Chapter Seventy-Two: Heart-Stopping Photos!

When Zhou Chen learned the news of the capture of the Juno, it was already the third day after the incident. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"Commander, three days ago 'Wang Fatty' captured a probe from Earth, which may have caused riots in the internal departments of some countries on Earth at the moment. "Dandan's 1510 underground report.

"What detector?" Zhou Chen was flipping through the report on the "memory module" submitted by Ye Yanzhe, and couldn't help frowning after hearing Dandan's report.

"Juno probe launched by the United States." Dan Dan answered truthfully.

"'Wang Fatty' actually captured it!"

Zhou Chen showed a surprised expression on his face, he didn't expect such a thing to happen, the "Wang Fat Man", who was responsible for cleaning up potential foreign asteroid impacts around Jupiter, actually captured the human probe "Juno" sent to Jupiter, and caused Juno to lose contact with the Earth for three days.

His first reaction was to make amends and resolve this oolong as soon as possible.

After all, Juno has only been missing for three days, and even if it reappears around Jupiter, people will probably only think that the previous loss of contact was due to signal interference. This is a very normal way of thinking, but it is not normal for someone to say that the Juno has been "kidnapped".

Zhou Chen knew that it would be a good choice to send Juno back to Jupiter and then act as if nothing had happened. At the same time, he knew that he could stand still and ignore any news about the Juno.

Objectively speaking, mankind's current understanding of the universe is only scratching the surface, and it is really not a great deal that a probe sent to space has lost contact. It is nothing more than a show that human technology is not yet at home, and no one has calculated any possible situation, and no one will associate conspiracy theories with this ordinary thing, let alone doubt that there is a force in the universe that has reached the solar system.

Whether Zhou Chen releases the Juno or not, people on Earth will think that this is a normal phenomenon.

This is too operational for Zhou Chen, and he also likes this kind of unburdened option the most, he only needs to consider which situation is most beneficial to him.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Chen instructed Dandan: "Immediately calculate the original orbit of the Juno and put it back where it should appear." ”

"Obey the command, commander!"

The shadow cast by Dan Dan saluted Zhou Chen solemnly, and immediately replied: "According to calculations, the position where Juno should have been at this time is the node position of the second and third weeks of Jupiter's scientific observation orbit, will it be released?" ”

"Execute it now!"

Zhou Chen said without any hesitation, although the release of the Juno posed a certain threat to the concealment of the Earth Fleet. But Zhou Chen didn't mind, in fact, to some extent, this was what he expected.

As the station became more and more perfect, he had enough confidence to swear his existence, and this should be the first time that he transmitted some kind of signal to Earth with a hint of haze, and whether the scientists on Earth could receive it was no longer in his consideration.

At this time, NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Deputy Director Kozmo's office was surrounded by a puff of smoke, and he saw Kozmo holding a cigarette in his left hand, and in the smoke that rose, his brows were tightly locked, and he looked at the accident investigation report submitted by his subordinates with a constipated face.

This is a report written by Dr. Elvis, the site director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which details what happened at the site and analyzes the possible failure of the Juno.

Kozmo was reluctant to admit what the report said, but at this point, something so important was beyond his grasp. Ever since the day of the Juno accident, Kozmo has been in a terrible mood, because of the damn Juno incident, he is very embarrassed inside NASA, and wherever he goes, he can feel that the employees are looking at him with strange eyes.

Who made him just tout the Juno project in front of the Secretary of State and the accompanying reporters, and in the blink of an eye, something happened to slap him in the face?

"That's a big joke!"

When Kozmo saw the report mentioning that Juno might have lost its orbit change ability and was expected to eventually fall into Jupiter's atmosphere due to Jupiter's gravity, Kozmo had in mind an "gold nugget" worth $1.1 billion.

Three days have passed since his last briefing to the secretary of state, and those three days have been the longest buffer period he can obtain.

"It's time to announce the loss of contact with Juno......," Kozmo sighed softly, having no choice but to make a decision, he could imagine NASA being questioned by reporters at that time, it would be an absolutely painful thing, and he would undoubtedly have to bear some responsibility for it.

Just then, the phone on the desk rang, and it was Dr. Elvis himself.

"What, the Juno is in contact again?" The news on the other end of the phone made Kozmo directly stunned, his surprised expression quickly turned to ecstasy, after getting the news of the Juno again, he couldn't believe that God had played such a joke on him.

"It's heart-stopping news...... Kozmo said, and his mood suddenly brightened.

Unlike Kozmo's good mood, the atmosphere in the monitoring hall of the Marshall Space Flight Center was solemn.

Scientists at the site are measuring Juno's orbit to check whether it has deviated from its intended orbit.

A few minutes later, the results came in, "Juno is 150 m/s faster than expected, and we must put the brakes on it immediately, otherwise Juno will be out of orbit for scientific observation." ”

Dr. Elvis was relieved to get the results, and compared to the 2000m/s limit change budget that could be provided in the setting, it was still acceptable to be 150m/s faster.

"Immediately transmit the orbit change order, so that Juno can return to normal orbit as soon as possible."

Soon the ground control platform transmitted the corrected data, and after forty minutes, Juno began to change orbit and returned to its intended scientific orbit during several subsequent fine-tuning sessions.

"Look, Dr. Elvis, this is the picture that the Juno just passed back......"

A staff member trotted up to Dr. Elvis and handed over a few photos he had just received.

Dr. Elvis took the photographs, the first of which was the scientific data from Juno, which had just entered the orbit around the pole, and the infrared and microwave detectors on board Juno had generated a radiation map of Jupiter, through which the abundance and distribution of water on Jupiter could be analyzed.

But the next pictures made Dr. Elvis stunned.

"Oh God, it's not true!!"

Dr. Elvis looked extremely shocked and trembled slightly uncontrollably as he held the picture in his hands.

Look at what he saw in the photo, a huge spherical flying machine appeared on the sunny side, through the illumination of the sun, you can clearly see its outline and flight attitude from the photo, just like the clown in the acrobatic troupe, it is an existence that people absolutely cannot ignore!

Dr. Elvis's years of research and international collaboration have given him ample access to information that he can be sure that it could never be a craft from Earth, which no other country in the world has ever launched.

Then the message contained in the photo speaks for itself!

"Aliens, this is definitely an alien masterpiece!" Dr. Elvis was surrounded by excitement and fear at the same time, and at this moment he lost his former peace, and his mouth was repeated: "God, aliens are really coming to the solar system!" We've uncovered a corner of the curtain on the unknown universe, but who knows what it will bring us, oh my God, what the hell have we done! ”

When the aliens really arrived, the fear of the unknown was infinitely magnified.

At this time, Dr. Elvis was extremely annoyed, he hated the fact that humanity had been constantly sending its coordinates into the universe in search of aliens, which was definitely the stupidest thing to do with the entire civilization at stake!

"Lawn, prepare all the materials immediately, let's go to NASA headquarters immediately, God, this time something really is going to happen!"

Calling out to the assistant beside him, Dr. Elvis didn't explain too much, he immediately picked up his coat and walked forward quickly, while draping it on his body, after walking a few steps, he suddenly stopped again, turned his head to the person in charge of the Marshall Space Flight Center on duty and said, "The current situation is very urgent, I believe Your Excellency should know what to do, right?" ”

The person in charge nodded, and after Dr. Elvis and his assistant left, the entire Marshall Space Flight Center immediately entered a wartime state of emergency, and all personnel were only allowed to enter and exit, and private communication with the outside world was cut off at the first time.