Chapter 33, Mysterious White Highlights

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Since the discovery of the hide-and-seek Ceres, astronomers on the "Zheng He" have been staring at it, and at the same time, huge scientific expeditions are also flying towards Ceres, and it is still far away, and it will take some days to arrive.

However, scientists can not be idle, using various scientific instruments have begun to make various observations and measurements of Ceres, and as the distance from Ceres gets closer and closer, "Zheng He" can already take relatively clear photos, and scientists are studying the newly taken photos at this time.

In the huge hall of the "Zheng He" Scientific Research Center, hundreds of scientists such as Jiang Zhipeng, Ying Bainian, and Bai Fengling are surrounding in the middle at this time, where a huge virtual 3D stereoscopic image is slowly rotating, and the image is a very common planet image in the universe.

"Ceres is too small compared to the Earth, its surface gravitational acceleration is only 0.27, compared to our Earth's 9.8, it is not a level at all!"

"Ceres' escape speed is only 510 meters per second, which means that if you shoot a bullet in the sky with a rifle on Ceres, this bullet can escape gravity and become a moon of Ceres!"

Win 100 years with easy-to-understand words for everyone present to analyze the data of Ceres, there are many types of scientists here, and there are not many who really understand astronomy, so it is best to explain astronomical knowledge in layman's terms, so that everyone can better understand.

"Ceres is 950 kilometers in diameter, and if you count the asteroids, it is undoubtedly a giant, but if you put it into the sequence of planets, it is a dwarf, so much so that it has won the title of dwarf planet!"

"The mass of Ceres is 950 million tons, the mass of the Moon is 734.9 billion tons, and the mass of Ceres is only 1/773 of that of the Moon, but according to the information we have now, 40% of the mass on Ceres should be water! In other words, Ceres contains 380 million tons of water on it! ”

"What is the concept of 380 million tons of water? Let's simply convert the weight of water into volume, one cubic meter of water is one ton, and the water of Ceres has 380 million cubic meters, which is equal to 38 million cubic kilometers, which is equal to 38 million cubic kilometers, and we all know that the content of the earth's water resources is 1.386 billion cubic kilometers, of which the freshwater resources are 35 million cubic kilometers, so the water resources of a planet on Ceres are more than the total freshwater resources of the earth! ”

"Great!" When I heard this, the scientists present and the scientists who were far away on the earth couldn't help but admire, the content of this Ceres' water resources is even more than the earth's freshwater resources, which is of great significance for the future development of human space.

"Haven't we been worrying that Mars doesn't have enough water? If we can transport the water from Ceres to Mars, the water needed to transform Mars will be enough! ”

The other scientists nodded when they heard this, and the transformation of Mars, which originally seemed to be incomplete, has basically been upgraded now, and it seems that the decision of the company's top management to transform Mars for immigration is not nonsense, but still has a certain feasibility.

"After everyone understands the basic information of Ceres, I will show you something that can make people more interested!" Win Centennial smiled mysteriously, and then pressed the controller in his hand, and there was a place on the slowly rotating image of Ceres with some white bright spots on it.

"Look, in the northern hemisphere of Ceres, in a crater, we photographed a white bright spot here, and through the observation of a large space telescope, we found that it is actually composed of many small bright spots, I don't know what you think?"

Everyone was attracted by the topic of winning a hundred years at once, there are countless white bright spots on a planet, and everyone instantly came to the spirit, this gray asteroid and meteorite have seen a lot, and the interest in changing the color comes.

"I think these dazzling bright spots are caused by the reflection of sunlight by strongly reflective materials, which may be ice, as you said earlier, 40% of the mass of this Ceres is water, plus Ceres is a naked star with no atmosphere, and it is also a death star with no internal activity, I think there is a high probability that it is ice!"

Bai Fengling thought about it and put forward his opinion, and his point of view was supported by many scientists, and it was still very convincing and scientifically based.

"I believe there are aliens, what about you?" Some people who usually like to joke even think about it at this time.

"At least there are no aliens in the solar system, I'm sure of this, our telescopes are already very powerful, if there are aliens, there will always be some high-tech discovered by us!" Win Bainian shook his head, expressing his helplessness to people with this kind of jumping thinking, and discussing the white bright spots, he actually beat the aliens all of a sudden, but I have to say that science sometimes needs this kind of jumping thinking.

"I also think it's ice, maybe it's the water produced after the comet impact that freezes at the bottom of the crater, and the reflectivity of the ice is enough to make us look white bright spots after space, and you see, these white bright spots are located in a crater, which supports what I just said, the water produced after the comet impact, and then freezes at low temperatures!"

"I don't agree that it's ice, you can see that the surface of Ceres is generally gray, but we can already be sure that there is a lot of water on Ceres, which means that there may be ice directly below these gray surfaces, and the gray color on this surface should be covered by cosmic dust in a long history!"

"If everything else has been covered, why not here? So I don't think it's ice, it's a crystal of some kind of mineral, such as quartz, which also has a very high reflectivity! ”

Some scientists shook their heads and objected to the notion that it was ice, believing that it was a mineral with a crystalline structure.

"Huh? Could it be a lot of super large diamonds, haha, it seems that the gift we went back to has been settled! ”

"I'm praying for diamonds, what's the use of ice!"

"Why is Ceres so big, so many craters, and there is more than one reflective material in that crater? And there is not a single one of the other craters, all kinds of phenomena show that this is not a coincidence, maybe it is something special, I think whether it is the diamond that everyone is expecting, or aliens, or the ice that is the most likely, we will soon know! (To be continued.) )