Chapter 395, Beneath the Ice

The North Pole of Mars is covered with a thick layer of ice, which is different from the ice at the North and South Poles of the Earth.

The temperature at the north and south poles of Mars is too low, and carbon dioxide is in a solid state, which is commonly referred to as dry ice, and the ice here is made up of dry ice and ice.

It's very desolate, there is not a trace of life, the occasional gust of wind brings a trace of cold, the temperature is very low, below -100 degrees, such a low temperature, even if the penguins come, it is simply impossible to resist.

Between the skies, a spaceship descended from the sky and flew towards the ice at the North Pole, slowing down as it got closer to the ground.

The spaceship did not rush to anchor, but kept flying close to the ground, as if looking for a solid area, and soon, the spacecraft found a flat area with exposed rocks, and landed instead.

"Outside temperature 124 degrees Celsius~"

"Air pressure 0.1 standard atm ~"

"The light is good, and the ultraviolet rays are strong~"

“……”

"It's cold enough."

Liu Daoming was wearing a special Mars landing spacesuit, and at the same time, he was also listening carefully to the sound on the spacecraft, and when he heard more than minus 100 degrees, he couldn't help but shiver, such a temperature is too cold, and it is impossible for the earth to reach such a low temperature even if it is in the north and south regions.

"The temperature is too low, it is difficult for life to exist, it depends on whether the temperature under the ice will rise, and in general, if the temperature can be around zero, life can still be born."

Li Jingxuan was also busy putting on his spacesuit, and today the two of them also landed on Mars with the team, preparing to drill holes in the ice to see if there was liquid water at the bottom of the ice to see if they could find life.

"Hmph~"

Soon, the hatch of the spaceship opened with a burst of mechanical students, and one high-tech engineering vehicle after another also drove out, Liu Daoming and Li Jingxuan drove one by one.

The temperature was so low that the spacesuits were so heavy that they could only rely on mechanical force to do their jobs, and thankfully, scientists had anticipated all sorts of extremes when they went on a scientific expedition around the sun.

All engineering vehicles are specially developed, even in the extreme low temperature of more than minus 100, still have good performance, can be used with confidence.

"I'm going to ~ scared the baby to death, Liu Daoming look at the sky ~"

"Why is this sun blue?"

Li Jingxuan drove the engineer out of the spaceship, looked up at the sky, and when he saw a round of strange blue, the whole person couldn't help but cry out.

"It's really blue, and it looks a little creepy."

Liu Daoming looked up at the sky, and the whole person couldn't help but say in surprise.

"This should be related to scattering, because there is no water, there is no vegetation, this Mars has been eroded for hundreds of millions of years, Mars shows that there are countless debris and gravel, plus the hurricane on Mars, the dust particles in the atmosphere are particularly large and very large."

"These large particles of dust scatter the red part of the sun's rays, so when we look at Mars, the sun is blue."

Liu Daoming thought for a while and said, although he is a scientist who studies biology, but the physical level is also a bargain, and the things on this color are attributed to the scattering of light in the first time.

"There should be no problem with your analysis, this scattering should be Mir scattering, the red band that scatters the same wavelength as its own particles, which causes the red frontal part of our line of sight to be scattered, so the sun we see is a blue demonic sun."

Li Jingxuan thought for a while and added.

"There's nothing to make a fuss about, this is the scattering of light, don't make a fuss when we go to other alien planets in the future to see any purple, green, and cyan sun, otherwise be careful to be said to be dirt buns!"

Liu Daoming smiled and said, the sun on the earth is red, and when you go to other planets in the future, it may be blue, purple, and so on, because there are seven colors of light.

The engineering vehicle is driving slowly on the thick ice, and the engineers have a variety of detection instruments on it, through which the scientists can clearly know the thickness of the ice and the general situation under the ice.

"Let's go here, the ice isn't too thick."

Soon, Liu Daoming chose an area and began to get busy.

The engineering vehicles driven are all large engineering vehicles, and they are all high-tech products, and drilling is just a piece of cake for it, without any difficulty.

With the sound of machinery, a large amount of crushed ice is constantly being taken out, and the depth of the borehole is getting deeper and deeper.

While drilling holes, samples are also being collected, and each layer is collected so that it can be tested in the laboratory and understand in detail the mysteries hidden under this thick layer of ice.

"At a depth of 20 meters, the temperature is rising so fast that it is only minus 50 degrees."

At the same time, Liu Daoming and Li Jingxuan also paid close attention to the temperature under the ice, because they clearly knew that temperature was an important condition for the existence of life.

"At a depth of 30 meters, the ice has been drilled through."

It didn't take long for Liu Daoming to open a hole in the ice and break through the ice.

"There's liquid water down there, and the temperature is only about zero degrees, it's unbelievable, how much the temperature has risen."

Li Jingxuan kept observing the data transmitted by the detector all the time, and said in surprise.

"Send a small probe in~"

Liu Daoming also came to the spirit, controlling the engineer and launching a small detector similar to a fish shape through the hole drilled in.

This fish-shaped detector is also a high-tech product, integrating communication, remote control, remote sensing, detection and many other functions.

The probe was launched, and Liu Daoming and Li Jingxuan nervously watched the picture transmitted back by the probe.

Underneath the ice is a dark water world, where visibility is very low and pitch black, and the ice blocks above look very bright here, like a canopy in this dark world.

The lights on the detector turn on automatically, illuminating the world around them.

It's a very quiet world, there are no waves, in the pure darkness, the silence is terrifying.

This high-tech probe was developed by scientists from the Galaxy Academy of Science to study the ocean, and theoretically speaking, it can detect the seabed at a depth of several thousand meters.

The further down it went, the darker it became, until it was completely dark, without a trace of light, and soon the probe reached the very bottom, which was not too deep, that is, a depth of several hundred meters.

"The temperature of the water has risen to minus 10 degrees, and at such a temperature, many creatures on the earth can survive, let alone those primitive life."

"It's just that this doesn't make sense, why does the temperature of this water go higher and lower the lower it goes?"

Li Jingxuan has been paying close attention to various data, and when he saw that the temperature had risen to about 10 degrees, he also said excitedly.

"Because there's an active volcano at the bottom."

Liu Daoming was also closely observing all this, and soon, it made a discovery.

The remote control of the probe slowly swam towards an area, where the temperature is getting higher and higher, and at the same time, you can clearly feel that there is a flow of water, and the probe has become unstable.

Soon, the probe came to an undersea crater, and the light shone through, and you could see bubbles floating upward, and at the same time, you could see red magma slowly emerging from the crater, forming an extraordinary underwater volcanic landscape.

"Isn't the core of this Martian supposed to be extinguished?"

"I didn't expect there to be signs of active volcanic activity."

Li Jingxuan's eyes widened, scientists have had an in-depth analysis of Mars, and one of the most important aspects is to guess that many billion years ago, Mars should be a prosperous living planet like Earth.

It's just that because the mass of Mars is too small, its core is not like the core of the Earth, which can continue to burn, so the core of Mars has been extinguished many billion years ago.

Because the core of Mars is extinguished, the magnetic field of Mars disappears, so that the atmosphere of Mars escapes, becomes very thin, and eventually turns from a living planet to a dead and barren planet.

But what we see now is enough to overturn this view, it is clear that the core of Mars is not extinguished, otherwise, why would there be active volcanoes?

"It's incredible~ The core of Mars hasn't been extinguished yet!"

Liu Daoming also nodded in surprise, the presence of an active volcano is enough to prove that the core of Mars is still working, which is enough to show that the heart of Mars is still beating.

"This discovery is enough to overturn all previous knowledge of Mars, and perhaps hundreds of millions of years ago, Mars really had a prosperous life."

It didn't take long for the two to realize that this momentous discovery would definitely overturn what people had known about Mars.

"There will definitely be life here, there will be water, the temperature will be fine, it will be better than the environment of the primeval ocean above our earth, as long as there is enough time, there will be enough life here to give birth to life, and if it continues like this, life here can still reproduce to a certain extent."

Liu Dao was obviously very excited, the conditions here are already very good for life, you must know that the environment of the primeval ocean on the earth is not worthy of the environment here.

"Hurry up and collect samples, there will definitely be major discoveries here, extraterrestrial life, even if it is primitive extraterrestrial life, it will definitely be the most significant discovery of this century."