Black tech predators

Chapter 343 [The Water Source Problem of Venus]

"Comfortable!"

Li Peng happily took a bath at the outpost base. It is definitely a luxury to take a bath on the back of the moon like on the earth.

About two hours later, Li Peng rested at the outpost base for a period of time. The transport truck was fully loaded with 105 cube-shaped ice materials and was already waiting to leave at any time. The total carrying capacity this time was 52.5 tons.

Liu Yiming also set off with Li Peng. He had already handed over the work here, and another half-year deadline had passed. This time, both of them had to return to Earth.

Five days later, the Skyblade spacecraft once again arrived at the base of the Mendeleev impact crater loaded with thousands of tons of supplies.

This time, Tianqing Technology Group brought a large number of siege equipment suitable for working on the moon from the earth. In addition, it also brought refining and separation equipment. For helium-three resources, the money has already been transferred to Tianqing Technology.

As a technology group positioned by Gu Cheng as a trans-planetary technology group, Tianqing's reputation is well established.

After unloading all the goods carried this time, 68 people including Li Peng and Liu Yiming boarded the Skyblade spacecraft, and this time also 89 people came, 12 of them returned to work on the moon for the second time, and the rest People are the first to land on the moon, and they are as excited as Li Peng and his first visitors.

"The next time I come here, it will change again." Li Peng, who boarded the spaceship, looked back at the general base, witnessing its scale from scratch to its current scale, and he was filled with emotion, but more So proud to be a part of it.

This is the supreme sense of honor of a human pioneer.

"Next time we may have a chance to make a new spaceship to land on the moon." Liu Yiming said with a smile. They already knew that the company was stepping up the production of the second Skyblade spaceship, which was all thanks to the third brother and other countries paying for it.

Twenty minutes later, the Skyblade spacecraft lifted off again, carrying 68 crew members who had been working on the back of the moon for nearly six months and returned to Earth.

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During the return of the Skyblade spacecraft, Venus once again ushered in visitors from the earth after many years. Tianqing Technology Group launched the first probe to Venus in a low-key manner at the beginning of this year.

This incident has not attracted much attention in the public eye, because the attention of the moon is definitely the focus of space exploration nowadays, especially after the third brother landed on the moon this year, he brought the joyful atmosphere to the back of the moon.

As for the planet Venus, after a small amount of exploration was carried out during the US-Soviet space hegemony stage in the last century, all major space powers in the world later lacked interest in this planet.

Because of the harsh environment and high temperature of Venus, the cost of exploring this planet has soared. The probes launched in the early years could only work normally for a few 10 minutes before breaking down.The Soviet Union launched several probes one after another and successfully landed on the surface of the planet. Like the previous probes, the equipment failed after a while.

However, the general public did not pay much attention to this incident of Tianqing Technology, but the European Space Agency, NASA, the Russian Space Agency and some astronomical institutions are quite concerned about it, especially some scholars who are keen on Venus research.

Tianqing Technology's sudden visit to Venus was quite unexpected to the space agencies and scientific circles of various countries, even incomprehensible. As a technology giant that is aggressively entering into commercial space exploration, the normal logic should not be like this. Even if it is exploring extraterrestrial planets, is it Shouldn't it be Mars?
The purgatory-like world of Venus, when describing the horror of this planet, it is difficult not to use some extremely exaggerated adjectives. What is the scariest planet that people can imagine in their minds? To make matters worse, such a planetary world would have no commercial development value even if flowers came out.

If the outside world knew about Gu Cheng's "Stars Project", they might not think so.

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Shangdu, Tianqing Industrial Center, Extraterrestrial Detection and Control Center.

"Mr. Gu!"

"Hello, Mr. Gu!"

Gu Cheng, who was dressed in plain clothes, came to the control center, and the staff he met along the way greeted him.

"How's the situation?"

As soon as Gu Cheng arrived, the person in charge of the Venus Exploration Project had already walked towards him, and immediately responded after hearing the words: "Fortunately, the 'Star Express' successfully achieved a soft landing yesterday, but even with the A large number of the most advanced new materials such as carbon acetylene alloy, but the corrosion and destructive power of the detector is already amazing, and I am afraid that it can only last for about half a month before losing contact."

"Half a month..." Gu Cheng nodded after thinking for a while, and added: "That's enough. What I'm most concerned about is how much water vapor is in the atmosphere of the planet. The Russian data is still unreliable."

Prior to this, the Russians probably had the most detailed data on this planet in the world. After all, during the space hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union in the last century, the former Soviet Union had explored Venus several times.

Gu Cheng is indeed most concerned about the water source on Venus. There must be no liquid water on this planet at present, and the dense atmosphere makes it impossible to see any landforms on the surface from outer space.

Nowadays, with the deepening of human exploration of space, it has become more and more recognized that water problems are common in all major planets in the solar system, not to mention that there are water sources on the moon, and even Mercury, which is the closest to the sun, has meteorite impact craters in its polar regions. In the permanent yin area, where the sun never shines, there must be more or less water.

Needless to say, Venus, there must be a source of water, but it will not exist in liquid form on this planet.

"The probe landed softly yesterday, and we have obtained a large amount of data on Venus. The information obtained in just this day is several times richer than the data obtained by all previous human explorations of Venus." The person in charge of the project said immediately .

Gu Cheng immediately followed him to the console, and the other party called up the data.

"The latest data shows that more than 90% of the atmosphere of Venus is still composed of carbon dioxide, which is extremely dense. Among them, nitrogen only accounts for about 4.12% of the atmosphere of Venus, but it is about 20% more than the nitrogen in the earth's atmosphere. At the top of the atmosphere, there are clouds made of sulfuric acid, and sulfuric acid clouds have a strong ability to reflect light, which is how the bright light of Venus comes from."

"Secondly, the atmosphere below is too dense, and less than 3% of the sunlight can reach the surface, and it is basically impossible to feel the difference between day and night. This is the photo returned by the probe."

After speaking, the person in charge called up the pictures, and while Gu Cheng looked at them one by one, he went on to say: "We deduced it with a supercomputer based on the data we have obtained so far, and it initially shows that in the early days of the formation of the solar system, the water on Venus It is more abundant than the earth. At that time, the sun was different from today, Venus was still in the habitable zone, and there was a liquid water ocean on the surface of the planet. But as time went by, the habitable zone continued to move outward, and Venus reached the habitable zone After taking the inside edge, things started to take a turn for the worse.”

At this moment, Luo Sheng looked at the dynamic simulation demonstration image he called up.

"The temperature rises, the ocean evaporates, and a large amount of water vapor enters the atmosphere, and the heat preservation ability of water vapor is extremely strong, which leads to a further increase in surface temperature, which intensifies the evaporation of seawater, more water vapor enters the atmosphere, and more heat Trapped on the planet and unable to dissipate, such a disgusting cycle will eventually become an out-of-control greenhouse and enter an irreversible trend."

"As all the water evaporates into the atmosphere, the carbon on the planet loses its insulating layer. Over time, the water vapor in the atmosphere is exposed to enough sunlight. The charged particles of the solar wind continue to electrolyze the water, breaking it down into hydrogen and Oxygen. Hydrogen escapes into space, and oxygen combines with carbon to form carbon dioxide, which eventually replaces the original dominant component of water vapor in the atmosphere and becomes the current composition of the atmosphere."

It is worth mentioning that as the sun continues to expand, the habitable zone will move further outward, and the earth will reach the inner edge of the habitable zone sooner or later.At that time, under the circumstances of natural evolution, the current Venus will be the portrayal of the future Earth.

Still, it's too far away for humans.

"How much water is left now? Have you come up with reliable results?" Gu Cheng asked immediately. He is a pragmatist. How much water is left on Venus is crucial to the future colonization of this planet. Impact.

Without water, the colonization of Venus would be greatly delayed, so we could only transport water from the distant Saturn. Even if the technology tree was fully opened, it would not have much effect within half a century.

Hearing this, the person in charge of the Venus Exploration Program replied: "The current analysis of the concentration of water vapor in the atmospheric composition of Venus, preliminary data show that it is about 2.079 million cubic kilometers that have been transformed into liquid water."

Hearing this data, Gu Cheng couldn't help being stunned for a while, and said, "So much? There are still 2 million yuan... It seems that there is not a lot of water on Venus in the early stage."

In other words, the water resources currently existing in the dense atmosphere of Venus are equivalent to about 15% of the earth. The current total water volume of the earth is about 13.86 billion cubic kilometers, and 1 cubic kilometer of water weighs 10 billion tons. The water gathered together is equivalent to a large water polo of 1384 kilometers.

Looking at the data, Gu Cheng couldn't help crossing his arms, and said to himself: "About 15%, it's beyond my expectation that there are so many, it's enough, it's enough."

Although the earth only has about 15% of the total water on the earth, don't forget that 96.5% of the water sources on the earth today exist in the ocean, and only about 3% of the fresh water resources, and about 70% of this part of the fresh water resources Located in Antarctica.

In Gu Cheng's eyes, the 2 million cubic kilometers of water resources on Venus are not only a lot, but extremely abundant.

Since it is possible to intervene in the energy of the planetary level, and thus to intervene in the atmosphere of the planet, then the precipitation in the region can be precisely controlled. It can be used to intervene in the atmospheric movement of Venus, so as to easily mobilize the distribution of 2 million cubic meters of water in the form of precipitation or evaporation on a global scale.

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(End of this chapter)