Chapter 68: Hades
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In 1998, NASA set up a 98 program, the main part of which is to send probes to Mars to study the Martian atmosphere, Martian climate and Martian surface, and to help the subsequent Mars Polar Lander communicate with Earth.
The entire 98 program is based on the human exploration and research work on Mars that began with the Mars-1 probe implemented by the former Soviet Union in 1952. Since the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union have launched dozens of probes to Mars in succession, some of which have been successful, and some of which have crashed or disintegrated for various reasons.
After the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union collapsed, but NASA did not interrupt the exploration and research of Mars, throughout the 90s, the United States alone launched six Mars probes, not including the same launch plans of Russia, Japan and other countries.
In 1998, NASA decided to send another $327.6 million Mars Climate Probe to Mars, named Mars Climate Explorer, which was launched on December 11, 1998 at 18:45:51 UTC from the Space Launch Complex 17 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, Florida, with the launch vehicle Delta II 7425. After 42 minutes of burning, the Mars Climate Explorer entered the Hohmann transfer orbit. The rocket will eventually have a relative velocity of 5.5 kilometers per second and send the probe to a target 669 million kilometers away, heading towards Mars.
The success of the launch was very much to the delight of the entire NASA, but after 10 months of spaceflight, the Mars Climate Explorer began to prepare to insert into the Martian orbit at 9:00:46 UTC on September 23, 1999, but the Mars Climate Explorer radio abruptly terminated contact at 9:04:52 UTC (49 seconds earlier than expected) and lost its track.
According to the original calculations and judgments, due to human error, the Mars Climate Explorer probe approached Mars at a lower altitude than expected, and finally disintegrated due to atmospheric pressure. To this end, on November 10, 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter Accident Investigation Commission issued a Phase 1 report detailing the problem of possible accidents with the Steering Probe.
More than a decade has passed since this happened, when everyone thought that the Mars Climate Explorer had long since disintegrated and disappeared, and this result was accepted by the committee. But no one expected that just half a year ago, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration suddenly received a radio message transmitted back to Earth from space, and after decoding, they were shocked to find that this message actually came from the Mars Climate Explorer, which had disappeared for 15 years.
When the crackers immediately reported the incident, the first reaction was an April Fool's joke, and the second reaction was that the information was wrong, probably due to the confusion between the Martian atmosphere launched on November 18, 2013 and the information sent back by Volatile Evolution.
But after repeated verification, it has been proved that this is not a joke, let alone a false alarm, it is indeed the information sent back by the Mars climate explorer, which has been missing for 15 years, and according to the information positioning, the Martian climate explorer has not crashed or disintegrated on the surface of Mars, but has skimmed the Martian orbit and continued to fly in space, until it was captured by Pluto's gravity due to inertia, and thus entered the orbit of Pluto.
No one expected that the Mars Climate Explorer would fly out of the solar system and reach the orbit of Pluto, which was an unexpected result for the people who were in charge of the launch at the beginning.
What's even more incredible is that when NASA experts began to analyze the information sent back by the Martian climate explorer in detail, they actually found traces of an obvious man-made object in several obscure photos of Pluto's exploration. And this man-made object is not as ambiguous as the "human face" on Mars and the cigar-shaped celestial body similar to a spacecraft in the orbit behind Mars, although the photo resolution is very poor, and the information transmission is also extremely distorted, but after repeated comparisons, this is indeed a trace of a man-made object, because from various angles of observation and comparison, if it is a natural celestial body, it is absolutely impossible to look like this.
This result immediately caused a sensation within NASA, and it was clear to experts what it meant to find a man-made object on Pluto. There are only two reasons for this, one is that Pluto has lived or still exists, and the second reason is that Pluto has bases or facilities left over from extraterrestrial civilizations.
Whatever the reason, this is the result of the ecstasy of the experts, but just when the experts were preparing to conduct further research on the discoveries found on Pluto, NASA received an order from the government, so all the information related to the Pluto incident was handed over and transferred to other departments for investigation, and a gag order was also issued for the Pluto incident, and a piece of information was classified as top secret and was not to be leaked.
Eventually, the matter was sealed down, and the study of Pluto's vision was transferred to Paradise Ranch, known as Area 51. At the same time, the NRO intelligence agency is responsible for this and continues to carry out research and analysis.
Ramon. It was at this time that Anthony learned about this incident, and when he learned about the incident, he used his relationship to get the results of the verified extraterrestrial civilization facilities on Pluto. Anthony immediately thought of himself, of his life, which was almost over.
Relying on Earth Technology, Raymond. Anthony, with all his wealth and power, was unable to keep himself alive forever, or hopefully return to the state he had been in when he was younger. But the discovery of Pluto's extraterrestrial civilization made Raymond. Anthony saw the only remaining hope in the last period of his life, if he could obtain advanced alien civilization technology on Pluto, then his life would have the possibility of continuing, and even be immortal. The result that Anthony dreamed of.
To this end, Raymond. Anthony resorted to a mixed trick and said that a so-called "Zeus Project" was established within the government, which was ostensibly aimed at the exploration and research of American space technology for Pluto's extraterrestrial civilization. Anthony wanted to use this to gain his chance at eternal life.
In order to complete this plan, the first problem is to build a spacecraft that can reach Pluto, but from the current technology, the propulsion power and energy sustainability of the spacecraft is a major problem that limits human beings from long-term voyages in space. Antony's Zeus plan is a castle in the sky, and a climb to Pluto is never possible.
That's when Kevin. Professor Adams's article on controlled thermonuclear fusion led to the development of Raymond. Anthony's attention .......
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