Chapter 313: Europa

"Okay, that's all I have to say, let's kick the ship!" 朱磊 says:

As his words fell, the operators and researchers of each spacecraft began to line up on their spacecraft in an orderly manner, and just like the last time they explored Mars, all the people who went to explore this time wrote their suicide notes, and they had already contacted their families before the spacecraft departed.

And this spacecraft is different from the previous ones, especially the five newly-built space research ships, these five space research ships, all the equipment uses the latest equipment of the Ming Empire, and even the communication system has become a particle communication system.

The particle communication system is a communication system just developed by the Ming Empire in recent years, which is more secure than the previous quantum communication system, and the communication speed is also faster, even more than the speed of light, but the energy consumed is very much.

Of course, because the energy consumed by the particle communication system is very large, if there is nothing special, these spaceships will not start this communication system, or use the original quantum communication system, because once the particle communication system is opened, the energy consumption of the spacecraft is very powerful, and the energy consumed by one minute of communication can make the entire spacecraft fly at a high speed for three months, especially when the communication equipment is activated, there are ordinary quantum communication systems on the spacecraft in addition to the particle communication system.

Looking at the spaceships that were gradually moving away, all the personnel of Zhu Lei's lunar base began to pray in their hearts that the explorers would be safe this time, although these spaceships, especially those sword-shaped spaceships, were very safe and had a very strong survivability in the universe, but no one knew what would happen in the next second in space, so Zhu Lei and they could only pray in their hearts.

The eight spacecraft that explored the entire solar system did not go in the same direction together, but flew out of the lunar orbit and began to separate and fly in one direction.

Who's eight spaceships all flew to their predetermined flight paths, and one of the crew members was still captained by Huang Feng, but this time the spacecraft they piloted was no longer the Vanguard, but one of the newly built spaceships.

"The spacecraft adjusts its orientation and departs directly from Jupiter." Wang Feng: Their main goal this time is to explore the Kuiper Belt and the data of the nearby starry sky in the Kuiper Belt.

However, they hesitate to explore the direction and route of this expedition to coincide with Mars, so they will also explore Mars and the aliens on Mars this time, and then they will want to fly with Kuiper, because after leaving the orbit of Jupiter, their path will be unhindered and will not overlap with the orbit of that planet.

Because their spacecraft this time was much faster than the previous Pioneer, even Jupiter was many times farther than Mars, but this time the spacecraft they were on was much faster than the Vanguard, so they reached Jupiter's vicinity in less than half a month.

Looking at the huge red planet in the distance, the wasp and his crew sighed for a while, after all, this giant star is the largest planet in the entire solar system except the sun, its volume is more than 1,300 times that of the earth, and even all the planets in the entire solar system combined are less than half of its size, you can imagine how huge Jupiter is.

Moreover, the Wasp and their exploration spacecraft also found that Jupiter has the same extremely strong magnetic field as the Earth, and even found the same auroras as the Earth at the north and south poles of Jupiter.

However, because Jupiter is a gas planet with a thick atmosphere above, Huang Feng and his team cannot land on Jupiter for further investigation.

When they were investigating Jupiter, they found that Jupiter has a lot of moons as scientists on the earth say, according to the detection of instruments on their space research ship, Jupiter has a total of 16 moons, of which the four largest moons are Europa, Europa, Europa, and Medias.

Among them, Europa, which has a diameter of about 3,000 kilometers, is about the size of the moon.

Io is located at a distance of about 420,000 kilometers from Jupiter, which is very close to Jupiter, so it is very susceptible to Jupiter's gravity.

"Launch a probe and prepare to land on Io to collect concrete data, specifically dirt samples from Io." Wang Feng looked at Io in front of him, and then said to the crew.

A missile-like object flew above the tail of their spaceship.

This is the Ming Empire's new type of planetary unmanned probe, this probe can not only detect the planet's atmospheric environment in an extremely harsh environment, but can even log on to the planet for soil collection, as well as the analysis of elements and other data, which is countless times more powerful than the previous generation of planetary probes, but if you want to detect the new planet of the project, this kind of probe is still not seen.

However, it is still very easy to use it to detect a planet like Io, although the environment of Io is much worse than that of Earth.

It didn't take long for the probe to enter Io's atmosphere very smoothly.

And there are mountains, plains, canyons and volcanoes on Io, and the atmosphere on Io is also very thin, according to the data of the probe, the atmosphere above Io is mainly composed of sulfur dioxide, sodium chloride and a small amount of water.

Humans can't survive on it, and volcanic activity on Io is quite frequent, and they found an erupting volcano not far from the probe. With an altitude of nearly 200 kilometers and a speed of more than 1,000 meters per second, it can be said that this erupting volcano is more powerful than any other volcano on earth.

And according to the probe's data, there are rivers and lakes on Io, but these rivers and lakes are not water, they are all sulfur.

For the next few days, the wasps stopped near Io to collect detailed data on Io, as well as collect dirt samples from various places on Io, after all, to understand Io, they must not collect only one dirt sample on it, in addition to collecting data on various volcanoes on Io.

In fact, the only temperature above it is also very cold, reaching more than -140 degrees Celsius at the lowest point, but the temperature on the surface of Europa is as high as more than 2,000 degrees Celsius, which is the temperature of the erupting volcano.

This is where the heat on Europa comes from, and after the Wasps have collected the data from Io, they will start flying towards Jupiter's second moon, and send the collected data back to Earth through a normal quantum communication system.

And those collected soil samples are flown by special unmanned aerial vehicles such as the Lunar Space Exploration Center.