A month later.

Through the porthole, Pang Xuelin overlooked this beautiful planet with three colors: red, blue and white.

According to the data collected by Tas, the red color is the planet's ocean, the blue is the planet's land, and the white color is the snow covering the planet.

The snow spreads from the poles to around the 30th parallel of north and south.

It's a cold planet.

"It's colder than the data we've collected before."

Pang Xuelin said.

"It should be due to the occlusion of the Jupiter-like planet next to it, when it orbits to the shady side of the Jupiter-like planet, the sunlight from the red giant is blocked, causing the temperature to drop, according to the orbital calculation, its rotation period is 18 Earth hours, and the orbital period is four Earth months." In other words, every two Earth months, the planet is obscured by Jupiter. Luckily, the planet has just come out of the shady side and is now in the process of warming. ”

"The planet has a complete atmosphere with 17% oxygen, 80% nitrogen, 1% carbon dioxide, and other components mainly of various noble gases and ozone. Humans can breathe on their own on this planet. In addition, the planet is half the size of the Earth, with a surface gravitational acceleration of 0.8g and a surface atmospheric pressure equivalent to 1.5atm. ”

"That's good news."

Pang Xuelin said with a smile.

"Captain Pang, when are you going to land?"

Pang Xuelin pondered for a moment and said, "Right now, let's go and have a look." ”

It has been two months since Murphy entered Planet 5 and no news has been returned, Pang Xuelin decided to finish exploring Planet 6 as soon as possible, and then drive the shuttle to Planet 5 to find Murphy.

Pang Xuelin returned to the cockpit and sat down, gently starting the engine of the shuttle, and with a roar, the shuttle began to turn around and descend towards Planet Six.

The shuttle is equipped with a small anti-gravity device, so when the shuttle lands, it is not at all like the traditional aerospace aircraft or the return capsule of the spacecraft, which uses a shell resistant to high temperature and high pressure to resist the friction caused by high-speed flight and air.

It just fluttered its attitude and slowly floated down the atmosphere.

Four hours later, the shuttle finally crossed a distance of more than 100 kilometers and landed on Planet Six.

The place where Pang Xuelin landed was at the junction of glaciers, oceans, and land.

Pang Xuelin changed into a spacesuit and got out of the shuttle.

In the headset of the spacesuit, Tass's voice came: "Captain Pang, make sure that the atmosphere of Planet Six can breathe." ”

Pang Xuelin nodded, supported the helmet with both hands and twisted it slightly, and took off the helmet.

Pang Xuelin took a deep breath, unlike the air on the earth, the air on Planet Six has a bit of sulfur smell, which is due to the relatively active volcanic activity on Planet Six and the high concentration of sulfur dioxide in the air.

And although he was near the glacier, there was not much chill in the air, and Pang Xuelin felt that the current temperature was at least twenty degrees, which made it feel very stuffy.

Not far away, the reddish-brown sea mist was steaming, and he could even hear the melting of glaciers in the distance.

As for the surface, it is a blue gravel rich in alkaline copper carbonate washed by the current.

This mineral covers the entire planet's surface.

This is also the reason why the land of Planet Six can appear blue.

Looking up at the sky, there were floating clouds in the distance, half of the sky was shrouded in the huge Jupiter-like planet, and the red giant star was suspended on the other side of the sky like a king.

Pang Xuelin has traveled through so many science fiction worlds, even in the wandering earth world, when the earth passed by Jupiter, he has never seen such a wonder.

For the next two hours, Pang Xuelin drove a small all-terrain rover around the area, and Pang Xuelin did not find many traces of life except for the gravel that had been hit by the glacial meltwater.

At this time, Tas's voice sounded in the headphones again: "Captain Pang, there are thunderstorm clouds gathering ten kilometers away, and it is expected that thunderstorms will occur in this area within twenty minutes, please return to the shuttle as soon as possible." ”

"Understood!"

Ten minutes later, Pang Xuelin drove the cruise car back to the shuttle, and at this time, the wind was raging around him, and the sky was already covered by a dark cloud.

From time to time, the roar of lightning can be heard.

As soon as Pang Xuelin entered the shuttle, a fist-sized hailstone smashed down.

Fortunately, the shell of the shuttle is made of high-strength titanium alloy, and this level of damage is unscathed to the shuttle.

The hailstorm lasted a full twenty minutes, followed by a downpour that lasted for a day and a night.

After this day, the sky cleared again, Pang Xuelin came out of the shuttle, and the glacier not far away had disappeared completely.

In the following week, Pang Xuelin conducted an all-round investigation of the planet.

In the end, it was determined that this is a planet with an extremely harsh climate that is not suitable for human habitation at all.

First of all, heavy rainstorms like the one he had encountered when he landed earlier were commonplace on the planet, with similar thunderstorms occurring around the globe almost every few days.

In addition, after the planet entered the sunny side, the temperature rose sharply, and in just one week, the global average temperature rose from 20 degrees to nearly 30 degrees, and the temperature near the equator was close to 50 degrees.

Due to the massive melting of glaciers and the evaporation of water vapor, the entire planet seems to be in a super-large steamer.

And according to TASS estimates, over time, the planet's average global temperature can reach up to 40 degrees Celsius when it is on the sunny side.

Near the equator, it can reach more than 70 degrees.

This was accompanied by torrential rains and floods that swept across the globe.

This process will last for two full months.

And when the planet moves to the shady side of Jupiter, the planet will usher in two months of dark night and winter.

At that time, the glaciers that melt on the sun will reappear around the world and continue to spawn around the 30th parallel.

This process is reincarnated every four months.

Because of this, even though Planet Six has air and water, Pang Xuelin has not found many creatures.

Of course, he did not rule out the existence of some bacteria, fungi and other single-celled organisms in some volcanic craters or deep oceans.

But this does not mean anything to human civilization.

After a week of exploration and completion of all the exploration logs, the details of the planet were sent to Eternal Night through the small communication satellites that had been placed in the synchronous orbit of Planet 6.

He then drove the shuttle away from Planet Six and arrived at the Lagrange point of Planet Six and Jupiter.