743. Landing on Mars, Mariner's Canyon
Jiang Yiming transformed into a green Jiao form, and the dark green scale armor emitted a circle of light, intercepting the extremely low temperature outside. Therefore, the original spacecraft No. 1 was not equipped with a life-sustaining system like the space stations of various countries.
He divided half of his spiritual will into the dream realm, and saw that the World Tree had already digested the Iron Man World that had been polluted by demonic energy, and the height of the tree had reached 18,000 meters.
"The growth of this world tree is getting slower and slower, and in the past, it could grow four or five thousand meters to digest a world, but now it has only increased by two thousand meters. Maybe it's because the purification part of the Iron Man world was devoured by demonized humans and brought to the abyss. ”
Looking at the World Tree, which has not changed much, Jiang Yiming guessed like this. He had a hunch that when the World Tree broke through 20,000 meters, a huge change would occur.
Another group of five or six hundred thousand demons invaded the dream realm, but only more than 100,000 demons really broke into the dream realm, and most of them were killed by the dreams defenses, just like the previous times.
Jiang Yiming took a 180-meter-high World Tree projection and killed all the demon nobles among the more than 100,000 demons, leaving all the remaining demons to humans.
The spiritual will returned to reality, and Jiang Yiming found that the time was only a few hours in the past, and there was still a distance of tens of millions of kilometers from Mars.
Boom! A strong vibration spread throughout the spaceship, and the more than twenty-meter-long body of the green Jiao was shaken. After checking it with his mental power, he found that a soybean-sized hole had been broken in the external armor, penetrating a meter thick armor.
"Is this the power of meteorites?" Jiang Yiming found that even if a meter-thick hard alloy armor was installed, it was still not safe, and a small meteorite had caused such serious damage.
Tracing back to the source, because the speed of the spacecraft is too fast, otherwise the destructive power of a small meteorite hitting it would not be so great. It's just that in space, if the speed of the ship slows down, then interstellar travel takes too much time.
"Taoist Sanqing, if you come to the Buddha, you can take care of it a little more, and let these meteorites die." Jiang Yiming just hoped that he would be lucky and not encounter meteorites again, and that the spacecraft would be able to hold on to Mars and return to Earth.
His prayers seemed to have worked, and the meteorite was not touched next, and Mars, which looked orange because of the hematite, was already in sight.
Mars is about half the diameter of the Earth, with a volume of 15%, a mass of 11%, a surface area equivalent to the Earth's land area, and a much smaller density than the Earth.
Mars is about twice the diameter of the Moon, half the size of the Earth, about nine times the mass of the Moon, 1/9 of the Earth, and about 2.5 times the gravity of the Moon and 2/5 of the Earth.
Because Mars also has an atmosphere, although it is only a thin layer, it is much better than the vacuum on the moon, and there may be water at the poles.
Some scientists believe that the Martian atmosphere could be modified to resemble Earth, but this idea is estimated to be completed in the next few hundred years.
The original spacecraft No. 1 is slowing down, otherwise it will fly past Mars and will not achieve its goal of landing on Mars. The orange-red Mars is getting bigger and bigger, and the desolate Martian surface is about to occupy the entire field of vision.
Jiang Yiming also saw the two moons of Mars, Phobos-1 and Phobos-2. They are ugly and irregular, like two large potatoes. The little Phobos 1 and 2, he is not in the mood to land, only Mars can arouse his interest.
The original spacecraft stayed on the surface of Mars, and a green Jiao flew out, two small claws pressed against the Martian ground, leaving two clear paw prints. Unfortunately, there are often storms on Mars, just like in the Martian movies, and such paw prints don't last long.
Jiang Yiming looked up at the sun, and when he entered the field of vision, a blue sun smaller than the earth, and suddenly felt a little strange. Although it is known that the sun is blue on Mars, according to the exploration ships launched by the Americans, there is still a wonderful feeling to actually see it.
The atmosphere of Mars is thin, and the dust particles are more and larger, mainly Mir scattering, scattering red light with the same wavelength as its own particles, and the red part of the sunlight in the direction of the line of sight is scattered, so the sunset will be blue.
On Earth, you can also see the blue sun, that is, when there is a sandstorm, the particles in the air become much larger, scattering the red sunlight, which makes the sun blue.
Jiang Yiming flicked his tail and slapped heavily on the Martian ground, and a large pit with a depth of one meter appeared. Then he went on to dig two meters down, and found that the Martian soil was still so dry and barren, without a trace of water, and it was even more unsuitable for life than the Gobi on Earth.
"In an environment like Mars, no life can survive at all, unless it's an alien." He stopped digging, came out of the big hole, and sighed.
Flying at an altitude of several hundred meters, Jiang Yiming inspected an area of several hundred square kilometers, and the desolate landform did not change in the slightest, so he completely gave up searching for Martian creatures.
Because Mars is the most similar planet to Earth in the solar system, many science fiction novels have written about Martians or something. Jiang Yiming, who has just landed on Mars, can't help but have some hope, even if there are no Martians on Mars, it is not bad to have bugs.
But the reality is colder than science fiction, there is no trace of biological activity on Mars, and the completely primitive landforms. In fact, this point is reflected in the exploration results of the Mars rover of the Americans.
The desolate and dead Mars disappointed Jiang Yiming greatly, and the passion of the previous landing had almost dissipated, but he wanted to go to one place before leaving, that is, Mariner's Canyon.
Mariner Canyon is the largest and longest canyon in the solar system, discovered by the Mariner 9 spacecraft in 1972, and is about the length of the distance from New York to Los Angeles, making it the largest canyon in the solar system.
The majestic valley of Mariner Canyon stretches for more than 4,500 kilometers, more than 600 kilometers wide at its widest point, and about 8 kilometers deep downward, making it older and more majestic than the canyons on Earth. And according to the detectors, there was once water at the bottom of Mariner Canyon.
At the eastern end of the valley, scientists are observing conclusive signs of flooding. The ground was once completely submerged in water, but when the flood waters receded, the surface almost completely collapsed, leaving only lonely mountains and hills.
"Maybe those probes didn't go deep enough, and maybe there would be traces of some creatures at the bottom of the canyon." With such thoughts, Jiang Yiming flew towards Mariner's Canyon at high speed.
It is a hundred times easier for the Green Jiao to break through the air resistance of Mars than it does on Earth, and it accelerates to Mach 10 speeds almost instantly. (To be continued.) )