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According to the probe's estimates, the main planet of the binary star system is about 1.5 times the diameter of the Earth, and the rotation period is estimated to be about 30 hours, while the smaller moon revolving around it is about one-third the diameter of the main planet, the rotation period is about 20 days of spacecraft time, and the distance between the two planets is 700,000 kilometers, which is about twice the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Other data is unknown, and further investigation of the planet is required. The Voyager reported.

"Is there really a third?" Although the appearance of the two planets was already shown on the screen in front of him, Zhou Xin was still taken aback by the data reported by the Voyager, and he estimated a little in his heart, "Isn't the diameter of this satellite more than 6,000 kilometers?" That's bigger than some of the smaller planets in the solar system. ”

"That's an exaggeration." Dart, who has an understanding of the relationship between the Earth and the Moon, also spoke, "I guess this satellite should not be naturally formed, like the Moon, but has undergone a special generation process. He reckoned.

As the probe approached further, the planet on the screen became bigger and bigger, Zhou Xin and they could already vaguely see the meteorological changes on the surface of the planet from the light side of the planet, on the sky on this side of the planet, a huge cloud floated above, covering the terrain below it, Zhou Xin and they couldn't see what was on the surface of the planet. At the same time, the satellite was hiding in the shadow of the planet at this time, so Zhou Xin and the others couldn't see the specific situation on the surface of the satellite clearly.

The probe continued to approach the planet, at this time, there were no longer two planets on the screen at the same time, the satellite was slowly moving to the edge of the screen, and even a small part had disappeared from the screen, at this time, the probe suddenly found a small object was approaching at high speed.

Turning the camera in the direction of the planet, everyone arrived, and a few hundred meters or so near the probe, a truck-sized meteor was streaking across the camera at high speed. Just when Zhou Xin was glad that the meteorite did not hit the probe just right, the meteorite had already passed near the probe, and the direction it was moving was exactly the direction of the planet.

Glancing at the meteor that was going away at high speed, Zhou Xin said with a little worry: "This direction - it looks like it will hit the surface of the planet, and the impact of a meteorite of this size, if you are unlucky, may have a great impact on this civilization." ”

Darton nodded, "It's not good if they hit a populated area, should we warn them." ”

Zhou Xin thought about it for a while, and then shook his head, "It's impossible for us to remind them every time, and I'm a little strange just now, it's an asteroid belt adjacent to this planet, so this planet should be hit by asteroids from time to time." For this situation, this civilization should be prepared, let's see how they deal with it. With that, he motioned for the probe to follow the trajectory of the meteor, wanting to see what would follow.

After following for a while, the probe noticed a very strange situation, and the Voyager reported, "Your Excellency, the probe has noticed that the orbit of this meteor is slightly offset. Originally, it was directly towards the planet, but now it has deviated to the side of the planet, and according to the ship's estimates, if its orbit continues to deviate according to the current situation, then the meteor will eventually pass over the sky very close to the planet, instead of hitting the surface of the planet. ”

After listening to the Voyager's report, Zhou Xin was puzzled, "The orbit has shifted?" Could it be that the civilization on the planet has begun to exert its influence on this approaching meteor? Voyager, did the probe see anything approaching the meteor? ”

Before Voyager could explain, Atlas rushed to say: "No, it is the huge moon next to it that has an impact on this meteor, and its gravitational pull has affected the meteor, causing the meteor's flight trajectory to change slightly. ”

"It looks like this satellite is doing a lot like the moon." Dart listened to Atlas's explanation and added a sentence next to him.

Zhou Xin looked at the distant meteor on the screen and nodded, "In this way, similar situations should have happened many times, it seems that if there is a large satellite around a living planet, it is indeed very useful, at least it can help it avoid many impact events." ”

After knowing that the meteor would not hit the planet, Zhou Xin and the others lost interest in it, so Zhou Xin asked the probe to give up tracking the meteor and continue to approach the planet, so the perspective on the screen turned back to the direction facing the planet.

After a while, the satellite in the corner of the screen has disappeared, and the planet also occupies a large area on the screen, at this time, although there is a large cloud on the surface of the planet, Zhou Xin and they can already see the existence of obvious land and sea from the place where the clouds are not covered. Of course, a large part of the planet was exposed by oceans, and most of the land was obscured by clouds, and through some thin clouds, Zhou Xin and they could vaguely distinguish the shape of the continent in their direction.

The main body of this continent is located in the southern hemisphere of the planet, roughly in an irregular triangle, one corner of the triangle crosses the equator of the planet and comes to the northern hemisphere, and at the southernmost corner of the continent there is a slight white on the screen, which is slightly different from the white of the clouds, thinking that it is the scenery of the polar regions, because of the existence of clouds, Zhou Xin They can not see the details of the terrain on the continent. This continent is very huge, and as you can see from the lens, it occupies almost most of the southern hemisphere on this side of the planet, and according to the size of this planet, the size of this continent is almost the size of Eurasia on Earth.

After looking at the southern hemisphere, everyone's eyes came to the northern hemisphere of the planet, in this half of the clouds are much rarer than on the other side, so the field of vision is relatively broad, but in this half, there is no obvious continent on the surface of the planet, only a small piece of land is very close to the south pole, but this may only be a corner of the continent, because this land extends along the south pole of the planet to the side away from the probe, Zhou Xin They can't see the whole picture of this land.

As the probe continued to approach the planet, several artificial satellites could already be seen in the field of view of the camera in orbit between the probe and the planet, and Zhou Xin asked the probe to bypass those satellites and get closer to the planet's synchronous orbit. Here, they saw the unbelievable.

In the synchronous orbit not far from the probe, there are some cylindrical man-made buildings side by side, although these buildings are of different sizes, according to the probe's estimates, the large cylinder is about 100 meters long, and the small one may only be more than 10 meters, but they are neatly arranged together in a certain order. Between these cylinders, there are still spacecraft flying from time to time, and it looks busy.

Zhou Xin counted the number of cylinders a little, and found that the number was more than a hundred, and he was a little surprised, "With so many man-made buildings, the level of civilization and technology on this planet is not low." We had tried to build similar structures in space near Earth before, but found that the resource consumption was too high, and it was not as easy as building a base directly on the moon, so we abandoned the idea. ”

Dart glanced at the building, and then said, "I don't know if the level of technology is high, but the consumption of resources and a lot of time is certain. After thinking for a while, he added, "Judging from the size and number of buildings, I don't think their technology level is necessarily very high, otherwise it would be enough to just build a building about the size of this ship, and there is no need to build so many small buildings." ”

"But even then, the civilization is already remarkable." Spred also exclaimed, "With so many buildings, it takes a lot of time to think about it, how the hell did they do this?" ”

However, Zhou Xin's mind was not on how these buildings were built, he stared at the buildings on the screen and said to himself, "What is the purpose of their construction of so many space buildings?" If it's just for habitation, with their technology, it's not very good to use it on that satellite, why put it in space? But if it's just for scientific research, there are a lot of buildings here. ”

Zhou Xin and the others hadn't finished studying this group of space buildings before an accident happened. Without warning, the picture on the screen suddenly disappeared and turned into a series of snowflake spots, seeing this situation, everyone was a little confused So, Zhou Xin asked suspiciously: "Voyager, what's going on?" How did the picture come to be like this? ”

"Just now, the connection between the ship and the probe was suddenly interrupted, for unknown reasons, and the machine is trying to regain contact with the probe." The Voyager replied.

"Interrupted?" Zhou Xin looked puzzled, "How could it be interrupted suddenly?" ”

After waiting for more than ten minutes, the screen was still in the state of snowflakes, and at this time, the Voyager also reported again: "The reconnection has failed, and the ship has completely lost contact with the probe." ”

"Do you know what the reason is?" Zhou Xin asked.

"The reason is unknown." The Voyager's answer was still the same.

At this time, Spred spoke: "Could it be that the detector happened to be broken?" The same problem has happened before, where the probe suddenly loses contact during the probing. ”

Because he had indeed encountered this kind of problem before, Zhou Xin did not continue to investigate, but asked Voyager to switch the scene to another probe, which was just behind the probe that had lost contact. In a few moments, it will reach the location of the detector that has lost contact.

The screen then repeated what everyone had seen before, and after ten minutes, the detector finally reached the position where it had lost contact.

Although something similar had happened before, Zhou Xin still wanted to know what was wrong with the missing probe, so he asked the probe to search the nearby starry sky. However, to everyone's surprise, the probe searched a large area of the vicinity, but still found no sign of missing detectors.

"Strange, it stands to reason that in just ten minutes, the probe shouldn't go far." Zhou Xin suddenly had a bad premonition.

"The ship has also re-searched the images sent back by the probe, and indeed found no trace of the previous probe." The Voyager reported.

"Brother Captain, they haven't found that detector either?" Atlas also spoke, but then she casually said a detail that Zhou Xin was a little concerned about, "But there is a lot of space junk near this probe, did the previous probe hit these space junk." ”

"Space junk?" Since there was no space junk on the screen, Zhou Xin didn't react at first, "No, there is still a certain distance from the planet's synchronous orbit here, how can there be space junk?" Then he thought about it, and realized that something was wrong.

"yes, a lot of space junk." Atlas confirmed, "And it's all metal trash." Then she said in a smug tone, "If it weren't for someone controlling this detector, maybe this detector would be like the previous one." ”

"Wait." Zhou Xin thought back to what he saw before, "Voyager, did the missing probe send back a large amount of space junk on the screen?" ”

A few seconds later, Voyager replied, "In the footage sent back earlier, the missing probe did not detect the presence of space junk nearby. ”

Zhou's ominous premonition grew stronger and stronger, and he instructed the Voyager, "Let that probe collect some space junk around and see what it is." ”

Due to the analytical equipment on the detector itself, it did not take long for it to send a conclusion, "According to the analysis, the composition of the metal fragment is the same as that used on the detector, and it is preliminarily concluded that the fragment is the remains of the detector." ”

Everyone was surprised by this conclusion, and it didn't take long for the probe to make a new discovery.

"The probe found the markings used on the ship in the recovered wreckage, and it has been determined that the debris was left behind by the previous probe."

"What's going on, how did the probe become like this?" Zhou Xin was shocked, "Could it be that the missing probe has been destroyed......?" ”