Chapter 391: A New Window of Silence
The desire for a human landing on Mars is not new in recent years, but has been around for a long time.
In fact, humans have always been curious about Mars, and have been looking forward to seeing the Red Planet since it was first discovered with the naked eye.
At that time, it was also the abode of heavenly gods, gods and ancestors, and later with the advent of various observation devices, people learned more and more about it, and at the same time, curiosity about it also increased.
A few decades ago, people no longer fantasized about landing on Mars, but began to conceive and develop some feasible scientific landing plans.
For example, the development of super-large rockets to send landing personnel and equipment at one time.
Or a smaller rocket, which transports equipment and people in batches.
There is also assembling a huge spaceship in Earth orbit like assembling a space station, and sending it with people and goods.
Nuclear rockets are no less, they can be ejected on the road all the time, not only can they make the ship faster, but it also reduces the amount of chemical fuel that they have to carry, which only adds useless mass.
Further than the credible plan is science fiction, where people are already fantasizing about what life on Mars is like.
It's just that since the plan was formulated, so far, seeing that one by one the planned dates have been exceeded, no astronauts have landed on Mars.
What is the reason for the delay in landing on Mars?
When the plan was first proposed, many believed that technology was limiting humanity.
For example, the environment of Mars is very different from that of Earth, and if you want to land on Mars, you need to face a series of challenges, including lack of water, lack of oxygen, high temperature, severe cold, etc., and if you are unlucky, you may encounter sandstorms.
Dust storms on Mars are rare, only twice a year, 11 Martian months at a time and 330 Martian days at a time.
Well, that is, the sandstorms on Mars are scraped for half a year at a time, and Mars has more than 600 days a year.
Ahem, this is actually an exaggeration, but it also shows that the dust storm on Mars is very powerful.
There are no dust storms that last for half a year, but there are dust storms that last for several months and cover half of Mars, or even the whole of Mars.
So landing on Mars is undoubtedly difficult and dangerous.
But with the passage of time, the scientific and technological strength of mankind has been greatly improved.
Human beings can completely build closed space capsules to ensure the safety of astronauts, water can be transported from the earth when there is a shortage of water, and oxygen tanks can be provided for lack of oxygen, not to mention that as long as you find a rich Martian ice mine, these can be solved on the spot.
For the unpredictable sandstorm weather, scientists can also analyze and predict through various information from the Mars rover, and it can be said that there is almost no difficulty at the technical level.
In this regard, Merriken aerospace experts said: "In the past few decades or even hundreds of years, people have put forward countless ideas, but none of them have been realized. Frankly, it's not technology that's limiting human landing on Mars, it's ...... Political factors. ”
"When will humans be able to land on Mars? Technicians aren't in charge. ”
Political problems have always been more complex and difficult to solve, and solving them is equivalent to achieving world peace, so for now, this thing is incomprehensible.
But now, landing on Mars is not just an internal matter for human beings, it involves external factors, so it must no longer be judged by human beings' own standards.
First of all, because there are aliens on Mars, the plan for humans to land on Mars is already imperative, and you can't land if you don't want to.
This is more politically correct and urgent than the space race back then.
Now, the political side of the matter is settled.
Then there's the issue of technology.
In fact, there is no problem with the technology, it will definitely be reached, but there is no problem with it, it also involves a high level of technology...... Tiered experience.
The technology is low, you can spend hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars, and you can definitely send astronauts to Mars.
If the technology is high, you can make less money, tens of billions, or even billions.
With the emergence of a technological maniac, that is, Ma Yilong and his space fork, his initial declaration was to land on Mars and establish a Martian city, and he also said that he was going to die on Mars, which led to a wave of manned landing on Mars.
As for the flight time from Earth to Mars in a few months, that is not a matter at all.
Anyway, at least in some netizens, it doesn't seem to be a problem, they shouted slogans such as "It's okay if you don't come back", "I want to die on Mars", "I also accept a one-way ticket", "It's worth going to Mars" and so on, excitedly waiting for the implementation of the manned landing mission.
Of course, this is just wishful thinking on the part of netizens, and space companies and institutions cannot choose them to go to Mars, and it will not be their turn.
Landing on Mars, especially the first manned landing on Mars, is a very rigorous matter, and no matter how radical people are, they will not let netizens go.
Although humans have not yet landed on Mars, there are many related experiments on the ground, especially experiments on small spaces, multi-person groups, and long-term survival.
Basically, it is an experiment that simulates long-term survival in a spacecraft and a Martian base, testing people's patience and seeing what happens to humans if they survive in a small space for a long time.
One of Tianxia's astronauts participated in such experiments.
Two years ago, it was the day of the departure of the "human Mars fleet", that is, the day when three unmanned Mars rovers from three countries were launched one after another.
Two full years have passed, that is to say, in another two months or so, and a new window for Mars exploration.
Because of the aliens, as the Mars exploration window approaches, people turn their attention to Mars.
Even if Tianxia has been working on the side, and the construction of the Heavenly Court space station has not stopped, it will also become the first space station in the human world to be visible to the naked eye on the ground, people will look up from time to time, but as the time approaches, people's attention is also shifting to Mars little by little.
And people find it a bit strange that this year's space powers are a bit strange, during the last launch of the "human Mars fleet", many countries announced their own Mars exploration plans and later plans.
Europa's Mars rover wasn't a pigeon last time, and said it was going to be launched this time, but so far, there is no news, and I don't know what's going on.
There are also countries that originally planned to launch fire detectors around this window, but now there is no sound.
But these are not people's concerns, what people really want to see is Tianxia and Merrican.
In terms of plans for Mars and aliens, it is estimated that only these two countries have the ability to do something.
They now want technology and technology, capital and capital, military strength and military strength, and they are still the default human leader countries, who will come out if they don't come out?