When Nie Peng returned home, he saw the draft on his desk, and then remembered that he wanted to customize a set of vacuum lighting equipment, and according to the complex environment of the lunar surface, he also needed to be heat-resistant and cold-resistant to store electricity.

Nie Peng sent a WeChat message to his cousin, asking about the purchase channel of similar equipment, and originally thought that he would not be able to wait for a reply until at least the next day, but he didn't want his cousin to send the two photos directly.

[L-380 V type, full storage illumination for 72 hours, irradiation distance 0-1000 meters, brightness 2000 lumens. The tail list of the Second Institute of Science and Industry, 2700 a. You want me to send it to you tomorrow.]

[Sharp, Lao Tie, I'll get it from you early tomorrow morning] Nie Peng replied quickly, but he didn't expect the lighting to be solved so quickly, but it was unexpected.

The problem is solved, and when the cooperation of Ah Si Li Kang is dealt with in the past two days, you can dig the base with peace of mind. Thinking of this, Nie Peng picked up his mobile phone and searched for the base shapes in major science fiction films from Baidu, and built a model of his base in his mind while searching:

There must be a storage module, and the equipment must be transported back and forth to dig a mountain in the province.

The second is lighting, always can't be black, every time you hit the flashlight to come in, you have to have a battery, the lithium battery temperature is low and it doesn't work, you have to use a nickel-cadmium battery, it's toxic to be toxic, it's good to isolate it.

Plant some more plants, and by the way, bring back some lunar soil and try to grow them first to see if you can grow potatoes on lunar soil (a tribute to the Martian).

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Early the next morning, Nie Peng rushed to his cousin's unit to get the lights, tried and found that it was still fully charged, and he was very satisfied. After paying the money, I hurried home to test the lights.

When the lights were lit on the dark moon, Nie Peng felt that the contagion of the light was so shocking. Because there is no interference from atmospheric impurities, a straight band of light is displayed in the field of vision, pointing into the distance.

Nie Peng fiddled with the lamp for a while before putting it on the ground, and walked more than ten meters away to observe whether the lamp would continue to work after leaving the air pressure environment around him.

After waiting for ten minutes, Nie Peng was overjoyed when he saw that the light pillar of the lamp had not changed significantly. This means that at least at night, the work lighting is guaranteed.

So he turned off the searchlight, brought it back to Earth, and rushed to the company to prepare the documents.

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At 22:15 Washington time, Harvin, the head of the Mendel Project, was leaning on the leather sofa at home. After watching two episodes of the horror TV series, he still had some lingering interest, so he planned to use the help of beer to get himself to sleep.

A phone call woke him up, and looking at the caller ID, it was actually the person in charge of the Yuanwanggu Observation Center, and Harvin hurriedly put down his beer.

"Hello, this is Harvin"

"Harvin, we got some weird stuff, it's unbelievable, my God, I think you should check it out." An excited voice came from the other end of the phone.

"What is it? Where are you? Harvin's expression, which was a little sleepy from the stimulation of alcohol, suddenly woke up.

"I was in Yuanwang Valley, and the boys had just captured a pillar of light from a near-Earth satellite, and then sent the picture to my phone, and I arrived. Oh my God, it's incredible, it's just, it's just... ”

"What pillar of light?" Haven was confused.

"The Lunar Pillar, near the crater next to Mount Lumke, even shook for a while, and then remained in a direct state, which is all we can see with the accuracy of our observations. Oh, come on, come on. ”

"Wait for me for 15 minutes." Harvin dropped the beer can, grabbed a coat and ran out the door. Since the place where I live is very close to the Houston Space Center, there are few vehicles at night, so I drove without hesitation.

All the way.

When he pushed open the door of the monitoring center, several people were discussing something in front of a monitor, and when he entered the door, a middle-aged man complained:

"God, you're slow."

Harvin looked at his watch, 11 minutes, faster than expected.

"Come and see what we've found." The middle-aged man waved his hand and motioned for him to come over, pointing to the monitor and said.

Haven stared at the screen, and saw a pillar of light in a pitch-black picture, because it was an overhead shot, the pillar of light illuminated an ellipse on the ground, and as the photo played, the oval pillar of light flickered far and near, and even two photos shot straight towards the lens, showing a spot of light on the screen.

"Is there only these pictures?" Although he was already shocked, Harvin knew that it was difficult to determine what was going on based on the pictures of this device alone.

That's what we can see at the moment, because of the angle of the lens, only this one "eye" has been captured. The middle-aged man said.

"Give me latitude and longitude, and where is the LRO (the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched in 2009 from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, Florida, USA, operating in a circular polar orbit about 50 kilometers from the lunar surface)?" Harvin knew that it was rare to be able to take such a sharp photo.

He estimated from the scale that the radius of the beam of light would not be greater than 2 kilometers, and if the observation equipment aimed at the moon wanted to shoot the light at this distance, the monitoring range would be up to 1,000 square kilometers.

"The LRO should be over the North Pole at the moment, and I just calculated that if there is no orbit change, then it will fly over the pillar of light in 474 minutes."

The man with glasses sitting in front of the monitor said that as a measurement and control person who has been working with numbers for many years, he can draw the orbit of the LRO even with his eyes closed.

"Eight hours, just waiting." Harvin frowned, "Jamie, give me a list of radio telescopes that are not on a mission right now"

"Yes, sir," the eyed man looked up quickly.

"David" Harvin stared at the middle-aged man, "back up the picture and give me a copy, the original is archived, top secret." ”

"Yes sir." The middle-aged man ran to the computer with an excited expression.

"Jenny, record all the messages, emails, phone calls, photos, etc. sent by everyone just now, and destroy them in a centralized manner."

"No problem, sir." A blonde female employee replied.

Seeing that everyone in front of him was busy, Harvin was not idle, but walked quickly to a table with an old-fashioned phone, picked it up and dialed it out without thinking.

"Hello, this is the NASA monitoring team, please confirm your identity."

"YXCO9903m" Havin clearly says a piece of character so that the other party can recognize it by sound.

"Good evening, Mr. Harvin, please say what you want" The voice on the phone was cold, unusual.

"I need urgent special approval from the Chief Executive to call on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Level 2 authority within 24 hours." Haven said.

"Yes, sir. We will get back to you as soon as possible. The other party hung up the phone, and there was no hint of greeting in it.

Level 2 clearance means that the spacecraft can be manipulated for actions such as attitude fine-tuning, camera capture, etc., which is enough for Harvin.