In the silence of space, as seen from Earth's ultra-high power telescope, the asteroid belt is covered with a series of points of light - each point of light represents an asteroid. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

From the earth, these small points of light are very numerous, dense, as if they are crowded. In many people's imagination, the asteroid belt should also be a large rock-like asteroid within a few hundred meters, orbiting in the same orbit, and occasionally colliding or something.

In reality, the situation is quite different.

Although it is true that there are thousands of asteroids in the asteroid belt, the orbit of the asteroid belt is much larger than the orbit of the Earth around the sun, which is calculated in hundreds of millions of kilometers! How long is the circumference of the Earth? 40,000 kilometers only!

So in fact, although the asteroids with large asteroid belts have a diameter of hundreds of kilometers, the distance between the asteroids is relatively far when it is really spread out to the entire orbit. It's normal to be tens of thousands of kilometers apart!

Therefore, when Lin Tianfeng came to the asteroid belt with the aerospace plane formation and found the target asteroid, looking at the pitch-black space around him, even with his intelligence level far beyond that of ordinary giant computers, he was helpless.

It's okay to build a space base here, but it's still difficult to achieve the desired goals.

However, the asteroid found so far has a diameter of more than 200 kilometers, and the area is not small. Although the surface of the asteroid is not very regular, the asteroid's orbit is very stable, and there is no very fast autobiographical tumbling, which is more conducive to establishing a base on it.

However, Lin Tianfeng did not immediately let the robots on the aerospace plane establish a base, but sent five aerospace planes out to search nearby.

Lin Dong gave Lin Tianfeng a secret order at that time, not only to find the parent body of the meteorite, but also to find the asteroid with the energy crystal mine. Both of these things are very important. Lin Tianfeng did not forget in the slightest.

Moreover, although this is found at the moment, it may be a meteorite parent asteroid that is more suitable for establishing a base according to the coordinates, but it is not certain whether there are any asteroids in the vicinity that are more suitable for establishing a base.

This base is not for short-term use, and it is very likely that additional functions will be added, so naturally the more suitable the better.

The speed of the five aerospace planes was very fast, without people, more than 100,000 kilometers per hour, and soon, the seven aerospace planes sent messages separately.

In this large asteroid belt, there are still larger asteroids nearby. The nearest one is almost 80,000 kilometers away, and the next one is 120,000 kilometers away.

As for the asteroid with energy spar that Lin Dong said, the specific location is to be determined - it's not that there are no clues, but the approximate range given by Lin Dong, that range is 30,000 kilometers, and there are three asteroids in this range, all of which are not small in size, and they can't be determined before they are detected.

However, the only suitable asteroid for building a base is the current asteroid.

After coming to this conclusion, Lin Tianfeng ordered the aerospace aircraft to return, and the aerospace planes here unloaded their supplies and began to establish a base.

Although the asteroid is 200 kilometers in diameter, it is not small. But with such a large volume, counting gravitational force, there is not much. Not to mention much smaller than the Earth, or even much smaller than the Earth.

So to build a base on this asteroid, solidity is a very important issue.

Fortunately, this asteroid is stony, and although the texture is different in some places, it is still very easy to drill holes in general.

The aerospace plane stopped on the asteroid, and several steel cables were immediately shot out from the plane, deeply penetrating into the asteroid, fixing the aerospace plane, and then, those machine octopuses came down in batches, and then hit the steel cables, unloaded materials, and began to build infrastructure.

Huaxia is known as the era of infrastructure madness, and various infrastructure construction has long formed a complete set of procedures. Although Changying Group has not done much to establish a base in space, before it flies, Changying Group has already done deductions, has a set of procedures for how to establish a base, and has a mechanism to deal with various complex situations, so these mechanical octopuses quickly chose the most correct way to build it.

Because of the asteroid's rotation and its own operation is not very stable, many materials that are not used for a while have not been unloaded, and these space planes, except for one, have been fixed on the asteroid.

Lin Tianfeng, on the other hand, took the only unfastened aerospace plane and orbited the asteroid to observe.

The asteroid is irregularly shaped, and it can be seen that the asteroid has collided many times in the hundreds of millions of years since its formation, and there are large and small irregular defects on the edge. Because the asteroid belt has no atmosphere, this defect looks very distinct, not like the stones on the earth, after the defect, after many years of weathering, you can not find the original traces.

The space plane is very close to the edge of the asteroid, so close that as long as the asteroid's rotation trajectory changes slightly, it can directly crash the space plane into the air. However, Lin Tianfeng was very determined, driving the asteroid and observing while orbiting.

Soon, Lin Tianfeng locked the radar on a huge gap on the edge of the asteroid.

According to the shape, it can be seen that this was originally a protrusion, but I don't know what it was hit, and the protrusion was knocked off, forming a small gap.

The size of the gap is obviously much larger than the meteorite exchanged for the earth, but Lin Tianfeng knows that it is very possible, or at least eighty percent sure, that the meteorite on the earth is the one that flew to the earth after this part of the asteroid was hit!

Of course, Lin Tianfeng didn't look at it from the shape. The shape of this notch is very different from the shape of the meteorite. After all, it is impossible to form only such a piece after the impact, and it is very likely that there are many fragments, and the larger one that flies to the earth is the one that will be burned by the friction of the atmosphere, and the shape will naturally change greatly.

The reason why Lin Tianfeng was roughly determined was based on the radar scans on the aerospace aircraft. This radar has been specially modified to analyze the spectral structure of matter at the gap - the structure here is more than ninety percent similar to the structure of meteorites!

Subsequently, the aerospace plane moved closer to the gap according to Lin Tianfeng's adjustment, and slowly began to adjust its flight posture - Lin Tianfeng even directly changed the pilot mode to the following mode in automatic driving, which made the aerospace plane quickly move with the orbit of the asteroid's rotation and revolution.

When the distance between the aerospace plane and the asteroid is only a few meters, and the angle and speed of the flight rotation are almost exactly the same, a steel cable shoots out directly from the aerospace plane and pierces the edge of the gap, the end of the steel cable is a piece of metal, and when it is smashed over, it directly smashes off a lot of large and small fragments at the gap, and then the aerospace plane immediately retracts the steel cable, and then scans to determine that the larger of those fragments is larger, follows it, pokes out the steel grasp, and directly catches the fragments back to the aerospace plane.

It's done!