269. Asteroid Arrival
In the conference room, Chen Mengchuan's words aroused everyone's thinking.
"Hydrogen above Jupiter can indeed be said to be inexhaustible, but! Chen: Hydrogen itself is not an energy resource. The technology of using deuterium or tritium isotopes to generate electricity by nuclear fusion is far from being matured, even though the sun's energy comes from the fusion reaction of hydrogen. Mojirny spoke. His understanding of nuclear fusion is the highest of all on site.
"The energy required to produce elemental hydrogen from solar energy, electrical energy or biological processes is higher than the energy obtained after hydrogen combustion, so Chen, hydrogen is used as an energy carrier from another perspective, just like a battery. Hydrogen on Earth is usually derived from fossil fuels such as methane, but these fuels are non-renewable resources on Earth. ”
"Liquid nitrogen and compressed hydrogen have a much lower energy density per unit volume than conventional fuels, but a much higher energy density per unit mass. On Earth hydrogen is considered to have the potential to become a commonly used energy carrier as a new economic base. But now that the earth is gradually realizing the full application of solar energy, under such conditions, the demand for hydrogen as an energy carrier on the earth is less. And the farther away we are from the earth, the better we can do for the energy of hydrogen. Fuel cells can be used to convert hydrogen and oxygen into electricity much more efficiently than ordinary internal combustion engines. Mojirny nodded.
Chen Mengchuan smiled: "Although Jupiter can be regarded as a gaseous planet, I believe that there must be various forms of hydrogen on Jupiter, gaseous hydrogen, liquid hydrogen, hydrogen on the triphase point, solid hydrogen and even natural metal hydrogen. But our target is not just Jupiter, but also Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto farther away. ”
"It's been an exciting journey, your words and make me can't wait to go to Saturn and see this planet with beautiful rings." Puslin smiled too.
"Saturn is not much different from Jupiter except for this ice ring, or it may not have been explored by humans, so it is possible that we don't know anything." Majirny said.
"And Uranus, that flawless blue-green, seems to me to be much more artistic than Saturn."
"Isn't Neptune's deep blue more beautiful?"
"Anyway, maybe we should prepare some more to fly to a wider and more distant universe, just enough to test our Eternal Universe example communication technology, to what extent, isn't it......"
The topic was quickly discussed among everyone, and everyone had a lot of expectations for the solar system exploration and development plan, in essence, human beings' understanding of this world is too shallow, not to mention that there are countless unsolved mysteries on the earth. To a certain extent, human science is another bottleneck, this bottleneck depends on how far human beings go out, how far they know, this bottleneck has now been pierced by Chen Mengchuan and others, and their eyes have really begun to cast on the sea of stars.
Time passed quickly little by little, and the atmosphere on Mars became more and more enthusiastic, and it was almost the first time that these experts and scholars and a group of scientists had the opportunity to gather together.
Like them, there are several people from Tianzhi Technology.
The first asteroid captured today will arrive on Mars!
"There's no need to care too much about what type of asteroid this asteroid is, even if it's not the worst type M metal asteroid, it's just the beginning, and we will continue to catch more asteroids in the future." Chen Mengchuan said with a smile.
Everyone in the hall of the main control center is full of anticipation, on the screen, the captured asteroid will soon arrive on Mars, and the small green light point representing the asteroid is constantly approaching.
"It's here!" Toni looked up at the second screen, where it was clear that the asteroid had reached the orbit of Mars.
"According to the plan, start installing the gravitational node! Then prepare for landing. Chen Mengchuan opened his mouth and ordered.
The capture of asteroids is in gravity-free space, and it is relatively easy to capture it based on gravitational inertia, but after being captured, when it is sent to Mars with gravity, it is necessary to take into account the influence of Martian gravity, and the huge asteroid has a terrifying weight on Mars, whose gravity is much smaller than that of Earth.
"Roger. A colony of multi-armed crabs has been dispatched, and this time 329 multi-armed crabs will be used for the main gravitational support, and 127,000 gravitational bees will cooperate with the asteroid landing. The commander said calmly.
About ten minutes later, on the screen, a huge space source circle was opened, and a gray-black slightly rounded asteroid suddenly appeared, flying towards Mars quickly.
"Turn on the asteroid brakes!"
As the words fell, the fast-flying asteroid slowly slowed down, and the strong gravitational force that continued to accelerate on the asteroid suddenly stopped, but it continued to fly under the strong inertia.
It didn't take long for the asteroid to slowly start spinning, and in a matter of minutes, the direction of the gravitational pull exerted by the asteroid capture ship was reversed to the forward direction.
"Start slowing down!"
A large number of gravitational bees cooperated with the asteroid capture spacecraft and began to exert a large gravitational force in the opposite direction little by little.
The entire asteroid began to slow down at a speed visible to the naked eye, and what seemed like a thrilling flight quickly slowed down, and after a few minutes of deceleration, finally stopped.
"Start positioning, the multi-armed crab swarm and the gravitational bee swarm are ready to start climbing at a fixed point! Start the calculation. ”
In the main control room, after more than ten seconds of positioning calculation, the location of the asteroid was accurately located.
Two minutes later, a clear blue circle of sources was opened not far from the space area where the asteroid was located, and a large number of multi-armed crabs arrived out of thin air and flew towards the asteroid.
On the basis of fixed-point calculation, a modified multi-armed crab quickly attached to the asteroid, and then a gravitational bee colony also arrived at the scene, quickly dispersed, to a core point, after flying to the core point, the bee colony bloomed, and a gravitational bee quickly flew to one point after another, covering almost the entire asteroid.
"Briefing! The multi-armed crab and gravitational bee colony have all been climbed and are ready to land! ”