Chapter 4 Reversing into storage
Borrowing Titan's gravitational orbit change, Sten is familiar with the road, and Hades often does this, known as the first interstellar drag racing king outside the orbit of Mars.
"Prepare to reverse into the warehouse and hang up the first gear." Stun clicked on the panel quickly, and the buttons brightened one by one, and the power of the ship's engine increased step by step.
Ge Zi dismantled the chocolate that Mu Mu handed him, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it vigorously.
Outside the porthole, Titan was already close at hand, the Hades prospecting ship was moving towards the Titan, the ship was approaching it at a speed of thirty kilometers per second, and it was also approaching at a speed of five kilometers per second, it was a huge planet with a diameter of 5,000 kilometers, the thick atmosphere was opaque to the naked eye and gray-yellow, and they flowed on the surface of Titan, like viscous molten sugar juice.
It's hard for humans to intuitively perceive objects that are too large, and it's often difficult to comprehend their size, and even if it's right in front of your eyes, the brain still tends to put the other person in a frame that it can understand—for example, imagine it as a large Alpine suspended in the dark depths of the sky.
Ge Zi looked at the Alps, trying not to think that it actually had an infinite amount of detail, and beneath the atmosphere and clouds, there were 80 million square kilometers of vast land, with rugged mountains and hills, and vast seas and lakes.
But her efforts soon failed completely, as the Hades had already flown to the surface of the Titan, and the Alps had become a huge arc that was difficult to see with the naked eye, and the seemingly smooth surface showed all its details at great close range, and the cloudy clouds, irregular continents, black seas, and lakes all slowly glided over Ge Zi's head, and the girl instantly realized her insignificance.
The trajectory of the Hades prospecting ship almost coincided with that of Titan, and the closest distance they came to meet at the meeting point was only 200 kilometers, which was completely face-to-face flight, and the two sides approached at a relative speed of 35 kilometers per second, but the closest distance was less than 300 kilometers.
There is no doubt that this is a precise control, equivalent to an eight-wheeled heavy truck and a motorcycle heading head-on at 200 kilometers per hour, and the motorcyclist sticks a rose into the exhaust pipe of the heavy truck in the moment of passing by.
Stong is this daring motorcyclist.
That is, he, in the other person's case, must have put flowers on the window glass.
"Sit down a few brothers, I'm going to start shaking." Stong shouted, reminding him once again that the Hades had entered Titan's gravitational sphere, and at this time it was being pulled by Saturn and Titan at the same time, and the hull of the ship was shaking violently.
"Old Shi, how long will you have to tremble?" Liu Peijia asked loudly.
"Half a minute at most." Stern replied, "We're skimming the surface of Titan, should we put some music on?" The kind that suits bundling. ”
"Excuse me, wait until I hang you on my grave." Liu Peiji clung to the armrest of the seat.
Another tremendous force came, everyone was crushed into their chairs, Ge Zi was still chewing chocolate, almost biting his tongue, the ship's engine was reinforced, and Steng even whistled, he loved this kind of rollercoaster feeling.
"This broken ship is like intermittent convulsions." Dai Yue asked, "When can we change ships?" ”
"You'll have to ask the school." Zhuo Zhi sighed, "Feike is also living a poor life, every year pointing to the Ministry of Education and the provincial government allocated a little money, I remember a few years ago when Peking University celebrated their alumni donated a large fusion spacecraft, it was called a mess, tsk, that formation, it was received in geosynchronous orbit, why don't we have this kind of alumni." ”
"Come on, this ship will be in service for at least another twenty years." Shi Teng turned his head and smiled, "You go to Mars to have a look, hundred-year-old ships abound, and forty years old is just the prime of life." ”
Ge Zi looked out the window at Titan, and she couldn't remember how many times she had been close to the planet.
Twenty times?
Or thirty times?
There are a lot of moons on Saturn, but Ge Zi has very few impressions, Titan is the moon she is most familiar with, and the Hades prospecting ship often takes Titan to change orbits, but she has never boarded it once, although she is only 200 kilometers away from this planet recently.
The Hades did not have a lander, nor did the crew have a landing mission, they had seen so many planets, and they only looked at them from afar.
In the words of Captain Steng, life is too short for us to take a break, and if you stop, you won't be able to leave, because every planet is worth a lifetime of discovering its charms.
There are very few people who have been on missions in Saturn's orbit for a long time, it is too far away from the earth, life and work are very hard, the Hades prospecting ship has served for forty years, has undergone more than a dozen major improvements, and finally turned into an outer space drifting platform, Ge Zi believes that there are only six of them flying in the vast deep space more than a billion kilometers away from the earth at this moment, and the six of them are driving a small boat, rippling on the bright halo of Saturn.
"We're leaving it, let's say hello and goodbye to our old neighbors." Stong said, "I'll visit next time." ”
The Hades accelerated again, and the jumpy old man began his final convulsions, turning up the engines to maximum power and starting to break away from Titan's gravitational circle.
Ge Zi looked at the Titans passing overhead, they only met it for half a minute, which gave Ge Zi a wonderful feeling, she passed by another world, it is said that someone once boarded Titan, they even set up a small station on Titan, Ge Zi stared at the brown clouds covering the surface of Titan, his eyes wandered aimlessly, as if looking for the legendary research station.
What's its name?
Galileo?
No, it's Cassini.
Ge Zi was suddenly stunned and blinked.
She didn't find Cassini Station.
But she saw something familiar...... It quickly caught her eye and caught her eye, it was a cylinder tumbling in the deep air not far behind the ship, a silver-white shell that shimmered and reflected faint sunlight, and the shell was painted with red and yellow paint of a strong, thick-eyed oil worker, and a black bold slogan: I'd rather live twenty years less, desperately want to win the big oil fields!
Ge Zi stared at it for a long time, and it wasn't until it slowly moved away from the spaceship that it became the size of a grain of rice, and she remembered what it was.
It was a fusion engine from the Hades, or Wang Jinxi.