Chapter 211, Exploring Mars (2)

The northern hemisphere of Mars is very gentle, it can be said to be a very vast plain, according to scientists' speculation, the history of the formation of this landform in the northern hemisphere is not too long.

The surface of Mars is full of red gravel and finer red sand, all of which are formed by iron oxide and cover the entire surface of Mars, so when you look at Mars from space, Mars is a red planet.

In a wide plain, a spaceship descended from the sky, a huge parachute slowed down with the help of air, and at the same time, the tail sprayed flames to reduce the speed, and landed very smoothly on the surface of Mars, this is an unmanned spaceship, as soon as it landed on Mars.

At his tail, the mechanical door slowly opened, and a construction vehicle slowly drove out of the spaceship, stepped on the soil of Mars, and began to walk around and look like a curious baby, knocking stones and digging in the soil from time to time, collecting samples one by one.

"Humph!"

A mechanical arm on top of the engineering vehicle made a roar of the machine, and I saw a drill-like thing constantly drilling into the dirt, ready to dig out deep soil or rocks and other things to better study Mars.

Samples were collected back to the spacecraft, some of which were rocks and dirt from Mars, some were taken from the deep soil of Mars through drilling, and some of which were taken from the air of Mars, in short, all kinds of samples about Mars were collected back to the spacecraft.

"Boom!"

The landing spaceship spits out flames that blow away the surrounding mud, sand, and gravel, and for a moment the dust is like a great storm.

The unmanned spacecraft slowly lifted off, then faster and faster, and soon disappeared into the atmosphere of Mars into outer space, and then slowly approached the "Ocean-Going" spacecraft, ready to send various samples that had just been collected to the scientists on the spacecraft for study.

With the continuous return of unmanned landing spacecraft, the samples collected from various regions and locations on Mars are slowly gathered on the "Ocean" spacecraft, and scientists are extremely busy, on the one hand, to analyze the samples that have been collected, and on the other hand, to prepare for the next manned landing.

"Headmaster, this Mars is really barren enough, judging from the information collected in various areas of Mars, the resources contained on Mars are even inferior to the Moon."

Li Quanjiang handed over an analysis report to Li Fu, which was obtained by scientists after analyzing samples collected from various regions of Mars, which is much more accurate than continuing to explore in space.

The main element of Martian soil is oxygen, which accounts for about 50%, silicon is 15~30%, iron is 15~16%, aluminum is 2~7%, calcium is 3~8% and a small amount of potassium, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, tantalum, chromium, magnesium, cobalt, nickel, copper, etc.

The content of sulfur (2.6~3.1%) is 1~2 orders of magnitude higher than the average content of the earth's crust, and the content of potassium is less than 0.25%. Rubidium, strontium, yttrium, and zirconium are much lower than most of the Earth's igneous rocks.

The chemical composition of the Martian soil is characterized by high iron, moderate magnesium, calcium and sulfur, and low aluminum, and its chemical composition does not represent the composition of the original rock, but is likely to be the product of various chemical and weathering processes in the mafic igneous rock.

According to the calculation of mineral composition, the Martian soil is a mixture of 80% iron-rich clay, about 10% magnesium sulfate, about 5% carbonate and about 5% iron oxide, and the mineral composition of the mixture is equivalent to 59.1% chlormorillonite, 21.7% montmorillonite, 11.8% magnesium alum, 1% stone salt, about 0.5% TiO2 and 5.9% calcite.

"It's really barren enough, there are not even some scarce resources, and there are still a lot of He3 on the moon!" Li Fu looks at the data from beginning to end, which are all very common elements, and there is nothing worth paying attention to at all.

"So the moon is a gift from the universe to mankind!" Chen Bin on the side also smiled and said.

"However, these are the soil data on the surface of Mars, and the real exploration of the mineral division of Mars still needs to dig deeply, and prepare for tomorrow to arrange people to log in to Mars and dig up some deeper soil and rocks."

"No matter how big a planet is, I don't believe I can't find some rare resources." Li Fu muttered as he ordered.

"Li Fu, heavy, major discovery, major discovery!"

At this time, Li Fu's teacher Liu Yi floated over excitedly, and his whole person seemed very excited, some danced with his hands, and his tone was a little incoherent when he spoke.

"What's wrong, teacher?"

When Li Fu heard this, he immediately asked in surprise.

"Haha, just now I analyzed the collected samples of ice, rocks, and mud from the North and South Poles of Mars, what did you find?"

Liu Yi couldn't be happy, he came out this time to find extraterrestrial life, and what he found when he just analyzed the sample made him ecstatic.

"You've discovered extraterrestrial life?"

Liu Yi asked in some surprise.

"No, but it's coming soon."

What Liu Yi said made people a little confused, and Liu Shiying on the side couldn't help but say: "Old Liu, what did you find, hurry up and say it, it's still appetizing here, and what you say is incomprehensible." ”

"Haha, I found amino acids, although they are very, very rare, but I still discovered them, amino acids, you know what this means?"

Liu Yi grabbed Liu Shiying's shoulder, and he looked very excited.

"Amino acids?"

As soon as Li Fu heard this, the whole person's eyebrows couldn't help but rise, as a scientist specializing in biology, of course Li Fu knew what amino acids were, if amino acids were really found on Mars, then there was only one possibility, there were really microorganisms on Mars, because there was only one source of amino acids, that is, microorganisms.

"Is there really anything on Mars?"

Li Fu couldn't help but mutter.

"What? Is there really extraterrestrial life? ”

Liu Shiying on the side heard this, the whole was even more excited, his eyes widened, it was really unbelievable, extraterrestrial life can really be found on Mars, if extraterrestrial life can be found on Mars, it means that life should be widespread in the universe, and the earth is definitely not a unique life planet in the universe.

"I can't draw conclusions yet, but it's very likely, I like more data, and it's better to have sample information from the deep layers of the Antarctic and Antarctic, and I think there may be liquid water in the deepest layers of the Antarctic ice cap, and there will definitely be significant discoveries in it."

Liu Yi had a smile on his face, and the whole person looked very anxious, a little unhurried.

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