"Destination Shackleton Outpost Base, Autopilot."

Li Peng made a voice authorization, and as soon as the voice fell, the on-board intelligent system responded, and a cute voice came:

[Loading Autopilot, Loading Completed]

[Destination: Shackleton Outpost Base, 1,788 km, estimated arrival time 45 hours later]

I saw that the transport vehicle started slowly, and the internal power energy system used the third-generation energy core, that is, the light core, which converts the collected photon energy into electrical energy, and the vehicle adopts an integrated power system and all-electric propulsion.

On the far side of the Moon, the Light Core is used in a variety of ways, and there is no need to hide it.

This lunar rover is a real big guy, with a maximum payload mass of 58 tons.

After the car was isolated, the air pressure stabilized and returned to normal temperature, Li Peng took off the helmet of the power armor out of the cabin suit, put it aside, and muttered to himself: "No one would have thought that the first large-scale application of autonomous driving would be on the far side of the moon......"

He wasn't the first person to drive to Shackleton from the lunar surface of Mendeleev's crater, and before that there was a team of underside exploration who had found a safe lunar road between the two places, but it would take about two days to reach the bottom at the earliest, and a round trip would take about four days.

Li Peng was traveling to the Shackleton crater to transport ice, and as the headquarters base of the Mendeleev crater began to expand, a large amount of industrial water was needed.

With the successive construction of cluster industries, raw material water, product treatment water, boiler water, cooling water, etc., especially cooling water, account for about 70% of industrial water.

However, although the water consumption is huge, the actual consumption is not much, and the general water consumption is about 0.5% of the total amount. Once the water is transported from the Shackleton crater, it is not discharged to the lunar surface, but is reprocessed and recycled.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, once the manufacturing plant is successfully built, the speed will be raised soon, explaining that under the high degree of intelligence and full automation, there must be a speed like a collapse of the army.

Li Peng finished his work, ate a snack, and slept well, and the car could drive by himself, which was too crucial.

This is his second time on the moon, and members of the extraterrestrial work can only stay on the moon for a maximum of half a year at a time before they must return to Earth.

After Li Peng returned to Earth, he endured gravity again, and it took more than a month for him to readapt to the environment on Earth.

Then he came back after staying on Earth for less than a week, in fact, according to the contract with the company, he can take a whole year off on Earth, yes, it is a vacation, and it is the kind of paid vacation, which is the treatment of working on an extraterrestrial planet.

People who work on the moon, people from insurance companies turn around and run away as soon as they hear that these people are insured.

Although there has not been a single safety accident on the far side of the moon so far, I personally know that the risk is definitely higher than the risk of war.

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After about two days of sunshine on the earth, he traveled more than 1,700 kilometers all the way and finally arrived at the Shackleton impact crater, and the intelligent system on the car woke up Li Peng, who was sleeping soundly.

After waking up, he shook his spirits, put on the helmet of the cabin suit, pulled out the air inside and got out of the car.

The outpost base here is now beginning to take shape, and the person in charge of this base is Liu Yiming, Li Peng's old colleague, and another friend Wang Ke is currently at the north pole of the moon.

Naturally, it is to go to the Arctic Hengyin area to occupy the pit and plant the flag.

Monopolizing the natural ice material on the moon is the strategy of Tianqing Technology Group, and the most expensive material on this planet is not all kinds of rare metals, but natural water sources.

Scarcity is expensive.

"This time, we're both on the same schedule, and we'll be home in a week."

As soon as Li Peng got out of the car, he heard Liu Yiming's laughter in the communicator, and immediately replied: "Yes, in a blink of an eye, the second half-year period has arrived......

Immediately put away his thoughts, closed the car door and smiled: "Do you have hot water for bathing here?" ”

Liu Yiming said: "Are you kidding? Hot, cold or frozen to death, everything, casually soaked, all of them have been safely handled, on my territory, now there is no shortage of anything is no shortage of water, haha. ”

"Ma De is really extravagant, everything related to water at the headquarters must be spared." Li Peng scolded and jumped up, and couldn't wait to enter the outpost base.

Liu Yiming took out a control tablet from the carrying kit on his body, and after operating on it for a while, the heavy transport truck brought by Li Peng automatically turned on the engine, and then drove to the Shackleton impact crater.

As early as three months ago, through large-scale blasting, the moon was almost vacuum, no air could form a shock wave, and it was difficult to conduct heat energy, and the power of the blasting was reduced a lot.

However, in the end, a way was blown up.

The transport vehicle is controlled by artificial intelligence, and the automatic driving enters the edge of the Hengyin area and stops, and at this moment, the shadow area lights at the bottom of the Shackleton pit are brightly lit, and three cutting machine equipment are working non-stop, and there are six or seven people working here.

At the edge of the shadow area, there are many square crystal blocks, the cutting surface is extremely smooth, but not very transparent, with some dust impurities, but there are no air bubbles inside, because the moon has no atmosphere.

These are pieces of ice material, all of which are mined in the open pit, and the natural ice material that has really existed on the moon for hundreds of millions of years, although there are impurities, the water content exceeds 99%.

It was through the mining of these ice materials that the exact age of the Shackleton crater was accurately determined, and it was also concluded that there were no comets from outer space in the shadow area.

The trace impurities contained in the ice material give it a layered feel, like the Earth's rock formations, indicating that it was deposited over billions of years, and scientists sent by the National Aviation Administration are studying the origin of this water, and the most powerful idea is that it is a gift from the sun.

For a long time, the solar wind carried the free state of hydrogen, the solar wind constantly hit the surface of the moon with protons, and there are a large number of oxygen-rich minerals on the surface of the moon, the two react to form hydroxides, and finally become water, these water float on the moon, part of it escapes into the universe, and part of it enters the cold constant yin region will be deposited.

Although it is almost negligible from a human perspective and sensory scale, it has accumulated over billions of years to the present day with a huge amount of ice.

In a sense, everything in the solar system is everything that the sun has given us.

Next, several workers manipulated the machinery to load the cut cube-shaped ice material into the transport car, the mass of one piece was about 0.5 tons, and the transport truck could theoretically carry 116 blocks with a total mass of 58 tons, but in practice only made 105 pieces.

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