Chapter 291: Super Storm

As these unmanned probes dispersed one after another, the personnel on the Xuanwu 3 also began their own work, and the various machinery on the Xuanwu 3 also began to work at this time.

After a manipulator of Xuanwu 3 was deployed, a drill bit was stretched out from it, and then it began to drill down against the ground, and when the drill bit reached three meters, the rotor controlled by the manipulator stopped, and then pulled the drill bit out, because the drill bit used now is special, the center of the drill bit is hollow, and its function is to collect soil samples on Mars.

So when the drill bit drills to a certain depth, the head will get up and be taken back to Xuanwu 3 along with the soil samples inside, and when Xuanwu 3 returns, these soil samples will also be brought back to the moon.

Although the temperature at the south pole of Mars is very low, at the place where Xuanwu 3 landed, the temperature reached more than minus 140 degrees at this time.

However, Xuanwu No. 3 is different, the materials made by Xuanwu No. 3 are all special alloys, so they can still work as usual at such a cold and low temperature.

It is precisely because of the existence of Xuanwu 3 that for the staff inside Xuanwu 3, the temperature inside is still about 20 degrees at this time, it can be said that if there is no Xuanwu 3, then these staff who land on Mars must wear thick cold-proof clothing, although they are all wearing exoskeleton armor, but in such a cold weather, their actions will be subject to a lot of restrictions.

But now it is different, these staff do not have to worry about the low temperature in Xuanwu No. 3, and they do not need to go out of Xuanwu No. 3, all the work of these staff will be completed in Xuanwu No. 3 operating various manipulators and various unmanned machinery.

As the work of the Xuanwu No. 3 manipulator continued, the hole depth drilled by Xuanwu No. 3 became deeper and deeper, and more and more soil samples were collected, after all, the collection of soil samples is not only to collect the upper layer of the soil, but also to collect soil samples of various depths.

"Xuanwu No. 3 please note Xuanwu No. 3 Please note that a super storm is forming 300 kilometers to your right, and it is now slowly approaching your area, and the wind is expected to reach more than 18, so the staff inside Xuanwu No. 3 please be prepared to strengthen and prevent the wind." When I lived at Xuanwu No. 3 at work.

The voice of the Pioneer was heard from the communicator on the Xuanwu 3.

"Xuanwu No. 3 received, Xuanwu No. 3 received." The person in charge of Xuanwu 3 immediately sent the information back after hearing it, and then began to prepare for the reinforcement and wind protection of Xuanwu 3, after all, judging from the information sent back by the Pioneer.

The wind power of this storm will reach more than 18, such a powerful storm, even if Xuanwu 3 has a huge tonnage, it must be prepared to reinforce, after all, the storm has just formed at this time, so the staff in Xuanwu 3 can be sure that when the storm arrives at their location, the wind of the storm will be even stronger, and even reach more than 20.

And there is an essential difference between the storm on Mars and the earth, because there is no vegetation cover on Mars, so the storm will definitely be sand, gravel and mud, and the speed of the sand and gravel in such a powerful storm must be amazing, even compared to the gunpowder weapons used by humans 20 years ago, the power is not much worse, especially the impact brought by those relatively large stones, although the armor of Xuanwu 3 is very powerful, but if the vehicle is not fixed, then Xuanwu 3 is likely to be overturned by the storm.

At this time, all kinds of unmanned machines that were sent out also began to slowly return to Xuanwu 3, after all, these UAV series are relatively small in size and light weight, and they have no survivability in a storm of this scale, so these unmanned engineering vehicles must be withdrawn to Xuanwu 3.

But drones do not, because these drones are also equipped with anti-gravity systems, so when the storm comes, these drones will fly above 10,000 meters to avoid super storms, and so that drones can also observe the super storm on Mars at close range, and collect storm information.

At this time, the staff in Xuanwu 3 began to fix Xuanwu 3, while praying that this storm would not form a large-scale super storm, although even if it is a big storm for Xuanwu 3, it can be carried by Xuanwu 3, but it will have a great impact on Mars exploration.

After all, the storm on Mars is completely different from the storm on the earth, and the intensity of the storm is also fundamentally different, even the largest storm on the earth is only more than 60 meters per second, but Mars is different, the maximum storm wind speed on Mars will reach more than 180 meters per second, which is three times that of the earth.

And the storm lasts very long, the superstorm on Mars often lasts for several months, and will sweep the whole of Mars, and then it will be very unfavorable for Mars expeditions, after all, they can't stay on Mars for months without doing anything.

Although these scientists knew that such a situation would occur on Mars every year when they were on Earth, but this year they specially selected the time when the Martian airflow was relatively stable, but in fact, the time when the Martian airflow was relatively stable was also possible to form a superstorm, but the probability was relatively small.

Not long after the staff on the Xuanwu 3 retracted the machine, the staff could clearly see the billowing sand and dust in the distance through the high-performance camera equipment of the Xuanwu 3.

"Pioneer hears please answer, the storm is coming, we will retract the antenna."

"Pioneer received, stay safe!"

After all, the Martian storm is so powerful and the various sand and gravel inside it, if the relatively fragile antennas on Xuanwu 3 are not retracted, it will be easily destroyed by the Martian storm.

At this time, the various drones released by Xuanwu 3 also began to enter an intelligent state, after all, Xuanwu 3 had no way to control these drones for the time being because Xuanwu 3 had recovered various antennas.

However, due to the progress of earth science and technology, and these drones are now above 10,000 meters in altitude, the impact of the storm is very weak, so even if it is handed over to the intelligent system control on the aircraft, there will be basically no accidents.

The Martian storm quickly swept over the location where your Xuanwu 3 was, and suddenly the clear picture on the original display screen could not see the scene ahead clearly, because at this time, from the top of the display screen, there was yellow sand everywhere, and there were even stones of different sizes inside, and the visibility was less than one meter at this time, fortunately, such a storm would only form on Mars, if it was on Earth, then it would be a huge disaster for human beings.