June 27, 2019

At the beginning of this line in his diary, Wang Qiang sniffed and looked out the car window, the sky blocked by a sandstorm. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

A day on Mars is only 37 minutes longer than on Earth, and if you follow the 24-hour clock on Earth, it should still be just over 3 p.m., but it's already dusk here.

After the initial period of excitement, he has now lost the excitement he had when he first landed on Mars.

Life on Mars is boring, and communication resources are precious, and of course it is impossible to use them to access the Internet. Before the construction of large-scale communication base stations, each person had only 10 minutes of telephone time per day, and he could make calls to his relatives and friends on the earth, which was also the only channel for them to obtain information on the earth.

Without the Internet, it is simply torture for modern people.

This means that you can't look at your phone and brush your neck, you can't wear a phantom helmet to go to the virtual world, and half of modern people's entertainment has to be marked with a big red cross.

For Wang Qiang, his daily entertainment now is listening to pop music on the earth, lying in bed and reading novels brought from the earth, and the pace of life seems to slow down all of a sudden. Most of the others are the same, finding something they enjoy to do outside of work.

Luckily, one of the twenty colonists in the colony is a chef who specializes in the four major cuisines, and the colony cabin is quite well stocked, and they can eat it every day. As a result, eating has become one of their few entertainments.

In order to boost the morale of the colonists, the captain promised them that he would apply to the command center at the end of this month to bring more chefs with him in the next batch of colonists. On the one hand, you have to take care of the diet of several foreigners, and on the other hand, you can also change the taste.

The sandstorm outside the window was getting bigger and bigger, but Wang Qiang continued to write something in his diary with a pen as if he hadn't seen it. This is a habit he has developed since he came to Mars, mainly to pass the time.

As for why he was so calm, because he knew very well that as long as it wasn't the level of a thirteen-level typhoon, it wouldn't blow away his rover with a fixed anchor at all. And the sandstorm on Mars, since the beginning of the record, seems to be the largest one.

Before he was sent to Mars, he was a geologist for the future man mining industry, and of course, he still is. The command center gave him only one task, which was to survey the geological information of Mars, find minerals, and assess the reserves of groundwater.

Although steel can be made with a shovel of sand, heavy industry needs not only steel, but also elements such as aluminum, manganese, chromium, cobalt, and nickel.

The colony ship parked in synchronous orbit had already scanned the geological map of the area, and based on the geomorphological features on the topographic map, he had identified several possible locations for mineral deposits and groundwater-rich areas. And his work for the next month is to drive the rover to inspect these mines one by one, and complete the final geological information mapping work.

Although he had no illusions that it would be an easy job from the beginning, the conditions were still difficult for him.

The whole of Mars is a desert, there is no shelter at all. This was the fifth time he had encountered a sandstorm today, and if it weren't for the fact that the colony ship above his head monitored the weather data around the clock, he wouldn't have dared to get out of the car casually.

The Martian climate changes volatilely, and sandstorms come and go quickly.

When the wind indicator returned to a safe value, the dusky sky finally reappeared in his sight.

Due to the thin atmosphere, dust particles are more numerous and larger. Due to the Mill scattering effect, the dust scatters red light with the same wavelength as its own particles, and the sky is reddish in the non-solar line of sight, while the light in and around the sun is blue.

Such a magnificent view can only be seen on Mars.

However, every day you will get tired of looking at it, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it has become an ordinary scenery after seeing too much. Wang Qiang began to miss Koro Island a little, that small island with pleasant scenery, mixed with the sea breeze mixed with the smell of seafood, and the blue sea and blue sky.

Shaking his head, Wang Qiang put away his diary, and at the same time put away his memories of the earth.

Opening the car door, he was already wearing a spacesuit, and jumped to the sand with the equipment box. In order to prevent the sudden attack of the sandstorm, he had opened the anchoring device of the rover's chassis before getting out of the car, and at the same time attached a safety rope to his back.

This is no joke, although he has not seen it with his own eyes, he has heard before he came here, the sandstorm here can reach the maximum level of a 12-level typhoon on the earth, and it is not too easy to blow away his little arms and legs.

"Is lacustrine sedimentary facies? It's almost weathered, there should be water underneath, but I don't know how much ...... it can have."

Putting away the holographic image and holding a device about the size of a suitcase, Wang Qiang found a relatively flat position on the ground, and then fixed the device on it.

The whole set of equipment is not very high-tech, but it is quite practical. There is a firing pin at the bottom of the device, which can simulate seismic waves by hitting the surface at high speed, and determine the lithology of strata at different depths according to the different speeds of wave propagation in different media, and determine whether there is groundwater below the area, and if so, how deep it is, etc.

Removing the tablet from the chest of the spacesuit, Wang Qiang connected the data cable to the device, and then exported the waveform.

"Import complete, let me see ......"

Looking down along the waveform diagram, Wang Qiang had already taken a general look at the geological situation here, but when he saw the location about two thousand meters underground, he was suddenly stunned, and his brows furrowed slightly.

“…… Did you get it wrong? ”

At a position of two kilometers underground, the three-red, blue-green waveform curves were greatly distorted, and even intertwined. This is the first time he has seen this situation in his more than ten years of work experience.

After backing up the waveform, Wang Qiang restarted the device, waited for three minutes, and measured another set of data.

This time, however, the result was the same.

In addition to the durability of the name, it is impossible for the equipment of the future people to break down after only a few days. However, excluding the possibility of equipment failure, there is only one situation left, that is, the geological information of the target area is extremely complex.

More than 100 meters of stratigraphic section, iron, aluminum, titanium ...... appeared at the same time And stuff that I don't know what it is.

If you think about it with your feet, you can never think of it as a natural formation.

But if it wasn't natural, what would it be?

A thought suddenly appeared in Wang Qiang's heart, so that his heart thumped and accelerated.

“…… Grass, is this a treasure? ”

Taking a deep breath, Wang Qiang restrained the excitement in his heart, and didn't care about the third set of data. Tucking the tablet back to his chest, he reached for the helmet of the spacesuit and pressed it, connecting to the colony module's command via the rover's radio.

"This is Prospector 01, call command. Something happened to me here...... It's not a security situation, I found something interesting here. (To be continued.) )