Chapter 493: Mars

Shu Hongsleeve didn't say nonsense, she looked calm, first closed her eyes and thought for a while, and then the Taiyi Qing Spirit Fairy Light swayed out, outlining a huge magic circle pattern on the ground.

This pattern is so large that it is a thousand zhang square.

This is the power of the powerhouse of the Flying Wonderland.

The Book of Clouds in Du Lengqiu's hand emitted bursts of fluctuations, quietly adjusting the immortal light attribute outside Du Lengqiu's body. In an instant, the white-gold demon slaying immortal light turned into a cyan Taiyi green spirit immortal light.

At this time, a majestic beast cruised from the bottom of the sea. There was no need for Du Lengqiu to make a move, Butterfly Dance flicked his fingers, and a little fluorescence broke through the water flow, hitting this strange beast.

Although that little fluorescence was only the size of a soybean, it made an eighty-meter-tall beast fall asleep in an instant.

Du Lengqiu raised his thumb and praised it, then broke through the sea water and went straight to space.

Leaving the blue star, he turned his eyes in the universe and saw several planets in the solar system.

The closest is undoubtedly the moon, but the moon is Du Lengqiu's home. Naturally, it was left out, and then there was Mars.

Speaking of Mars, many Blue Star people are not familiar with it. They are familiar with the image of the Martian in the movie. In fact, Mars is a very mysterious planet.

Many people believe that life once existed on this planet.

Mars is the fourth planet in the solar system from the inside to the outside, belonging to terrestrial planets, with a diameter of about half the diameter of a blue star, and it takes twice as long to rotate around the axis of rotation and rotation period as close to each other.

In the West, it is called the Mars Star, the god of war, and in China, it is called the Luminous Star, because it is like fire, and its position and brightness often change. Its orange-red appearance is due to the fact that the surface of the ground is covered with hematite.

Mars is basically a desert planet, with sand dunes and gravel all over the surface, no stable liquid water body, and an atmosphere dominated by carbon dioxide is thin and cold, with sand and dust suspended in it, and dust storms often occur every year.

Compared to Blue Star, the geology is less active, and another unique topographic feature is the stark difference between the northern and southern hemispheres: the south is an ancient, crater-filled highland, and the north is a younger plain. Both of Mars' poles have a polar crown composed mainly of water and ice, and the dry ice on top of it grows and wanes with the seasons.

Du Lengqiu stopped talking nonsense, controlled the Taiyi Qingling Immortal Light, and went straight to Mars.

How far is Mars from Blue Star?

The Moon is about 380,000 kilometers away, while Mars is more than 100 times as far as the Moon, and even when it is closest to Blue Star, it is more than 50 million kilometers.

Du Lengqiu's speed at controlling the immortal light was already outstanding. But for such a long distance, it still took him nearly fourteen or fifteen hours to arrive.

Looking at Mars from afar, you can clearly see that this planet, which is only half the size of the blue star, has two moons. They are simply and crudely named, and are called Phobos and Deimos, respectively.

Phobos is in the shape of a potato, orbiting Mars three times a day, and the average distance from Mars is about 9,000 kilometers. It is the larger of the two moons of Mars and the closest to Mars. The distance between Phobos and Mars is also the shortest of all the moons in the solar system from their host star, only 6,000 kilometers from the surface of Mars.

It is one of the smallest moons in the solar system and one of the least reflective objects in the solar system. There is a huge impact crater on Phobos, called the Stickney Crater, and due to the close proximity of the orbit to Mars, Phobos rotates faster than Mars' rotation. Thus, as seen from the surface of Mars, Phobos rises in the west, streaks across the sky in four hours or less and sets in the east.

Deimos is the smallest moon of Mars, in fact it is very small, with an average radius of six kilometers. Phobos is at a distance of 23,460 kilometers from Mars, orbiting Mars in a 30.3-hour period and orbiting at a speed of 1.35 kilometers per second.

Du Lengqiu crossed the moon and entered the orbit of Mars. Not so long ago, Mars was red, which is why it was named Mars.

But now, Mars has changed color. Du Lengqiu's face became extremely strange, and he sighed slightly, "When there is an avalanche, no one is immune. ”

He crossed the thin atmosphere and landed on the surface.

Mars' atmosphere is only 1% dense than that of blue star, very dry, with low temperatures, an average surface temperature of minus 55°C, and water and carbon dioxide that freeze easily.

At this time, it is time for the setting sun.

Looking into the distance, the light blue sunset spreads in the sky, and the sky and the earth reflect beautifully. A long time ago, Du Lengqiu heard that the sunset and sunset of Mars were blue.

Now that I see it, it really lives up to its name.

It is said that this is because the Martian atmosphere is thin and the dust particles are large and large, and the main thing is Mill scattering, which scatters red light with the same wavelength as its own particles, and the red part of the sunlight is scattered in the direction of the line of sight, so the sunset will be blue.

However, this is nothing.

The most important thing is on the ground.

Once upon a time, Mars, like Blue Star, had a variety of terrains, with mountains, plains, and canyons, and Mars was basically a desert planet, with sand dunes and gravel all over the surface.

Due to factors such as less gravity, the terrain size is also different compared to the Earth. The topography of the northern and southern hemispheres is striking: the north is a lowland filled with lava, and the south is an ancient highland full of craters, separated by a clear slope.

Volcanic terrain is interspersed, canyons are dotted around, the North and South Poles have a polar crown of dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) and water ice, and wind-formed sand dunes spread across the planet.

Du Lengqiu was standing on a mountain at this time.

The mountain is extremely high, much higher than the Himalayas, but there is not a single snow here.

This is Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in the solar system, at 27,000 kilometers high. Looking around, the other four ring-shaped mountains, although not as good as those at the foot of Du Lengqiu, are far beyond Mount Everest.

The four craters are called Eskrells, Paphnes, Alsya and Attarian. The bare peaks, completely different from the verdant mountains of the earth, have nothing to see at all. But the same thing is that at the foot of the mountain, there is an endless ocean.

That's right, Mars has also suffered from the spread of the waters.

Once, a scientist from the beautiful country, based on satellite images, claimed to prove that billions of years ago most of the surface of Mars was once covered by a vast ocean.

The discovery was also published in the journal Geophysical Sinica. It caused quite a stir at the time.

His evidence comes from images taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), a powerful spacecraft orbiting Mars. Based on these images, they identified a huge alluvial delta in which the river is located eventually empties into a giant ocean that covers an area of almost 13 Mars' surfaces.

But now, Du Lengqiu can clearly state that there is indeed an ocean on Mars, and it has covered almost the entire Mars. In addition to the high mountains and some plateaus.

Mars has become a "water" planet.

That's why, Du Lengqiu looked at Mars in space, with a strange face. The once fiery planet has now turned blue entirely.

The vicissitudes of life are nothing more than that.