Chapter 146: Permanent Dark Zone
Tang Chao became angry again because his remote-controlled lunar rover overturned.
Hey, the most important thing is that the people behind them have been rescued again, and they can still be opened normally.
The gravity of the moon is small, and the speed of the remote-controlled car is not fast, and it is enough to take care of itself, so the impact is not great.
After all, Kanxing material black technology, that's not just a casual talk.
Bumps and bumps are trivial, and if you want to see disintegration and damage, unless it explodes directly.
Although it was only a game feature, after it became a real world, this characteristic really carried over to the actual materials, achieving 100% black technology materials.
Of course, Tang Chao's overturn was just an accident, and through this live broadcast, people should see something else.
For example, a new super-heavy rocket, the Long March 9, made its maiden flight.
The moon has a chamber for human survival and experimentation.
Its name is Luna Gong II, and it comes from the Star Navigator Corporation.
In addition, there are eight more lunar rovers on the moon, and two of them can be controlled by humans for rapid maneuvering.
The combination of fast and slow has made human exploration of the moon more diversified and faster.
This is information that most people know, and they are happy to know it, because it means that humans can understand more about the moon.
There are ordinary people, and there are two kinds of people.
For researchers in related fields, this is good news, because the Navigator company and Tianxia Hangnian have cooperated, and some of the detected data will be released to the public, and some of the core things will be released after consideration.
This is naturally good news for scientists and researchers in related fields, after all, not everyone is in a position to launch a probe on the moon, so these publicly available materials are the object of most people's research.
And there are too many things like data to collect, and if you analyze it yourself, you have to analyze the Year of the Monkey.
Therefore, it is necessary to make some unimportant things public, so that relevant researchers around the world can analyze, interpret and study.
But for politicians in other countries, whether this news is good or bad, only they know.
Of course, no matter whether it is good or bad for oneself, if someone succeeds and achieves an achievement, all officials still have to congratulate them.
It's a matter of etiquette.
If there is a country that starts a hot war with Tianxia, forget it, but now this is not a "time of peace", and you have to congratulate you.
The spokesman of Merrican congratulated him emotionally in the front, and then he roared wildly at Kuna.
At first, Kuna told him about the Mars sample return plan, and he was quite happy.
The moon is there, anyway, they have already landed manned decades ago, even if they achieve a manned landing on the moon next summer, it will be behind them.
That first place, they have been in their hands for decades.
Even if he later knew that Tianxia's payload was a lunar surface experiment module, which was larger than any previous lunar landing equipment, he felt a little embarrassed, because he still felt that the Mars sample return plan was more powerful.
Although it is more important to put an experimental module on the moon in Tianxia, it has not been manned so far, and as long as there is no man, the experimental module is only a larger lunar landing module.
Nothing surprising.
They had already launched several smaller lunar modules decades ago.
They can even return with an upgrade on the lunar module.
Are they proud?
Are they all over the world?
Belch...... Well, there are still ones.
But so what, they haven't fallen behind so far, they're still ahead.
But after the Yuegong-2 landed, eight lunar rovers were scattered at once, and even two could "run wild", and he felt that something was wrong.
The scientific advisor told him that there are now 12 taels on the moon that can move, of which 11 are Tianxia and 1 is from Sakura Country.
Although the Sakura Country was launched with a Merrican rocket, the lunar rover is indeed Sakura Country's.
As for their Merrican, there are only three scrapped convertible lunar rovers, which are still decades old.
The 11 lunar rovers that can move, including two that can drag race, are all summer.
I think of how high-spirited he was when he announced that he would return Merrican to the moon during his tenure, as if the moon was Merrican's backyard, and as long as he gave the order, Merrican's astronauts could build a city on the moon.
Since last year, things have gradually deviated from his pre-envisioned plan, and Tianxia has caught up.
Now, it's even more heartbreaking.
The moon is basically full of Tianxia cars, is this still necessary?
The thought of the moon being full of rut marks in the future made his heart twitch.
So catching Kuna is a wild scolding!
What Mars sample return plan, that's two or three years away!
Now, except for making CG promotional videos, just like advertising in commercial companies, there is nothing substantive at all.
Originally, they also made promotional videos all the time, and every time a promotional video was released, the whole world would carnival.
The basis of the carnival is that Merriken Aerospace Technology is unique!
You have that technology, others don't, so even if it's just a promotional video, outsiders will watch it seriously.
Not now, just out of the promotional video can no longer fool people, you have to do dry goods.
The promotional video can only be used as an embellishment.
Scolded for a dog blood sprinkler, Werner fled and hurriedly called a meeting of the dog licking team.
If they don't come up with any practical plans, they won't think about it this time.
And it can't be stabbed in a few years, it must be achieved within the year, and the shorter the time, the better.
They were flustered here, and the atmosphere on Tang Chao's side was also more solemn.
After the entire launch and landing mission was completed, Tang Chao and the others returned to the company.
After nearly a year of construction, the Navigator company finally has a rough look.
The priorities alone were changed several times, and finally it was decided that it was what it is now.
The tower, waiting hall and runway that were originally to be built are now without any shadows, and they are replaced by the aerospace monitoring center and command center.
This was decided when it was previously decided to launch the first "First Voyage" rocket.
After all, they are a private company and must have their own measurement and control center.
Even the launch center on Sweet Potato Island is on the agenda and is now in the mapping design phase.
The measurement and control center has not yet been renovated, but the remote control center next to it has been renovated.
Hear the word and know what this place is, this is where the old drivers race remotely controlled cars on the moon.
At least for now.
There are several consoles here, but only two are in use.
The previous maneuvering test was carried out at the Binhai Space Center, and because it had to cooperate with the early tracking and control network, two control consoles were transported.
This not only shows the importance of having its own measurement and control center, but also shows the simplicity of the control console, which can be moved and left, because it mainly relies on the overall measurement and control network.
Finally, it is stated that it must have its own measurement and control center.
Now that the preliminary test is completed, there is no need to be so troublesome after that, just drive remotely in the company's remote control center.
Satellite launch vouchers have been used several times, there are a few of their satellites in the sky, and with the rental of ready-made exploration network channels in some countries, they can receive lunar data.
These launched satellites once again allowed Zhao Li and others to confirm that the navigator had a hidden manufacturing center, that is, the Tang Dynasty organization behind it.
There were more than a dozen people in the remote control center, two of them sitting on the console, and the rest of them sitting in the back, staring at the large screen associated with the console screen.
Including Tang Chao, who sat in the first row.
After all, he is not a professional remote control lunar rover driver, he had itchy hands before, tried it, and the result was overturned, and now of course he needs a professional remote control driver.
And now the reality of the two screens is a dividing line between gray and black.
This is actually two remote-controlled lunar rovers parked in front of the permanent shadow area, and if you drive two meters further, you will enter the permanent shadow area on the moon, where the sun will never be bone.
All of them stopped here because the equipment carried by the rover detected some different signals.
A brilliant color appears on the probe, which is different from "gray", which represents rocky lunar soil, and "red, orange, yellow, and green" of various metals, but ...... Blue.
That's the color of water.
There's water in the shaded area!
Or rather, there is ice!
This is the difference between satellite reconnaissance and lunar rover field reconnaissance, and the difference between the two is 100 kilometers for the exploration distance of a specific location.
The results of satellite detection should be added with a "maybe", and now 7 and 8 cars are "confirmed".
Confirm the presence of water in the shaded area.
And it's definitely shallow water ice or water ice exposed to the surface.
Because the remote control of the moon Chen cannot detect too deep underground information.
"Let's start," Tang Chao said, "go find the blue source of life." ”
"Understood."
When the two remote-controlled drivers heard this, they turned on the lights on the lunar rover, and the 7 cars went first, the 8 cars delayed by five meters, and the two cars slowly drove into the permanent shadow area of the Pollid crater.
"Temperature drop ......"
“93℃。”
“12℃。”
“-49℃。”
“-117℃。”
“-206℃。”
"The forward distance is 15.37 meters, and the lunar rover pauses its progress for self-inspection."
"Understood."
In just a distance of more than ten meters, the temperature plummeted by more than 300 degrees, from more than 100 degrees above zero to more than 200 degrees below zero.
This sudden change in temperature is a huge test for the lunar rover.
The place where they are located is the south pole of the moon, which is not where the sun shines vertically, and the temperature is relatively low.
In addition, they go into the permanent shade zone, there is no day and night, and there is no sunlight at all, so the temperature is lower.
The ground command center asked them to stop and conduct a self-test, and after the self-test was fine, they continued to hit the road, and finally the temperature dropped to about -215°C.
It's a pretty horrible ultra-low temperature.
In this ultra-low temperature, it is very difficult to keep the lunar rover from being frozen, and Tang Chao frowned when he looked at the rapidly decreasing power.
"Miscalculated, the temperature is too low, dozens of degrees lower than the average moonlit night temperature, and the isotope 'warm baby' effect of the trumpet has also been compressed.
He muttered so quietly that no one else could hear him, as everyone else was staring intently at the data.
According to the current situation, the lunar rover will have to return after walking 500 meters, and if it goes a little further, the two lunar rovers may not be able to get out of the shadow zone when they return.
Of course, they can go another 200 meters, and when they go back, they can't get out of the shadow zone by 300 meters, but they can get other vehicles to support and tow them out.
If you get all these eight cars over and relay the rescue, you can at most break through 1,000 meters in the shadow area, which is basically the limit.
Beyond this distance, all eight vehicles are dangerous, and all of them may be planted in permanent shadowed areas.
"1000 m ......"
Tang Chao groaned.
The shadow area of Pollid Crater, even if it is only a relatively flat part, is 7,000 meters deep, but at only 1,000 meters, the detection depth is too shallow to contact water ice.
All he was thinking about was the water ice exposed to the ground, because underground water ice was troublesome to mine, even if it was only a meter deep underground.
He patted Zhang Liyan next to him and said, "Lao Zhang, the 500-kilogram lunar rover is still too small, we have to build a big guy." ”
"That's right, boss," Zhang Liyan agreed very much, "I just calculated, even if these lunar rovers cooperate with each other, we can only detect the edge of the shadow area, and we can't go deep at all, we have to build some big guys." ”
Speaking of this, the two of them didn't plan to stay here, Tang Chao told the person in charge of this place, these two cars will be used as full-time cars to find water, just do your best, don't rush in.
The remaining six vehicles form a fast and slow coordination, as much as possible to expand the scope of exploration and scientific research, the entire Pollid crater diameter is more than 60 kilometers, enough for them to swing.
Next to it is its own Canyue 2 and two mini lunar rovers, which can be found and the entire crater is covered with rut marks of the Navigator lunar rover.
As a commercial company, doing scientific research is definitely secondary, and prospecting for ore and ice is the main thing.
Where there are mines, there are building materials, and where there are building materials, there are more equipment.
Where there is ice, there is water, and where there is water, there is rocket fuel and food.
Perfect!
After these orders, they left, and there were more and heavier tasks ahead, and there were many things waiting for them.
Walking out of the remote control center, Tang Chao looked at the moon in the sky, then looked at the company where the first phase of the project was basically completed, thought about a lot of plans, scratched his head and said to Zhang Qin: "You tell Chen Jing, I will attend the company meeting tomorrow." ”
"I'm going to hear about the progress of the company's various projects, get the directors of each group to go, and then the company will continue to recruit people, in addition to all kinds of technical personnel, our own astronauts and space engineers will also be recruited."
Hearing Tang Chao say this, Zhang Liyan became interested, and said with a smile: "Hey, are you finally going to recruit astronauts?" Then can I sign up, I want to go to the moon and build a spaceship. ”
"You?"
Tang Chao glanced at him when he heard this, then slapped him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Okay, when you finish building the Yuanhang rocket, orbital shuttle, and the second phase of the space station, and then build a complete enough moon production base, you will be asked to go to the moon to build a spaceship." ”
Zhang Liyan crossed his fingers, listened to Tang Chao's words, broke for a long time, and finally sighed, "I'd better stay on the earth honestly, the earth can also build spaceships, it's nothing more than a small point." ”
"Hey, Lao Zhang, don't be discouraged, you definitely have a chance to build a spaceship on the moon, believe me."
"Really?" Lao Zhang was first happy, and then sighed, "Don't be 50 years later, right?" ”
"50 years? Were you doing nuclear fusion at the time? ”
Tang Chao put his arms behind his back and looked at the moon: "Believe me, within ten years, your dreams can come true." ”
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