"Sister Moyu, look...... Saturn! ”

The girl sat by the window with her cheeks crossed and saw a flickering orange-yellow light in the dim night through the small observation window.

Outside the window was a downpour, the air was so turbid that it was like a pot of yellow mud soup, breaking through the low temperature of minus 160 degrees Celsius to condense the alkanes in the air into a liquid state, the raindrops flowed along the outer glass of the observation window, but did not trickle, but converged into a thin liquid film, which looked very much like water, and the liquid methane was also colorless and odorless.

The young woman sat on the edge of the bed, holding the tablet in one hand and her head in the other, a strand of black hair hanging down.

She looked up at the girl, looked out again, and shook her head with a smile, "Yaxiang, that's not Saturn. ”

"Not Saturn?" The little girl blinked.

"It's lightning." Mo Yu's finger swiped lightly on the tablet, switching the page number of the book, and said casually, "There is a very violent thunderstorm above our heads, the atmosphere is ionized, and it emits a very bright orange-yellow light, which looks like a vague Saturn, but in fact Saturn is not in that direction, and it is not visible in this weather." ”

"And when can you see Saturn?"

"Wait until the weather gets better." "It's very, very big, anyway, and it's always only in one direction." ”

"How long will this weather last?" Yaxiang asked.

"Hmm...... Who knows? Mo Yu thought for a while, "This place has been in this weather for many years, and you have only been here for a few days?" I've been in Cassini for a few months now, and the rain hasn't stopped. ”

"Oh Mo Yu, do you know, before I came here, I thought Cassini Station was like this: in a crystal clear dark sky, the huge Saturn rises below the horizon, occupying half of the night sky, and we can see the huge storm on the surface of Saturn, and the giant planet is close enough to reach." Ya Xiang used her hands to draw a huge ball in mid-air, and her spirit was flying.

But then she was very depressed, "Who knew that the entire Cassini station was simply located in a cloud of muddy water, and every day it was a heavy rainstorm, and nothing could be seen." ”

Mo Yu sneered.

"It's romantic to imagine, but it's skinny in reality, isn't it? You haven't seen worse weather, the weather changes much more drastically than in your hometown, and when the rainy season comes, the clouds above us are an inverted ocean, and the rain is like a dam flooding...... There are also storms, which can sweep away the locomotive when the wind is at its strongest. ”

Yaka imagined a storm that could sweep away the locomotive.

"It's horrible."

She pressed her hand on the glass of the observation window, the oval viewing window was very small, like the porthole of an old-fashioned airliner in the last century, a few centimeters away was a liquid alkane at minus 170 degrees Celsius, the girl's white delicate fingers would instantly freeze and shatter in this low temperature, but the inner glass was still warm to the touch.

Yaxiang was very curious about the window pane for a while, and she always wanted to understand the principle of this thing.

"Cassini has always been the most remote and dangerous research station, and in the past eight years, Cassini has lost a total of 18 people, all because of the sudden change in weather." Mo Yu whispered, "Can you imagine? In the blink of an eye, the person who walked in front of you disappeared without a trace, and the body could not be recovered...... You're here to do an interview, it's as dangerous as a war correspondent. ”

"My dream is to be a war correspondent." The little girl showed a small tiger tooth, she pushed the wall, pounced on Mo Yu's body lightly, pressed her down on the bed, and then rubbed around like a cat, "Sister Mo Yu, your conditions are so difficult, maybe my interview will make the public pay more attention to you?" And then I'm going to give you lots and lots of money...... Wow, it's so fragrant, so big. ”

"Hey, be careful, the gravity is too small, don't fall......" Mo Yu threw away the tablet and reached out to hug her, "Hey, hey, hey, where are your claws?" ”

The two hit the head of the bed, and Mo Yu stretched out a hand to press on the wall to stabilize their bodies, the gravity on Titan is even smaller than that of the moon, and it is quite difficult to control the body.

"Sister Moyu, what do you usually eat?"

"Standard food in the station."

"That's the same food I eat." Yaxiang said sullenly, "Why can't mine grow up?" ”

"You're still young." Mo Yu comforted her, "It will be longer." ”

"I'm twenty-three! Twenty-three Sister Moyu. Yaxiang said, "At this age, the development has long been over, and it will not grow any longer, and it is impossible to grow up again in this life." ”

“…… Do you know why you ask? ”

There was silence in the room.

Yaxiang burst into tears.

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"Sister Moyu, the stationmaster, they said that Cassini Station is about to be unable to hold on, and the earth is urging retirement, and the allocated funds are getting smaller and smaller year by year."

Yaxiang and Moyu lay side by side on the bed, looking at the ceiling of the room, the sound insulation effect of the wall of Cassini Station was very good, and the thunderstorm outside was deafening, but it was not heard at all in the room.

Mo Yu was slightly taller than Ya Xiang, and her hair was tied up haphazardly.

"Who said that?" Mo Yu turned his head, "Jiangzi? Old Hu? Chef Wan? ”

"That's what they all say." Yaxiang replied, "It is said that the cost is too great, and the results achieved are disproportionate to the cost of investment, NASA does not want to go on anymore, if the Americans withdraw, then ESA will definitely withdraw, and only China, Japan and Russia cannot support such a huge plan." ”

Silently stunned, she didn't pay much attention to these things, Dabai would receive a huge amount of Earth network information every day, these digital signals were sent from the earth to Mars 100 million kilometers away, and then relayed from Mars to Saturn 1.2 billion kilometers away, such a long distance even the speed of light had to travel for more than an hour, and the power of radio waves had been attenuated to negligible when they arrived at Cassini Station.

Cassini Station is the farthest living place from the Earth in the human world, and in order to maintain the normal operation of this small research station, the Earth has established a huge logistics supply line, and the personnel transport ships and supply ships depart regularly every year like buses, and these space buses have to fly for a year on the road.

Even if Moyu doesn't understand politics or economics, she knows that the investment must be amazing.

The establishment of Cassini was a radical attempt – like the Apollo program of the last century, the Mars landings in the middle of the last century. The Mars exploration has been a great success – Starbucks is now available on Mars, which gives radicals a great deal of confidence that they can't wait to set their sights on Jupiter and Saturn, build a space station in Jupiter's orbit, and even send someone to land on Titan.

In the dreamy thirty years of idealism, the radicals in power, under the impetus of the radicals in power, opened a distant route to Saturn, and established Cassini Station on Titan.

It is also the only inhabited research station located outside the asteroid belt, and before people have time to build a second one, the next thing is the bursting of the economic bubble of space development.

In the gloomy economic environment, Cassini's presence has become increasingly redundant, and it has become a huge burden for the participating member states, and its scientific value is negligible compared to the money it burns every second. The idealistic frenzy faded and people quickly returned to reality, with fewer and fewer buses sent to Cassini each year, and less and less money allocated for projects, making Cassini station more and more awkward.

It was established less than eight years ago before it was abandoned.

Mo Yu sighed faintly.

"I don't want it to be decommissioned." Yaxiang said.

"Why?"

"Sister Moyu, do you want to...... Where are we? On Titan, on a planet completely different from Earth, in a magical world. Yaxiang said, "Cassini Station represents the most noble ideals and sharp spirit of mankind - never stop pioneering and enterprising." ”

"If Cassini Station is abandoned, then the tip of this knife will be broken." Yaka continued, "In the future, people's minds will be closed again, right? ”

"But this is the law of historical development, and people's thinking is to move forward in closed, open, closed, and open again and again." Mo Yu smiled, she glanced at the time, and patted the little girl's back, "Don't lie on the bed, the stationmaster, they should come back, we still have some work to complete." ”

Ya Xiang was stunned, "What else is the job?" ”

"Has the little girl been dizzy?" Mo Yu got up and tapped the other party's head, "How many are today?" What day is tomorrow? ”

"Today?" Yaxiang frowned, "January 28th." ”

Mo Yu stepped out of the room, turned to her and gestured a pistol with his finger, blinking.

"Lunar calendar?"

Yaxiang was stunned, then jumped up and chased after her.

"Oh, yes, yes, Sister Moyu, do you need to post couplets? I can write calligraphy! And Is it possible to set off fireworks here? Do you want to make dumplings tomorrow night......"