"A surprising discovery?" Zhou Xin was also a little surprised to hear the description of the Voyager, and he said to himself, "What a surprising discovery that would be." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"What surprising discovery?" Spred's voice came from behind Zhou Xin, who looked back at the cabin door and found that he was walking in from the outside with a tired face.

"Have you rested? What about the people in the living pod? Seeing his expression, Zhou Xin asked with concern.

"I slept for a few hours." Spred replied as he walked into the command module, "The situation in the living cabin is fine, just now, the last unconscious person has woken up. It's okay on our side, the Atlanteans are a little more troublesome, they are numerous, and most of them are children, so Dart is still there busy taking care of those who are still weak, and Ralph and Christy are also there to help him. I'm done here, so I'm going to come to the command cabin and see if you need help here. With that, he walked up to Zhou Xin and looked up at the big screen.

"What kind of surprising discovery were you talking about?" Looking at the star map on the screen, Spred continued to ask.

"Nothing, just talking to the Voyager about what the Atlanteans left on the star map." Then, Zhou Xin told him the news of the discovery of a new planet and the information that the Atlanteans had left on the star map.

"Oh? Have you discovered the planets within this star system? Or is it located within the habitable zone? After listening to Zhou's words, Spred became interested in the planet.

"Yes." Zhou Xin confirmed again, "And judging from the appearance, this planet should be a rock planet. With that, he asked Voyager to cut the probe's footage back up.

At this time, the probe was already closer to the planet, and the planet on the screen was significantly larger than what Zhou Xin had seen before. If you look closely, the undulating terrain on the planet's surface is already faintly recognizable. Of course, the most obvious thing is that Zhou Xin saw white areas at both ends of the planet, that is, there are polar regions on this planet, which means that there is a great possibility of water resources on this planet.

Zhou Xin obviously thought so, "Oh? It seems that there may be water on this planet, so in this case, it is more likely that there is life on it. ”

"Is our luck so good?" Spred was skeptical, "It's unrealistic to have life on every planet you encounter." I think it's better not to be so optimistic. ”

"I'm just talking." Zhou Xin replied, "However, if this planet is devoid of life, there should still be some other unique features, otherwise the Atlanteans would not show special attention to it on the star map." ”

"Anyway, the probe is already close to the planet, and we'll find out after a while." Spred answered.

After more than an hour, the planet on the screen had taken up half the size of the screen, and at this time, the probe also sent back the first preliminary investigation report.

"The diameter of this planet is about four-fifths of the diameter of the Earth, and the rocky surface can be clearly seen on the planet, which is a typical rocky planet." The rover reported, "The planet's rotation period is estimated to be about fourteen hours, and the orbital period is about four hundred and seventy-three days. There are no obvious traces of liquid water near the equator of the planet, and there are obvious ice sheets at the poles of the planet, and other information will be reported after entering the orbit of the planet. ”

"Haven't you seen any traces of liquid water yet?" Zhou Xin was a little disappointed when he heard the news, but he didn't say anything, but continued to look at the maintenance arrangements for the spacecraft sent by the Voyager while waiting for the next message from the probe.

Next, he saw a report on the maintenance of the engine, which showed that the shell of the Voyager's engine IV was so badly damaged that the engineering robot had no way to repair it, and the shell needed to be replaced in its entirety.

Zhou Xin frowned and asked the Voyager, "Is the damage to Engine No. 4 so serious?" Replace the housing in its entirety? Is it really impossible to fix it? ”

"Theoretically impossible." Voyager replied, "Engine Four's shell has been completely deformed, and the engineering robot has previously inspected the shell, and some parts of the engine shell that appear to be intact have cracks in the metal inside. At the same time, the violent deformation of the shell has begun to compress some of its internal devices, and now, the engineering robot has cut some of the severely compressed parts, otherwise the internal devices will be damaged due to these compressions. ”

"In other words, the shell of Engine No. 4 has been structurally problematic." Zhou Xin concluded that after getting the answer confirmed by the Voyager, Zhou Xin said helplessly, "It seems that the shell can only be replaced, Voyager, if the shell is replaced as a whole, how long will this work take." ”

"It will take at least a month." Voyager gave a not very long time, but the next sentence is not very optimistic, "But the premise is that all the robots on the ship must participate in the maintenance of the engine, and more importantly, there are not enough resources on the ship to repair the engine." ”

"Again, there is a lack of resources." Zhou Xin sighed, then he looked up at the planet on the screen, "But it's okay, at least I found a planet that can be docked, Voyager, let the spacecraft approach this planet." ”

"The order is illegal and cannot be executed." The Voyager ruthlessly refused, "The probe has not yet determined whether there is life on this planet, and this ship cannot get any closer to this planet." ”

At this time, Zhou Xin remembered the regulations in the navigation manual, and he waved his hand helplessly, "Okay, then wait for the probe to send a message." With that, he put aside the maintenance report for Engine No. 4 in his hand and picked up the other report and read it.

After more than an hour, the probe finally entered the orbit of the planet, and further reports were sent back at this time. At the same time that this report was sent back, Dart also dragged his tired body into the command module, and without bothering to learn about the situation from Dart, Zhou Xin focused on the report sent back by the probe. In this report, in addition to more accurately stating the size of the planet, the rotation period, and the orbital period previously reported, Zhou Xin also saw other new information.

The next first piece of information made Zhou Xin a little disappointed, the probe showed through the spectral analysis of the planet's near-earth that there is no atmosphere on the surface of the planet, and this news alone can be said to sentence the life on the planet to death. The next news shows that the probe still did not find the existence of liquid water at such a close range, but there is water on the surface of the planet, but it is in a solid form.

After seeing this information, Zhou Xin can basically be sure that there can be no life on this planet, but he is not too disappointed, for the current Voyager, as long as it can find a planet to collect resources, it is content, as for whether there is life on the planet is not very important, perhaps, if there is a higher life on the planet, it will also affect the resource collection of the spacecraft.

Then, Zhou Xin's eyes swept over the last message, it was not strange that this message appeared in this position, but the data described on the message was a little weird. Based on the orbit of the probe, the planet's surface gravity is calculated to be only about two-fifths of the Earth's gravity. Based on the size of the planet, it can be concluded that the density of the planet is only about half that of the Earth.

"Half the density of the Earth?" After reading this news, Zhou Xin asked the Voyager suspiciously, "Is this calculation accurate?" ”

"The error is around 5%." Voyager replied, "More accurate data would require a probe to land on the planet's surface to measure, but even at the maximum limit of error, the density of the planet would not increase much." ”

"Brother Captain, this is indeed what it looks like." After the Voyager finished speaking, Atlas's voice followed, "This planet is really light. ”

"If that's the case, then this planet is seriously lacking in heavy elements." After receiving the confirmation, Zhou Xin said in a worried tone, "We may not be able to collect enough resources on this planet." Then he instructed the Voyager, "Anyway, send a probe to the surface of the planet." ”

"Understood."

So, the camera on the screen was switched to the picture of another probe, just after the discovery of this planet, Voyager has already sent more than a dozen nearby probes to fly to this planet, after the first probe to discover this planet has circled the planet's synchronous orbit several times, the other probes have also approached this planet one after another, and now the footage shows the picture from one of the probes. After passing through the planet's synchronous orbit, the probe did not stop, but continued to approach the planet's surface. This probe is not the closest to the surface of the planet, in the footage, another probe is flying in the camera, Zhou Xin saw on the screen, the two probes are falling towards the surface of the planet at almost the same speed.

Since there is no atmosphere on the surface of the planet, the probe is falling at an extremely high speed. In just a few minutes, the edge of the planet, which could still be seen on the screen in curved arcs, disappeared and was replaced by a straight horizon. After a few more moments, even the horizon vanished, and the entire screen was completely covered by the planet's surface. Looking at the rapidly approaching ground, Zhou Xin couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement.

After a while, the probe was very close to the surface of the planet, and some of the details on the ground were clearly discernible. Zhou Xin saw on the screen that the place where the probe was going to land seemed to be a large plain, and on the plain there were several cracks of different lengths. However, it is disappointing that no life is seen in the scene that appears on the screen, not even a single grass has been found, and even Zhou Xin has not found any trace of the existence of liquid water.

At this time, the probe that appeared in the lens on the screen had begun to emit fire in the direction of the planet's surface, and at the same time as the fire appeared, Zhou Xin saw that the falling speed of the probe had dropped significantly. However, the probe showed no signs of slowing down, and he was still falling towards the surface of the planet at high speed.

Just as it approached the detector on the screen, the screen shook violently, and then the screen began to shake. As the screen shook violently, a blue fire began to appear in the corner of the screen, and the speed of the detector slowed down significantly.

At this time, the detector was already very close to the ground, and the detector on the screen had already begun to perform the landing procedure, from the perspective of the camera, Zhou Xin saw that the detector in the lens had begun to stretch out the support feet underneath, and the airbag as a buffer had also begun to inflate.

It didn't take long for the buffered probe to make contact with the ground, and the landing movement seemed to be very large, even with the cushion of the air bag, the probe still smashed a large crater on the surface of the planet. Then, the probe with the airbag bounced high again.

There was no time to continue to observe whether the bounced probe had successfully landed, and the probe, which was the field of view, also began to enter the landing procedure, and the screen went black for a moment, because the lens was completely obscured by the buffer airbag. After more than ten seconds, a violent impact sound was heard on the screen, and it seemed that the probe had hit the surface of the planet, but the movement did not stop. In the next few seconds, Zhou Xin heard a slight metal collision, followed by another impact. However, this time the impact was obviously not as loud as the first, and within a few seconds of the second impact, several more impacts were heard, but the sound of the impact became smaller and smaller each time, and finally, the movement on the screen finally ended completely.

After the end, there was still darkness on the screen, and Zhou Xin couldn't help asking: "Voyager, why is there such a big movement in landing, I remember that the previous landings didn't all fall directly on the ground at one time, why did the probe bounce on the ground this time?" ”

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency, the machine underestimated the gravity of this planet, the gravity on the surface of the planet is 3% smaller than previously calculated, and the thrust of the retro is too large, which caused the probe to bounce in the process of touching the ground, but this bounce has no effect on the probe." The Voyager explained.

Zhou Xin nodded and continued to ask: "Then why hasn't the airbag blocking the lens disappeared now?" ”

"Due to the bouncing during the landing, the probe did not land on the ground in a correct manner, and now it is adjusting its attitude."

Just seconds after Voyager answered, the screen lit up, and the footage showed a scene near the probe's landing site......