In the Moon's Quiet Sea, in the lunar mining base of Galaxy Group, the astronauts gathered together and enjoyed a beautiful dinner on the moon.

Of course, the sun is high in the sky outside the mining base, and there is no sense of night at all.

Outside the window, the figure of the earth is clearly visible, like a sapphire inlaid in the dark void, and it is darkness on the side of the moon, and Huaxia has just entered the darkness.

According to the plan and schedule, it was time for them to rest.

Although they are on the moon, they are not alone, and the moon also has a communication and positioning system covering the whole moon, and they can make phone calls with their families on this side of the earth, surf the Internet, chat and so on.

Wu Renjie was ready to make a phone call to his family, because he had already bought an astronomical telescope for his daughter, and the better the time, the better the time, to call each other across the long distance between the earth and the moon.

"Hum~"

Wu Renjie took out the satellite mobile phone specially equipped by Galaxy Technology Group and dialed the phone at home.

"Daddy~"

After waiting for several minutes, the phone was connected, and the voice of Wu Renjie's daughter came from the phone.

"Baby, do you miss Daddy?"

"Yes~ I really want to, Dad, is it fun on the moon?"

"Is there a fairy Chang'e? See the White Rabbit? ”

Wu Renjie's daughter is like a curious baby, one question after another keeps popping up, so that Wu Renjie has no time to answer.

"Didn't Dad tell you that there is no fairy Chang'e on the moon, and there is no white rabbit."

Wu Renjie couldn't help but smile and said very patiently.

"But why did the teacher say that there was a white rabbit on the moon? I want to ask Daddy to bring one back for me. ”

"That's because the teacher didn't come to the moon, so she doesn't know, Dad is on the moon now, and she can't find the little white rabbit no matter how you look for it."

"In this way, then I will come to the moon to find the little white rabbit when I grow up."

"Then baby, you have to grow up quickly~"

"Have you ever looked at the moon with a telescope?"

"Yes, have you found where your dad is?"

"No~ Mom said that she was trying to find her father, and if she found it, she would tell me~"

“……”

Wu Renjie chatted with his little lover non-stop, and other teammates were not idle one by one, either posting moments, or video chatting with family and friends, and some even did a live broadcast for a while, although the delay was a bit terrible, but it still attracted a large number of fans.

Early the next morning, the long-term biological alarm clock automatically woke up Wu Renjie to look at the time, it was only 6 o'clock, and it was still very early.

When I got up and opened the window, I saw that nothing had changed.

The sun is still in that position, the earth is still the same, there seems to be no change at all, and on the moon, if there is no time calculation, you will be very difficult to see the flow of time.

Because everything seems to be eternal, there is no change in the weather, no rise of the sun, moon and stars, and no distinction between spring, summer, autumn and winter in the four seasons of the year.

It is the same today, it will still be the same tomorrow, and it will still be the same 10,000 years ago, millions of years ago.

Soon, the teammates all woke up from their sleep, and everyone didn't feel sleepy last night, and they all played quite late.

Of course, it's not just that they play late, but that the family and friends on this side of the earth are like curious babies, asking all kinds of questions endlessly.

So much so that everyone slept quite late last night, but fortunately, there are no special strict restrictions on Galaxy Technology Group, so if you go to bed later, you can sleep later, as long as it doesn't affect your work.

At 7 o'clock in China time, after breakfast, everyone began to get busy again, and there were still many things to be busy.

The expansion of the lunar mining base, the hypothetical solar cell version, the construction of the lunar laboratory, etc., there are many things, and the day is full.

Wu Renjie, on his side, drove the lunar mining vehicle and began to explore resources around the base, collecting rock and soil samples.

Although scientists have already carried out preliminary exploration of the resources on the moon through resource exploration satellites, resource exploration satellites are in space after all, and there are limitations in terms of utilization technology.

The best way to explore this resource is to go to the side in person, collect a large number of samples, and see these samples sent to the laboratory for testing, so that we can accurately grasp it.

"Didi~"

Wu Renjie's walk on the desolate moon in a lunar mining vehicle shows that the resource exploration equipment on the vehicle is constantly making a dripping sound.

The surrounding area is very rich in resources, and there are many kinds of mineral deposits, which can be selected by Galaxy Mining Group, and the resources here will naturally not be less.

When the mining vehicle is on the moon, every 100 meters or so, Wu Renjie will control the lunar rover to collect the soil and rocks indicated by the moon, and then drill holes to collect underground rock and soil samples.

By analyzing samples at different points and at different depths, scientists can clearly understand the distribution of resources in the surrounding area.

It's a very simple job, but it's tedious, and fortunately all of this has a lunar mining vehicle, otherwise it would have taken a long time to explore the surrounding resources.

Earth, ground control command center here.

On a huge map, a variety of dots are displayed on it, each dot represents a mineral resource, and the larger the dot, the richer the resource reserve.

Around the location of the lunar mining base, the surrounding dots are densely packed, very many, many overlapping ones, the most of which are the white dots representing rare earth minerals.

"In the northeast of our base, the distribution of rare earths in this area is very dense, according to the current data, the content of rare earths is extremely amazing, and look at this data, the reserves should exceed 30 million tons, it can be said that every side of the soil here, every rock contains extremely rich rare earth resources."

Several scientists continued to analyze the available data, and soon a rough area was identified.

Rare earth ore is the most important resource mined by Galaxy Mining Group on the moon, because rare earth ore contains a large number of rare metals, and through the deep metallurgy of rare earth ore, a variety of rare metals can be obtained, and rare metals are the most lacking thing in Galaxy Technology Group.

"I remember that the total amount of rare earth resources explored on our earth is only about 130 million tons, and the reserves of this rare earth mine will be 30 million tons?"

I don't know when Qin Yi and Lu Qingwei came over, and after hearing the analysis of several scientists, Lu Qingwei asked with some disbelief.

Although the resources on the moon are extremely abundant, Lu Qingwei has heard it many times, but it is really unbelievable that there are more than 30 million rare earth ores in this casual reserve.

"This is only a preliminary estimate based on the current exploration situation, and the specific situation can only be obtained by analyzing the samples collected from the moon."

"These rare earth resources are very precious on our earth, and the reserves are scarce, but this does not mean that they are also very rare on the moon."

"It's like gold, the reserves on the earth are extremely scarce and very limited, but in the universe, maybe there is a planet that is all made of gold, and everything is possible."

"It's like on the earth, in the desert, water resources are extremely scarce, but in some places, there is abundant precipitation all year round, and water resources are extremely abundant, do people living in deserts think that the whole world is the same as them?"

"It's the same thing in the universe."

Hearing Lu Qingwei's words, someone explained with a smile.

"I see~"

Lu Qingwei nodded as if he didn't understand, which made Qin Yi on the side couldn't help laughing.

In the science and technology tower, Qin Yi has already seen too many such cases, too many such cases, and there is a very classic sentence in the trade in the interstellar universe, the poisonous grass of the other, the fairy grass of mine.

One thing may be very common on this planet, but it is more expensive than gold on other planets, just like before the age of sea voyages on earth, spices were just ordinary weeds on the islands of Southeast Asia, but in Europe, they became spices that countless nobles scrambled, and this is the truth.

"It looks like our first pot of gold on the moon is going to be dug up in this area."

Qin Yi looked at the data on the monitor and said with a smile.

Here in the moon's quiet sea, the astronauts have done all kinds of work, but there is a big thing waiting for them to do.

The 'Lushan' spacecraft is about to return, and it will go back and forth between the earth and the moon every day, transporting massive materials from this side of the earth to the moon, setting up smelting plants, laboratory laboratories, and so on.

This spaceship comes to the moon, even if it is just calculated for electricity and the depreciation of the spacecraft, etc., a casual trip will be calculated to be several million.

It's full, and it's naturally impossible to go back empty.

Near the mining base, the area rich in rare earth resources has been explored, and the three lunar mining vehicles are very busy.

The huge digging shovel packs a shovel of lunar dirt, rocks, etc. into a standard box, and each box is loaded into the 'Lushan' spacecraft.

The work efficiency of the lunar mining vehicle is very high, and soon, a small mountain bag was hollowed out by three lunar mining vehicles, all packed into boxes, and transported to the 'Lushan' spacecraft.

The soil, rocks, etc., which are rich in rare earth ores, will be transported back to the earth, and the rare earth ores will be smelted on this side of the earth.

PS: Does anyone know how to extract rare earth minerals from soil and rock?