatch of the spaceship and officially stepped onto the ground of Mars. Looking around, they saw a brown-red desert terrain. The sky was much darker than the blue star. A small irregular "moon".

The blue light sphere is the sun. The reason why the sun appears blue is mainly caused by the high carbon dioxide content in the Martian atmosphere, and the irregular "moons" with one large and one small are Phobos and Deimos.

However, Liao Qingsong, Fang Haibo and others did not stop to watch the scenery of Mars, but quickly entered the Mars base and arrived at the main control cabin of the Mars base.

"Hai Bo, take someone to check the various parts of the base first, especially the power, water supply and air system, as well as the protection and life support systems." Liao Qingsong turned his head and instructed Fang Haibo.

"Okay, leave it to me." Fang Haibo hurriedly took an astronaut to stay in the master control cabin, and they began to check various systems through the self-test system that comes with the Mars base.

[The power supply system is normal...the backup power supply system is normal...the water supply system...] Fang Haibo looked at the feedback from the self-check system and found no problems.

On the other side, Liao Qingsong began to take the remaining six astronauts, and began to carry the delivered materials from the two Xuanwu-class spaceships.

In the evening, the blue sun was already fading away, and the temperature on the gravel plain near the Mars base dropped sharply. Even though the astronauts were wearing spacesuits, their sensor systems could still detect the sudden drop in temperature.

"Attention all members, attention all members, a sandstorm is about to approach the base, please enter the safe zone."

"Repeat..."

Liao Qingsong activated the short-wave communication system: "Everyone confirms that they are in the safe zone, please reply."

"Kay Rucker received."

"Huang Zongwu received it."

"..."

"Okay, pay attention to safety." Liao Qingsong saw that all the researchers were positioned in the security of the base, and felt relieved.

Soon the condensed matter shield of the base was activated, and a hemispherical shield completely enveloped the base. Although the sandstorm on Mars is a paper tiger, the dust carried by the sandstorm may affect the instruments of the base. If it is an old-fashioned solar panel , It's almost nighttime under the sandstorm, but the power supply system of the Mars base is a nuclear fusion reactor, so don't worry about the impact of the sandstorm.

In less than 10 minutes, the overwhelming Martian dust storm swept over.

"It's like a giant beast." Kay Rucker glanced at the sandstorm and said.

Huang Zongwu beside him said with a smile: "In a poem, this is the feeling of black clouds overwhelming the city."

Soon the sandstorm engulfed the base, but everyone didn't worry too much about this problem. This sandstorm was at most equivalent to Blue Star's 3rd to 4th wind.

Even if the astronauts are in the sandstorm, it will not be affected much. The only problem to worry about is getting lost. The magnetic field of Mars is very weak, and the compass and the like are useless at all, and they can only rely on the satellite positioning system.

However, according to the safety regulations, base personnel are not allowed to move in non-safe areas under such circumstances, unless forced to do so.

At 19:12, the sky has completely dimmed, and some researchers have already started preparing for dinner.

On the other hand, Liao Qingsong and Fang Haibo reported the relevant situation to the Mars space station in the main control cabin. Today, the base encountered a sandstorm, which was reported by the weather satellite. The communication with the Mars space station is very important. They must regularly report the situation of the base to the Mars space station.

(End of this chapter)