Chapter 168, Probe

Liu Qingquan looked at all this with a smile, the resources of a small moon amazed everyone, not to mention the vast interstellar universe, which is very precious and rare diamonds and gold on the earth, maybe there is a planet in the universe that is all made of gold, or all of them are made of diamonds.

Compared with the barren resources on the earth, the universe is the real treasure house, and the real preciousness of the earth lies in its ability to give birth to life, and life is the most precious thing in the universe!

The Xiaoyutu spacecraft has successively launched a number of small satellites, including a geological satellite for exploring and mapping the lunar landform, a resource exploration satellite for exploring resources, and a navigation and positioning satellite for transiting communications and establishing a small communication navigation and positioning satellite......

With the launch of these satellites, the Qingquan space station and the ground control center began to receive more and more clear and detailed lunar data, and the new quantum communication technology developed by the Circumference Wave Band, a Level 2 scientist, can transmit all the information without delay, if the traditional electromagnetic wave communication technology is used, the electromagnetic wave to and from the moon will have a delay of at least more than 1 second.

The moon is smaller than the earth, with a diameter of 3,476 kilometers, which is about 3/11 of the diameter of the earth, and the surface area of the moon is about 3.79×10 square kilometers, which is 1/14 of the earth's surface area, which is slightly smaller than the area of Asia. Its volume is 2.199×10?? Cubic kilometers, 1/49 of the earth, in other words, the earth can hold 49 moons.

The mass of the Moon is 7.349×10?? kilogram, 1/81 of the Earth; The average density of matter is 3.34 grams per cubic centimeter, which is only 3/5 of the density of the earth, and the gravitational force on the moon is only 1/6 of the earth, that is, the weight of 6 kilograms is only 1 kilogram on the moon.

"Launch an unmanned landing probe!" With Jiang Zhipeng's minus sound, a probe was ejected from the Yutu spacecraft, which was 380,000 kilometers away, and flew straight to the surface of the moon.

The moon is not large enough to attract the atmosphere, so the moon has no atmosphere, the landing probe flies to the surface of the moon at an oblique angle of 45 degrees, and when it is about to reach the moon, the anti-gravity engine in the probe begins to work, allowing the probe to slowly and gently land on the surface of the moon.

Different from the jet landing method used in the United States to land on the moon, Qingquan Technology with anti-gravity technology has anti-gravity technology to land more safely and smoothly.

The landing probe landed in a flat basin of the moon, this place is called the moon sea, which is formed by meteorites hitting the surface of the moon, and there are countless large and small moon seas on the moon, which shows that the moon really blocks countless bullets from the universe for the earth.

Of course, 99% of the meteorites will burn off most of their mass due to friction with the Earth's thick atmosphere, and the rest will not matter to the Earth at all, but if the meteorite that forms the 22 largest lunar seas on the Moon hits the Earth, a huge disaster will occur!

The landing probe opened a door, and a lunar rover slowly drove out, and the cameras and communicators overhead spun around, feeling dazed.

The rover slowly drove to the surface of the moon through a ramp extending from the landing probe, first turning its head around to find directions, and then looking into space, a blue planet was constantly photographed.

"Oh~~Oh~" Qingquan Space Station and Ground Control Center, seeing the beautiful scenery of the earth from an alien planet for the first time, everyone couldn't help but cheer! The view of the Earth from the moon is bright and beautiful!

After transmitting the beautiful photos of the earth, the rover quickly put into intense work, slowly looking for something, driving slowly and leisurely on the surface of the moon, from time to time using its own shovel to shovel some dirt into the prepared pre-planned box.

When you come across the stones you are interested in, you will also collect some small ones, and when you meet some big ones, you can't help but go up and knock on them! If it weren't for the fact that there was no air on the moon, and the medium needed for sound propagation, it would have been a sonorous knocking sound, and any stone on the moon was very rich in iron.

The rover kept knocking and digging the dirt all the way, like a naughty and curious child, but in fact, this was controlled by the Qingquan Technology space station and the ground control center.

Every place to stay is based on the results of the exploration of resources in space, and it is not really aimless, random digging and moving stones.

Of course, compared with the detectors launched by other countries, Qingquan Technology's rover is very large, and it is a little smaller than ordinary cars, but the things that can be loaded are still very limited.

After a few hours, the inside of the rover was finally full, and at this time it finally reluctantly walked back, following the tracks of the car in front of it, all the way back to the lunar lander.

The rover drove back to the lander, opened its huge belly, and the standard boxes filled with all kinds of dirt and stones were taken out by the mechanical arm, covered and stored, and then the rover returned to the moon, it will be left here, put into hibernation, and wake it up again when Qingquan Technology launches the next lunar probe!

And when Qingquan Technology really builds a large-scale base on the moon and mines minerals, it will be brought back to the earth and put it in a space museum or something like that, which is a small jade rabbit with historical significance, and a valuable record left by the Chinese people for the first time on the moon.

The "boom~" landing probe left a small jade rabbit with precious lunar soil and ore specimens slowly lifted into the air, because the gravitational pull of the moon is only 1/6 of that of the earth, and the speed of getting rid of the gravitational pull of the moon is much lower than the speed of getting rid of the earth, only 1.8 km/s can get rid of the gravitational pull of the moon, and it takes 7.9 km/s to get rid of the gravitational pull of the earth.

The landing probe slowly faced with the "Little Jade Rabbit" lunar exploration spacecraft, and then slowly dragged into the spacecraft, after being fixed, the spacecraft began to return, this time its mission has been completed, successfully obtained first-hand various lunar information, and also obtained a large number of lunar soil and rock specimens.

Six hours later, the lunar exploration spacecraft finally returned to the Qingquan space station, and the mechanical arm that had been prepared for a long time gently captured it, and the spacecraft opened automatically, and the standard boxes inside were taken out.

Soon, several "Dumbo" space shuttles flew back to Earth with a few boxes, and a few minutes later, the space shuttles landed on the ground control center of the future base, and the scientific researchers, who had been waiting for a long time, were studying and testing various data on the collected specimens.

By taking these soil and rock specimens from the moon, scientists can study and infer a lot of things, and based on the number of tungsten-182 isotopes in the rocks, they can determine the relatively accurate age of the rocks, so that the age of the moon can be estimated to be about 4.6 billion years.

This data is not only in line with the current commonly used theory of the formation of the moon, but also supports the theory of the formation time of the earth, which will help to study the history of the formation of the earth, according to the theory of the great collision, the moon and the earth formed at the same time, and the age of the moon is determined, and the age of the earth is expected to be calculated.

Of course, this is still very helpful for studying the history of the earth and the moon, but Qingquan Technology is now more concerned with the specific situation of lunar resources.

By analyzing the collected soil and rock samples, it is possible to know the content of each element and the way in which the elements are composed, so that it can be determined whether it has mining value and what kind of mining method should be used.

"How?" Liu Qingquan, who has returned to the ground, is also impatient to care about the collected specimens, and the amount of lunar resources is related to the implementation of the future space program.

"It is very rich, all the elements on the earth are available, and the distribution is very concentrated and easy to mine, many of the earth's scarce minerals, such as rare earths are very rich on the moon, and this rare metal will be worthless in the future!"

The scientist in charge of analyzing soil and rock samples handed Liu Qingquan a copy of the analysis data and said with emotion.

Liu Qingquan took the data report and looked at it carefully, the lunar specimens collected this time are actually very, very small compared to the huge mass and area of the moon, and the area where the rover collects specimens is very small, but even so, the collected specimens contain dozens of elements.

Among them, the content of iron that Liu Qingquan values the most is very high, and the iron content is as high as more than 80% of the stones collected from the basalt of the Moon Sea, which can basically be said to be the richest iron ore, which is better than the best iron ore on the earth!

Moreover, the composition of iron ore on the moon is mainly iron oxide, which is very conducive to refining, and only needs to separate iron and oxygen, which can not only obtain a large amount of steel, but also obtain rich oxygen, which is very helpful for the construction of large-mass spacecraft, space factories and space cities.

Liu Qingquan's face was overjoyed, and after reading the data one by one, he had to sigh that the moon was really a gift from God to the earthlings, Liu Qingquan, who is familiar with the development of cosmic civilization, there are few people in the universe like earthlings, there will be a satellite with such rich resources next to their home planet, and such an unusually rich satellite is too precious for a civilization that has just stepped out of the home planet and started cosmic exploration!

You must know that compared to the universe, the distance between the earth and the moon is too close, completely insignificant, not only to help the earth block meteorites and meteors from the universe, but also to be a treasure star, a precious planet rich in resources, a gift, a gift of the universe!

PS: Soon it will be over this dragging ground link, hit the sea of stars, ask for support~~ (to be continued.) )