Chapter 394, Amino Acids
In the outer space of Mars, the "Kuafu" spacecraft is flying slowly around Mars, and scientists are very busy, using a variety of scientific instruments to start a comprehensive investigation of Mars.
The northern hemisphere of Mars is very flat, an endless plain, and the area is very large.
An anti-gravity spacecraft swoops down from between the sky, slower and slower as it gets closer to the surface of Mars.
Soon, the spacecraft landed on the surface of Mars very smoothly, with the sound of machinery, the hatch at the tail of the spacecraft slowly opened, and an unmanned rover slowly drove out of the spacecraft's warehouse.
Like a curious baby, this unmanned rover began to look for the red surface of Mars, to take a look here, where to take a look, to dig a little dirt here, where to knock a stone, and sometimes to use the drill bit on the rover to constantly drill into the ground to dig deeper soil and rocks.
Samples were collected one by one, and soon the engineering vehicle returned to the spaceship, and after collecting samples from this area, the spacecraft took off again and flew towards the next area.
The North Pole of Mars, here is a white world.
A spaceship landed here, and a rover came out of it, constantly knocking on the ice to collect it, and at the same time constantly drilling holes to collect samples from the depths, trying to find liquid water.
One by one, anti-gravity spacecraft landed in various areas of Mars, and samples were continuously collected, and the spacecraft that collected the samples also soared into the sky, returned to space, and transported the collected samples to the 'Kuafu' spacecraft.
Scientists can't wait for the 'Kuafu' spacecraft, which has a variety of advanced scientific instruments, enough to analyze the collected samples and prepare for the next manned landing.
"This Mars is really barren enough, and judging from the information collected in various regions of Mars, the resources contained on Mars are even inferior to the Moon."
Long Zhankong handed over an analysis report to Huang Zhibin, 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!" Huang Zhibin's data from beginning to end is some very common elements, and there is nothing worth paying attention to at all.
"So the moon is a gift from the universe to mankind!" Someone 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."
"I don't believe it, how can a big planet not have precious resources."
Long Zhan thought about it and said, although the mass of Mars is much smaller than that of Earth, it is also a planet, and a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.
On the other side, in the biological laboratory on the 'Kuafu' spacecraft, Li Jingxuan and Liu Daoming were also testing the samples collected on it, wanting to find something special.
"Sample A0230, nothing has been found, is it because this batch of samples collected are all surface samples, so far nothing has been found."
Li Jingxuan had just finished testing a sample, and he was also a little discouraged.
He and Liu Daoming have not found traces of life on Mars until now.
"Haha~ Found it, found it~"
At this moment, Liu Daoming on the side suddenly laughed happily, and the whole person looked very excited, dancing with his hands.
"Found it?"
As soon as Li Jingxuan heard this, the whole person was excited, and immediately floated to Liu Daoming's side.
"Found it, amino acids, amino acids that are unique only to living things."
Liu Daoming nodded excitedly and said: "You hurry up and test the samples collected from the glaciers in the north and south poles of Mars, I estimate that there are definitely creatures under the glaciers in the north and south poles of Mars." ”
"Amino acids?"
When Li Jingxuan heard this, he immediately became excited, he clearly knew that there was only one source of amino acids, that is, microorganisms, and the discovery of amino acids meant that there were microorganisms on Mars, which also meant that there were extraterrestrial life.
If extraterrestrial life can be found on Mars, it means that life is not limited to the earth, but widely exists in the universe, the universe is so big, human beings are definitely not the only advanced creatures, aliens, alien civilizations must exist.
This will completely change the human understanding of the universe, life, and the origin of species, which means that life should be widespread in the universe, and the earth is definitely not unique.
"This is definitely the most significant discovery of the century!"
The news was soon transmitted back to the earth through quantum communication, and the scientists of the Galaxy Academy of Science screamed excitedly one by one.
"Life is so magical, the universe is so big!"
Qin Yi couldn't help but laugh when he looked at the excited looks of the scientists around him.
Qin Yi knows that life exists in every corner of the universe, and the earth is definitely not a unique life planet in the universe, of course, it does not mean that a life planet like the earth is not precious, on the contrary, on the contrary, although there is a lot of life in the universe, a top life planet like the earth is still a very valuable resource, and it is something that major civilizations must fight for.
The ecology of the earth that has multiplied for an unknown number of hundreds of millions of years is very precious, with countless species, just like an oasis in the vast cosmic desert, an oasis of life, giving birth to countless lives, and more importantly, being able to give birth to intelligent races.
The value of a planet like Earth, which is top-level life, is immeasurable.
You must know that the universe is very large, and all kinds of resources are extremely rich, for example, the reserves of gold on the earth are very small, but in the universe, the reserves are very large, and there are many asteroids in the asteroid belt that contain a large amount of gold.
Iron, copper, gold, silver and other metal elements are very common in the universe, and there are many of them, but there are not many living planets like the earth, each of which is a pearl in the universe and a precious wealth for powerful civilizations.
Thinking of everything he saw in the Science and Technology Tower, Qin Yi also longed to be able to go to the universe now, see different cosmic civilizations, and see all kinds of magical creatures.
At this time, on the Martian side, as the news of the discovery of amino acids on the Martian samples spread throughout the entire Kwafu spacecraft, scientists became extremely excited.
"Captain, we're going to the north and south poles of Mars to mine deeper samples."
"The discovery of extraterrestrial life, this is the most significant discovery of this century, which has refreshed our human understanding of life and the universe, and I can't wait to see what life is like under the glaciers in the north and south of Mars."
Liu Daoming found Wu Renjie, the captain of the 'Kuafu' spacecraft, and shouted that he would go to Mars now to collect more and deeper samples.
"Don't worry, I'm afraid there is no way to land on Mars today, the hurricane on Mars is too strong, at present we don't know enough about Martian hurricanes, once there is an emergency, landing on Mars will be very dangerous, or observe it first."
Wu Renjie shook his head, he was the captain, although he could understand the excitement of the scientists at this time, but he should think more about everyone's safety.
Hurricanes on Mars are very common, and now it seems that there is no law at all, it is easy to encounter hurricanes when landing on Mars, which is more than 21 hurricanes, enough to sweep people into the sky, and it is easy to have an accident.
"What kind of hurricane are you afraid of, don't we have satellites in space?"
"Wouldn't it be okay to notify us as soon as a hurricane is about to form?"
"Every time there is a typhoon on Earth, we can warn in advance, but can't we do it on Mars?"
Li Jingxuan said disapprerovingly, isn't it a hurricane, there are more than ten typhoons on the earth every year, and each time a warning can be issued in advance.
"Although we can also detect the hurricane on Mars, but it forms very quickly, not like the typhoon above our earth at all, we know too little about Mars, it is very unsafe, or wait, I can send an unmanned spacecraft down first, drill deeper areas, collect more samples, and the same."
Wu Renjie said bitterly, these scientists are the boss's sweethearts, and they must not have an accident.