Chapter 409: Mars Mission (Second Update, Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Three hours passed before I knew it, and soon the film came to an end.
In the finale, when the globes are executed en masse, even the Great Elder and Putin are shaken by the relevant metaphors in the film.
Figures like them at the top of the pyramid are more aware of the difficulties of governing a country, especially when fanatical people are blindly incited.
Of course, even from Chen Xin's point of view, whether it is MZ, ZZ, or DC, these are all means of governance, and different national conditions are suitable for different means, if some people regard the pursuit of MZ as an end, the final result is often not too good.
After the movie, Putin took the lead in getting up and said: "Mr. Chen, congratulations, your company's movies are unexpectedly good, no wonder "The Wandering Earth" has also set off a movie-watching storm in Russia this time, I hope that in the future, we in Russia can see more blockbusters produced by Cybertron Digital." ”
The Great Elder also said with a smile: "Cybertron Digital's films are very Chinese, and China's film industry will rely on Cybertron Digital to lead the way in the future." ”
Chen Xin shook hands with the two bigwigs with a smile, and then said: "Putin and the big chief have praised it!"
After the movie, Chen Xin attended a private dinner specially organized by the chief minister for him and Putin, and the three parties had a frank meeting at the dinner, and made a verbal agreement on the cooperation between China and Russia and the SFA in the future, but Chen Xin also said that once the negotiations between the war and China are over, he will send a delegation to Russia to hold talks with the Russian State Federation.
Although Russia does not have a huge population and market like China, Chen Xin is still interested in the heavy industry and some black technologies left by the former Soviet Union.
What's more. Russia has abundant domestic resources, and some high-energy-consuming industries in the future can be handed over to Russia.
Furthermore. Putin also promised to temporarily tow the four Typhoon-class nuclear submarines that were ready to be handed over to the war situation from the Severodvinsk shipyard to Haisenwei so that Chen Xin could pick them up at any time.
As for whether Putin will break the treaty. Chen Xin was not worried at all.
At present, the political stage in Russia is sung by Putin and Medvedev, and the next is the case
After dinner, Chen Xin, the chief minister, and President Putin drove to China's National Aerospace Control Center in the northwestern suburbs of the capital, where a major event will be staged tonight that will attract the attention of the world.
After more than a month of flight, the Forbes-Soil Mars rover finally officially entered the orbit of Mars at 5 a.m. today.
At 20 o'clock in the capital time this evening, Forbes-Soil will carry out the release of probes from China and Russia, among which China's Firefly 1 will be the first to break away and become an orbiting satellite of Mars. The main scientific exploration objectives are to detect the space magnetic field, ionosphere and particle distribution changes of Mars, as well as the escape rate of Martian atmospheric ions. In addition, the Martian topography, sandstorms, and the gravitational field near the Martian equator will be explored.
Russia's Phobos landing vehicle will disengage from the probe in 20 minutes and enter Phobos orbit for a soft landing.
The Soil probe carried the Russian Federal Space Agency (РКА) and the Russian Lavochkin Research and Production Consortium (НПОЛавочкина), the Institute of Space Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ИКИ), the China National Space Administration (CNSA), the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Planetary Society of the United States, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (БАН) and other departments have cooperated to develop instruments that will carry out a soft landing on Phobos, and then test and sample the soil of Phobos. It is expected that a 200-gram soil sample will be taken and stored in a returner, which will leave the main probe when full and return to Earth after entering Phobos' orbit. Hard landing on the territory of Kazakhstan.
Since the control of the probe is still in Chen Xin's hands, whether the next Forbes-Soil mission can succeed depends on the face of the war.
In fact, Forbes-Soil's arrival on Mars is also one of the most concerned news in the past two days, except for "The Wandering Earth", which became popular around the world.
Earlier, the media released news that the Forbes-Soil was declared to be faulty. The possibility of crashing the earth has attracted widespread attention around the world, especially in China. Since Forbes-Soil carries China's first Mars rover "Firefly-1", Chinese netizens are particularly concerned about the safety of the Forbes-Soil Mars rover.
And almost a month after the rescue operation. Forbes-Soil still shows no signs of getting better, and there is a lot of bad news about Forbes-Soil on the Internet.
Just when everyone thought that the Forbes-Soil crash was inevitable. When hope was abandoned, the Russian Federal Space Agency suddenly held a meeting and announced that the Forbes-Soil engine had been successfully restarted and that it would resume its journey to Mars.
The news came as a big surprise to everyone, and subsequently, ESA, NASA, China National Space Administration and other units all released news confirming the news of Forbes-Soil's restoration.
What's even more incredible is that the Russian National Space Agency, which was originally planned to take more than 200 days, actually claimed that it would only take a little more than a month to arrive.
This caused an uproar in the aerospace community, and many aerospace experts from major universities stood up and said that this was simply impossible.
Some space enthusiasts even calculated the maximum speed of the Forbes-Soil Mars rover based on the design parameters given by the previous Mars rover, indicating that the fuel carried by the Forbes-Soil Mars rover is simply not enough for it to reach Mars in just one month.
There are all kinds of rumors in the media, but what is strange is that, contrary to those relevant university experts and space enthusiasts who do not have access to core secrets, the national space department with a deep space detection radar is very secretive about this incident and rarely comments on it.
This attitude has made many people very confused, and at the same time, it has also cast a veil of mystery over the Forbes-Soil Mars rover, and some netizens even joked on the Internet. The Forbes shouldn't have been hijacked by aliens!
In any case, after Chen Xin repeatedly confirmed that he would transfer the control of the Forbes-Soil Mars rover to China and Russia. The space ministries of China and Russia finally held a joint press conference yesterday to announce that Forbes Soil will be in orbit around Mars. And at 8 o'clock this evening, the probe will be released, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is visiting Wèn, China, will observe the space event with Elder No. 1.
At that time, China Central Television and Russian state television will jointly broadcast this space cooperation.
When Chen Xinhe, the head of No. 1 and Putin arrived at the capital's space flight control center, the scene was already on standby.
Most of the staff are already in place, but for them, there is not much to do for the time being.
The Grand Elder and Prime Minister Putin met with the relevant scientists of the Sino-Russian joint Mars exploration mission in front of the TV, and then sat in the observation position at the back of the hall. From time to time, I exchanged words with Putin and the Great Elder, and those who didn't know the inside story thought that he was an interpreter for the leaders of the two countries.
In the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, Ling Wei and Wang Xiaoyue were watching the live broadcast of the Mars exploration mission, and when they saw Chen Xin and the leaders of the two countries sitting together, Wang Xiaoyue couldn't help but laugh and said: "Sister Ling Wei, I didn't expect Brother Chen Xin to be quite exemplary in front of the two national leaders. ”
Ling Wei pursed her lips and smiled, remembering when Chen Xin picked her up from Australia more than a month ago. In the face of the Australian Minister of Defense, he is also calm.
He said, "yes, who would have thought that such a stupid-looking boy would come to this point today. ”
Wang Xiaoyue laughed and said, "If it's not like this. Sister Weiwei, I'm afraid you won't like Brother Chen Xin!"
Ling Wei's face was flushed, and she smiled: "Don't you do the same, and talk about me." ”
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Minutes and seconds passed. The hour hand slowly pointed to eight o'clock in the evening.
Chen Xin looked at the watch on his wrist and said to the steel hammer in his heart: "Steel hammer." Almost, right?"
said: "Old Bean, the signal has been sent." The Forbes-Soil rover is expected to start the release process in five minutes. ”
As soon as the steel voice fell, the large radio radar of the capital's space flight control center launched an electromagnetic wave at the northwest corner of the sky, the distance between Mars and the earth is about 90 million kilometers, and it will take about five minutes for the electromagnetic wave to travel at the speed of light, and it will be at least ten minutes before the signal is transmitted back to the space flight control center.
Chen Xin said to the Great Elder and Putin: "Forbes-Soil has entered the probe release stage, and it is expected to receive the signal in ten minutes." ”
The Grand Elder and Putin glanced at each other and nodded one after another.
Let's turn our gaze to distant Mars.
Mars is one of the eight planets in the solar system, belonging to terrestrial planets, with a diameter of about 53% of the Earth, and the inclination angle and rotation period of the rotation axis are similar to those of the Earth, and one revolution is about twice the time of the Earth's revolution.
The hematite on its surface gives the surface of Mars an orange-red color, so the West calls it "Mars, the god of war".
Mars is basically a desert planet, with sand dunes and gravel on the surface of the earth and liquid water bodies that are not stable. The atmosphere, dominated by carbon dioxide, is thin and cold, with sand and dust suspended in it, and dust storms occur frequently every year. Mars has a polar crown of water ice and dry ice at both poles, which waxes and wanes with the seasons.
Compared to Earth, the geological activity is relatively inactive, and most of the surface landforms were formed during the more active period of antiquity, with dense craters, volcanoes and canyons, including the highest mountain in the solar system: Mount Olympus, and the largest canyon, Mariner Canyon.
Another unique topographical feature is the stark difference between the northern and southern hemispheres: the south is an old, crater-filled highland, while the north is a younger plain.
Mars has two natural moons: Phobos and Deimos, which have an irregular shape due to their limited mass and inability to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium under the action of gravity.
This mission, China's Firefly-1 will be an orbiting satellite of Mars after it is released from the Forbes-Soil probes.
The Russian probe will land on Phobos, which is only 6,000 kilometers from the surface of Mars, and sample Phobos' soil to return.
That's why the probe was named Forbes, compared to Phobos, which was just a passenger on Forbes-Soil. (To be continued......)