Chapter 321: Capturing Ceres
With the movement of the spaceship and the plasma thruster, the entire ancient city began to shake violently, and various cracks began to appear on the surface of the planet, and even a large amount of water vapor and ice erupted from the surface of Ceres.
And with the gradual adjustment of the power of the spaceship, and the power of the plasma thruster on the Ceres, the tremor of the Ceres is getting more and more powerful, and at this time Zhu Lei's spacecraft of their fleet has also been tested the most, after all, the weight of the entire ancient god star is as high as more than 9 billion billion tons, although there is a planet plasma thruster installed on this planet to help, but the pressure is also very large, and even the slightly smaller warships in the fleet can hear the ship's keel because of the severe force, There is also a gurgling sound.
However, from the current point of view, the spacecraft can still withstand such a huge pressure, after all, the spacecraft has been designed with such a problem in mind, and there is still a lot of leeway, and now it is only 1/3 of the power of the spacecraft, and even if the power of the thruster is 100% when it is designed, it can withstand it.
As the ship's power gradually increased, it finally slowed down after a few more hours, and because Ceres' rotation slowed down, the pressure on Ceres became lighter.
After nearly five hours, Zhu Lei's fleet's efforts during this time finally paid off, and the rotation of Ceres finally came to a relative halt, after all, it was impossible to make the heart of the ancient city reach absolute stillness, so it could only be relatively still.
Then Zhu Lei adjusted the direction of the entire fleet, this time no longer stopping the rotation of Ceres, but to let Vulcan get out of its orbit and fly towards Mars.
After the direction of the cosmic stage was adjusted, all the planetary thrusters installed on Ceres began to start, and this time all the thrusters were activated at full power, but Ceres continued to move forward in its own orbit of the leaf.
Although the spacecraft sent over this time seemed to be very large, the largest of which reached more than 1,200 meters and weighed five or six million tons, but compared to Ceres, they were simply small ants.
Although the thrusters used in these spaceships are all the most advanced thrusters of the Ming Empire, and even basically every spaceship is equipped with a controllable nuclear fusion engine that the Ming Empire has just developed two years ago, if you rely solely on the thrust of the spacecraft itself, it is simply wishful thinking to move Ceres.
However, as the power of the huge plasma thrusters on Ceres gradually increased, the orbit of Ceres gradually changed.
And as Ceres' orbit changes, the gravitational pull of the sun, the largest boss in the solar system, on Ceres has also begun to change, making Ceres deviate from its orbit faster and faster, and the pressure on Zhu Lei's fleet is getting smaller and smaller.
After more than ten hours of continuous efforts, and countless orbit adjustments in the middle, the heart of the ancient city has now deviated far from its own orbit, and has begun to gradually move closer to the orbit of Mars.
And due to the action of the sun's gravity, the speed of Ceres in space has also begun to change, the original speed of Mars is about 16 kilometers per second, but under the action of the plasma thruster installed on Ceres, and the sun's gravity, its speed has now exceeded 20 kilometers per second.
"Using neutrino communication technology, send the current orbital data of Ceres back to the moon, and use the Empire's most advanced computer to calculate the probability of a collision between Ceres and Mars." When Ceres' orbit changed, Zhu Lei immediately ordered the fleet's communicators to send the data back to the moon for calculation.
A day after the data was sent back to the moon, the lunar base finally sent back new data.
After the most advanced computer calculations of the Ming Empire, if Ceres continues to fly according to its current orbit, the probability of collision with Mars is only about 10%, which is more likely to be a collision with the Earth, and the probability of collision with the Earth is greatly improved, even more than 30%, and the probability of collision with Venus is the largest, reaching more than 50%, and the remaining 20%, Ceres will rush directly to the sun and become part of the solar fuel.
"There is no solution, we have to make things foolproof, not to mention that the chance of collision between Ceres and Earth is as high as 30%, and the chance of collision with Mars is only 10%, so we continue to adjust the orbit of Ceres now."
Then Zhu Lei began to order the fleet to constantly adjust the orbit of Ceres, and finally after more than ten hours of continuous adjustment, after calculating that the probability of collision between Ceres and Mars reached 100%.
Despite the help of the Sun's gravity, it is actually quite difficult to adjust the orbit of Kuros, but now it has finally reached a 100% chance of colliding with Mars.
However, this time Zhu Lei is not the end of their time, in the next hundred days, they will follow Ceres, until he collides with Mars, and during the period of its collision with Mars, Zhu Lei They are not without nothing to do, the weight of the heart is as high as more than 9 billion billion tons, the diameter is more than 960 kilometers, and now the speed of Ceres has reached more than 20 kilometers per second, such a speed is very dangerous if it directly hits Mars, and it is even possible that eggs hit stones and directly hit Mars, So after reaching the vicinity of Mars, Zhu Lei and the others had to find a way to make the speed of Ceres less than ten kilometers per hour.
After the most advanced computer simulation calculations of the Ming Empire, only when the speed drops below ten kilometers per second, the problem of Mars explosion caused by Ceres' impact on Mars can be completely solved.
And during the flight of Ceres to Mars, if it is hit by an object, it is likely to change its direction and the planet crashes into the Earth, although there are many ways to destroy Ceres with the current technology of mankind.
However, if Ceres is directly destroyed, it will have a great impact on the plan of human beings to transform Mars, although human beings found that there are a lot of water resources on Mars when they explored Mars, but in fact, compared to the earth, Mars water resources are very scarce.
There is just a lot of water resources on Ceres that can be replenished, so Ceres is very important for the entire Mars program, once Ceres is destroyed, then Mars will get sufficient water replenishment, which will have a direct impact on the future transformation of the Martian environment, so if Ceres is destroyed, human beings must find a dwarf planet the same size as Ceres to replenish the water resources of Mars, and there are not many such dwarf planets in the entire solar system.