Chapter 282: Mars Project II

The technology of changing the magnetic field of the planet, so far human science and technology have not been able to do it, but the specific things have to wait for the scientific research ship to come back from Mars to discuss, after all, although the scientists of the Ming Empire have done some surveys on the relatively recent stars of the earth for more than ten years, and even sent unmanned aerial vehicles to conduct landing surveys, but after all, it is an unmanned probe, and can only have a preliminary understanding of Mars, and the specific can only be detected when the scientific research spacecraft arrives on Mars.

In the past ten years, the scientists of the Ming Empire have come to the preliminary results that the diameter of Mars is only about half of the Earth, the volume is only 1/10 of the Earth, nine times that of the Moon, and the gravity is only 2/5 of the Earth, 5 times that of the Moon, and the volume of the entire Mars is only about 15% of the Earth. However, unlike the Moon, Mars is directly exposed to space, so it is very affected by the solar wind, but the Moon is different from the Moon, although the Moon is more than 300,000 kilometers away from the Earth, the Moon is still within the protection range of the Earth's magnetic field, and the influence of the solar wind is much less.

The rotation speed of Mars is about 62 hours, which is a little slower than the rotation speed of the Earth, but the rotation speed of Mars is very long, taking 687 days for each revolution, which means that it takes two years for Mars to revolution.

This time, Mars is closest to the earth, and it is also the place that the scientists of the Ming Empire who are in favor of transforming Mars value the most, after all, in the entire solar system, the only planet with the same rotation speed as the earth is Mars.

Although there are four seasons on Mars, the temperature difference between Mars is very large, the highest temperature difference can reach 160 degrees, the average temperature of Mars is about -36 degrees, the winter temperature is about -133 degrees, and the maximum temperature during the day in summer is only about 27 degrees.

Although the temperature difference of Mars is very large, although the temperature difference of Mars is very large, but it is not impossible to change, with the current technology of human beings, the temperature difference of Mars can still be used, but the most important thing is the density of the atmosphere on Mars, that is, the problem of the atmosphere on Mars.

It is precisely because the size of Mars is too small, the gravitational force is not enough, and there is no protection of the magnetic field, so whenever the solar wind arrives, it is very easy to cause the atmosphere of Mars to escape, so the atmosphere above Mars is very thin, and it can even be said that there is equal to nothing, after all, the samples collected by imperial scientists and probes are inferred.

The concentration of the Martian atmosphere is on average only one percent of that of Earth, and the main composition of the atmosphere is more than 95% of carbon dioxide gas, while the rest is composed of nitrogen, argon, and water vapor.

It can be said that the environment of Mars is very harsh, if you want to transform, just the atmosphere of Mars will cost countless human time and money, after all, the transformation of Mars does not mean that you can change it if you want to, but now there are still many scientists in the Ming Empire who are very keen on transforming Mars.

However, the government of the Ming Empire is also very clear about the ideas of these people, and there are many people in the government officials of the Ming Empire who agree with their views, after all, with the increase of the human population, the earth will definitely not be able to meet the endless growth of the human population in less than 50 years, after all, although the earth is huge, and now human technology is very fast, the major deserts on the earth have now been governed, and it is absolutely no problem for the earth to feed another 20 billion people in its current state.

But after 20 years, the population of the Ming Empire will definitely far exceed 30 billion, although the Ming Empire can rely on science and technology to increase the yield of crops, and even through genetic technology to make plants more suitable for survival in space and the moon, so that everyone in the Ming Empire will have enough food to maintain life, but the population of the Ming Empire will continue to grow, if you don't find a way now, it will be too late, and Mars is the closest to the earth.

Although there are all kinds of difficulties in transforming Mars, and there are many things that are still difficult to do under the current scientific and technological conditions, the Ming Empire is very confident that it will be able to overcome these difficulties in the next 20 years, and Zhu Lei himself has absolutely no doubt about this, after all, the wisdom of human beings, especially the wisdom of those scientists, is not what it used to be, although the wisdom medicine has not yet been popularized to the entire Ming Empire, after all, it cannot be truly mass-produced. However, wisdom potions have begun to be used by scientists who have made outstanding contributions in various fields in the Ming Empire, so the level of wisdom of these scientists' brain domain development has been greatly improved.

Therefore, it is feasible to use 20 years to overcome the difficulties of transforming Mars, and even if there are difficulties, Zhu Lei still has the existence of the mall, although there are very few technologies sold in the mall in this regard, but compared to controllable nuclear fusion technology, this technology can still be found.

Therefore, the Ming Empire has already begun the second step towards the universe more than ten years ago, which is the so-called Mars plan, of course, the second part of the Ming Empire's plan has a very poor time span, and the whole plan will take 50 to 100 years.

And this plan is also divided into three steps, the first step is to send a Mars rover to conduct a detailed reconnaissance of the space around Mars, understand the changes in the magnetic field around Mars, and investigate the geography and landform of Mars. Then send a Mars rover to land on Mars, conduct a further detailed investigation of the atmosphere, soil and environment of Mars, and then collect Martian soil samples and return them to the moon for detailed analysis, and after obtaining detailed data, the second step will begin.

The second step of the plan is to send a manned scientific research spacecraft to conduct further investigation of Mars, after all, compared with people, the machine is very rigid, even if the Ming Empire now has a very developed intelligent technology, but it is still far from being comparable with human beings, so it is very necessary to send a scientific research spacecraft to conduct further investigation of Mars, and sending a scientific research spacecraft to Mars for an overall investigation is also the most important means of collecting Mars data, and the scientific expedition personnel in addition to the overall investigation of me first, It will also exhaust the scientific expedition personnel to land on Mars for in-depth investigation, and the scientific expedition personnel will also establish a scientific research base on Mars, for a detailed understanding of various activities on Mars and transmit the data back to the earth, only after the manned spacecraft completes the investigation of Mars and establishes the data model, the third and most important step will be carried out, that is, the transformation of the Martian environment, this step is also the most difficult step in all links, But those who propony of this plan are very confident that they can transform Mars into an extraordinarily habitable planet.