"Puff !!"

"Boom !!"

(Silent, brain-filled picture)

A huge current that rose into the sky lifted the excavation machine and the exploration robot that followed its ass up tens of thousands of meters into the air, and then smashed into the ice with a bang, falling to pieces. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Poof! Poof!! ”

The ice that was dug through by the excavation robot continued to spray water, and finally died down, but the ice surface froze again.

"Plan A really doesn't work." A scientist looked around the smashed robot in a circle, looking rather distressed on his face.

“fuck！ Fortunately, a group of robots were sent to do the experiment first. Another scientist couldn't help but explode.

"Let's try Plan B!"

"Good! I had to come to the hard one! ”

Faced with the current situation, everyone quickly made a decision.

......

The silver-gray spaceship slowly rose into the sky, and the powerful high-energy air currents instantly turned the ice below into a huge pool of water.

After a brief spin of the spacecraft, it arcs and glides towards the ice of its target.

"Prepare to launch a kinetic icebreaker!!"

Everyone gathered in the spaceship control room, holding their breath and looking at the target's ice shell.

"The target is locked!"

If you look from the outside, you can clearly see that a row of guns on the spaceship is aimed at Europa's ice shell at a precise angle.

"Launch!" The captain decisively pressed the command button.

"Boom, boom!"

Everyone could hear a violent crash.

I saw that the ice shell in the target area was boiling in an instant, and countless ice flowers splashed in all directions, and the scene was spectacular!

The spacecraft hummed, followed by another volley.

The ice shell boiled again, and it intensified. The ice flowers in the sky were faintly filled with bursts of water vapor, and the ice mist spread out in all directions, quickly obscuring everyone's sight.

"It's a little closer, come again!!"

Before the captain finished speaking, the ice shell became restless again.

Eventually, a raging stream of water poured out of the massive breach in the ice shell.

"Launch the robot!!"

At this perfect moment, the intelligent control system quickly seized this opportunity, and more than 100 survey robots wrapped in protective shells were shot into the deep ocean like shotshots.

"I don't know how many robots will be able to cross the ice and reach the world below in the end."

As they spoke, the crowd had begun to read and aggregate the data sent back by the robot.

"The icebreaker operation was a success!!"

"According to the positioning information, a total of 22 reconnaissance robots have passed through the ice, the protective shield has been opened, and the robots are continuing to dive."

"The other robots are all trapped in the refrozen ice shell."

A pass rate of 22% doesn't seem too high, but it's enough.

Spaceships are not without more powerful weapons, and the kinetic icebreaker was chosen because it relies entirely on the physics of high-speed impacts. Although it is limited, it will not pollute Europa's ecological environment and cause large-scale damage to potential creatures in the subglacial ocean.

Otherwise, the spacecraft would drop a large-yield nuclear weapon and instantly open a huge hole in Europa's thick ice shell.

......

The ocean inside Europa is a mysterious world, under a thick layer of ice, there is no light, it is pitch black, only God knows, how many untold secrets it hides.

The 22 scouting robots have been completely swallowed up by this dark world.

Although the surroundings seem calm, there is a terrifying atmosphere.

Like the deep sea of the earth, in this endless abyss, there is only infinite loneliness in the dark, opening the cold arms to the earth civilization that comes from afar!

All the inspection robots have turned on the infrared camera system, and pictures of different areas have been displayed in front of everyone.

"Nothing!"

Such results are somewhat disappointing to scientists.

"No living organisms have been found in the water sample test report."

Every 500 meters, the robot analyzes the water samples in the area.

"The water temperature is continuing to rise, and the current depth of 10.1 kilometers is close to the maximum depth of the Earth's oceans."

"The current average water temperature is 8.32 degrees Celsius, and the water pressure is 1.38*10^7 Pa."

"Pay attention to the pressure level of the robot, dive cautiously, seek stability, and seek safety."

Scientific probes have already reached the deepest part of the Earth's oceans, the Mariana Islands Trench. It is also the closest to the Earth's core, with a maximum depth of 11,034 metres below sea level (Charinger Abyss).

In the deep seas of the earth, divers have seen large sea beasts such as shrimp, octopus, spear squid, and sperm whales in the waters at a depth of thousands of meters. Schools of largemouth angler fish have also been found at depths of 2000~3000 meters. Even in the water column below 8,000 meters, new fingerlings of fish as small as 18 centimeters in size have been found.

The depth of 8,000 meters in the Earth's oceans means more than 800 times the atmospheric pressure. If scientists hadn't seen so much deep-sea life with their own eyes, they might not have been able to believe that these seemingly fragile creatures (deep-sea fish have a structure that makes the difference between internal and external pressure close to zero) could survive in such a place of enormous water pressure.

However, because Europa's gravity level is only 13.7% of Earth's, the survey robots can dive 7.3 times deeper in Europa's ocean than Earth's (liquid pressure: p=pgh).

"Robots 8, 19, 67, and 92 are heading in the direction of the salt lake, and the other robots will continue to dive into the deep sea."

"The average diving depth has reached 22 kilometers, the water temperature has basically remained the same, it is currently 15.6 degrees Celsius, and the water pressure is 2.79*10^7 Pa."

"No life has been found, but the content of organic macromolecules has increased significantly."

"Keep diving!" The captain commanded.

The scout robot continues to dive into the depths of Europa's ocean, a place of complete seclusion. The sun doesn't shine here, it's like hell. Everywhere is eternal darkness, there is no difference between day and night, and it has remained unchanged for eons of eternity.

As the saying goes, everything depends on the sun. Thousands of years ago, it was believed that sunlight was the source of energy for living things, and that without the sun, all living things on Earth, including humans, would not be able to survive.

But that perception has changed now, as scientists have long discovered that oases of life are still possible under the deep seabed and in dark worlds deep below the surface where there is no sunlight.

That's why the scientists involved in this operation have always had great confidence in the discovery of Europa's lifeforms. (To be continued.) )