"Princess Belle Island, Princess Belle Island, this is the Prince Barnett. Based on our observations of the landing site, the landing site is suitable for the landing of the Falcon and Kunpeng, so in 23 minutes, when the Prince Barnett reaches the designated airspace, we will launch a Mars landing operation. ”

In orbit around Mars, the originally huge Prince Barnett looks like a tiny ant in contrast to the huge Red Planet. But this little ant has already circled Mars more than six times in twelve hours, and now the seventh lap is coming to an end.

During his orbit around Mars, Han. They made extremely detailed observations of the landing site through the high-definition cameras on the "Prince Barnett", and after concluding that the site met the landing conditions, the real landing operation began immediately.

And the commander Han. The message being sent to the distant Earth from the Kunpeng landing ship was the last communication between the landing team and the Earth before the successful landing.

Six minutes later, Neo. Dr. Schmitz's voice rang out, "Prince Barnett, this is Princess Belle Island. The task is determined and can be executed! At the same time, I wish you all a smooth and successful landing! ”

After receiving a definite order from the ground command center, Han. He was beginning to command the astronauts on the "Kunpeng" and "Eagle Falcon". A flurry of orders is being given, and both landing ships are ready to go. At the same time, the high-definition cameras placed on the two landing ships also included each other in the lens, performing the task of filming the entire landing process up close.

Of course, the two high-definition cameras on the mother ship "Prince Barnett" also pointed their lenses at the two landing ships that were about to launch the landing operation, and recorded the entire landing operation from another angle.

"10, 9, 8, 7, 3, 2, 1, the Kunpeng (Eagle Falcon) broke away from the mothership!"

With the sound of two sounds almost at the same time, the huge "Kunpeng" and the smaller "Eagle Falcon" shook slightly, and then broke away from the "Prince Barnett" that was moving at high speed, and with the help of inertia, continued to fly forward outside the Martian atmosphere for a period of time, and then began to fall in a parabolic way because of the gravitational pull of Mars, and cut into the landing path.

During this period, dozens of nozzles on the hulls of the two landing ships continuously sprayed milky white gas outward, adjusting the landing attitude of the two landing ships. By the time the two landing ships successfully cut into the landing route, the two landing ships had already changed from the initial level flight state to a vertical state.

Under the continuous adjustment of the hull nozzles, the two landing ships will continue to land in this vertical attitude until they reach the specified altitude, and the main recoil rocket will be activated, allowing the two landing ships to land safely at the landing site.

This whole process is almost a copy of the vertical recovery of the "Starlike" series of heavy launch vehicles. However, compared with the vertical recovery of the "Starry" series of heavy-lift launch vehicles, the landing of the "Kunpeng" and "Eagle Falcon" is undoubtedly much simpler.

Even the larger "Kunpeng" is far less large than the "Star" series of heavy-lift launch vehicles, not to mention the smaller "Eagle Falcon". In addition, the gravitational pull of Mars is much smaller than that of Earth, and the density of the Martian atmosphere is not even one percent of that of Earth, so the gravitational acceleration experienced by the two landing ships and the high temperature caused by friction are much smaller than those of the "Starfield" series of heavy-lift launch vehicles.

However, although the density of the Martian atmosphere is much smaller than that of Earth, when the two landing ships entered an altitude of 50 kilometers from the surface of Mars, violent shocks followed. This situation was not seen when it landed on the moon, after all, the density of the atmosphere of Mars is small, and it far exceeds the density of the moon's atmosphere. The speed at which the two landing ships descended was so fast that it was inevitable that it would cause relatively violent friction with the Martian atmosphere.

This is definitely the first time that humans have achieved a manned vertical landing on a planet with an atmosphere in this way. In fact, even if the "Kunpeng" and "Eagle Falcon" were replaced by the previous space shuttles, they would have to rely on this method to achieve landing. Because the density of the Martian atmosphere is so small, although the space shuttle has a pair of fixed wings, the carrying area of that pair of fixed wings is not enough to bear the heavy body of the space shuttle in such a thin atmosphere.

Scientists on Earth are now preparing to develop the "Mars drone", a propeller-like kind of helicopter-like drone, but progress is rather slow. The fundamental reason is that the density of the Martian atmosphere is so small, and for a helicopter to successfully fly on Mars, its propellers must be at least 100 times more powerful than an Earth helicopter. Because without such a lot of power, it is impossible to generate enough lift.

Therefore, the "Kunpeng" and the "Eagle Falcon" will use the vertical landing method to land. Fortunately, the vertical recovery technology of the "Star" series of heavy launch vehicles is very mature, and it can technically support such a landing method.

The two landing ships were jolting violently, but everyone on board was not worried, because the display screen in the cabin was showing the landing attitude of the landing ship at this time - a perfect vertical state.

As long as this landing attitude is maintained, then there will be no danger to the landing ship! Once the main recoil rocket was successfully ignited, the landing operation was almost completely successful.

This violent jolt lasted for dozens of seconds, and then, with the successful ignition of the main recoil rocket, everyone in the cabin felt a shock, and the powerful overload weighed everyone out of an uncomfortable groan. Yin, even if it is changed in Tang style. The physique of the state was also overwhelmed by this sudden overload for a while.

With the loud roar of the engines outside the cabin, the descent of the two landing ships immediately slowed down a lot, and then as the power of the main recoil rocket increased, the descent of the landing ships became slower and slower. By the time the landing ship was still about five meters above the surface of Mars, the thrust of the recoil rocket had been roughly equal to the gravitational pull of Mars, and the two landing ships were landing at almost turtle speed.

At this time, four huge alloy brackets stretched out from the bottom of the two landing ships, and a few seconds later, the bottom of the alloy brackets first touched the surface of Mars, and then through the hydraulic buffer device on the fingernails, it firmly supported the huge landing ship.

So far, the entire Mars landing operation has been successfully completed to a near-perfect degree! (To be continued.) )