Chapter 100: The Moon, Roads, Minerals
He Xiao once tried to weave an atmosphere or ocean for the moon......
But the difficulty of billions of readers, and the impossibility of trust, discouraged him.
It's still too difficult to make up things that go against the rules of the real world.
If the system wants to deduce the atmosphere of the moon, I am afraid that it will have to change the laws of physics or change the mass of the moon, otherwise with the gravitational pull of the moon, it is not worthy of having an atmosphere at all, and the atmosphere will have escaped to the blue star or space long ago......
BUT THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE MOON IS ORIGINALLY AN UNUSUALLY LARGE MOON COMPARED TO THE PARENT STAR, AND IF THE MASS IS INCREASED, THE BLUE STAR WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HOLD, AND THE MASS OF THE BLUE STAR WILL HAVE TO BE INCREASED ...... The increase in the mass of the blue star will lead to a series of problems that need to be re-deduced......
It's the same with the ocean, without an atmosphere, water can't exist in a liquid state, and if you have to deduce it, it would be too much to change the moon.
The things that exist inside the Colin crater originally existed, and they also conform to the laws of physics, and they were not created by He Xiao using the entry, but they were discovered so smoothly because of the entry.
He first confirmed that there were indeed water ice resources here through the entry test, and then made up the water ice pass......
As for the rest, the discovery of the Colin crater has not yet been announced, and it is difficult to compile it.
Of course, if it is not enough in the later stage, he can modify the reserves through the entry......
For example, increasing the reserves of water ice or nitrogen ice by one or two orders of magnitude......
With the resources, how to transport them to the base is a problem, although the power of the Queen XIII is enough for its own operation, but it cannot carry much cargo, and this time it only brought back a few hundred kilograms of samples......
The main advantage of the decay nuclear battery is that it has strong endurance and stability, and can be used for 10-15 years, plus it automatically releases a lot of heat, but in fact, the power that can generate electricity is not high, the power of 2000W is much worse than the ordinary electric vehicles on the Blue Star, if it were not for the small gravitational pull of the moon and the small friction, the quality of the Queen 13 would not be able to act at all......
To this end, Hawke Island has sent Queen-18, Queen-19 and Queen-20 at one time, these three lunar rovers are hydrogen energy lunar rovers! Of course, it also comes with solar wings, so we still use solar energy as much as possible.
Due to the discovery of water ice on the moon, hydrogen energy vehicles in particular have become apparent, and they can use the hydrogen and oxygen resources produced by solar power generation to dissolve water as a driving power.
The biggest advantage of hydrogen energy is that it is environmentally friendly, the only compound produced by hydrogen and oxygen fuel is water vapor, which can be cooled and recycled into water, and at the same time, these water vapor can also provide heat for the lunar rover, avoiding the failure of some instruments due to ultra-low temperatures......
They have a body mass of about 5 tons and can reach 120 horsepower on the Blue Star! Cargo capacity up to 4 tons!
Due to the lower gravitational pull of the Moon, they will have a higher cargo load on the Moon, which can theoretically reach more than 20 tons......
However, because there are no roads on the moon, it is difficult to drive on lunar soil, so at this stage, their cargo capacity is only about 4 tons, which is about the same as that on the blue star......
And the driving speed is relatively slow.
There is no way, everything is difficult at the beginning, and the accumulation of resources at the beginning is the most difficult.
When more and more resources are added in the future, there will be a snowball effect, and at that time, the resources produced can be used to build various infrastructures, so that the efficiency of all aspects can be greatly improved.
Now they have no cement, no asphalt, and naturally they can't build real roads, but the eighteen, nineteen, and twenty-three lunar rovers all have excavator-like mechanical arms and large shovels, which can automatically level the road during driving.
So a "dirt road" appeared from the base of Hawk Island to the interior of the Colin crater!
With a total length of about 2,200 meters, this dirt road should be the first "road" on the moon!
Through this "road", three hydrogen energy lunar rovers under the remote control of astronauts, a steady stream of water ice and dry ice minerals to the Hawk Island base, but these minerals must be transported at night, and during the day, the temperature is too high, and they will sublimate and escape directly on the way......
Nitrogen ice can't even be transported at night, because its freezing point is minus 209 degrees, and only the permanent shadow area can reach this temperature......
If you want to mine nitrogen ice, you have to make a special mining machine, which is stored in a tank inside the permanent shadow zone, so that it does not sublimate and escape.
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At the same time, the Queen-13 and other earlier lunar rovers are also under the control of astronauts and Blue Star personnel, and continue to explore the Blue Star around the base, looking for various resources and minerals.
1.8 kilometers north of the base, a small basalt ilmenite was found, with a high taste, the main component ferrous titanate (FeTiO3) content of more than 20%, and the reserves are preliminarily estimated to be more than 800,000 tons......
This is actually not lucky, ilmenite on the moon is too common, titanium reserves are estimated to be more than 100 trillion tons, while the reserves of titanium ore on the blue star are estimated to be only about 2 billion tons......
The titanium on the moon is basically in the form of basalt ilmenite ferrous titanate (FeTiO3), so it is not unusual to find such a small ilmenite, in fact, they found far more ilmenite than this, but this one has the highest taste, the closest distance, the reserves are also OK, and it has a high mining value......
5.2 kilometers to the southwest, a plagioclase mine with reserves of about 1.5 million tons has been discovered, rich in potassium, rare earths and phosphorus, but it is not of much use for the time being.
2.5 kilometers to the southeast, an iron oxide ore was discovered, with reserves of about 1 million tons, but the taste is very different from the high-grade hematite of Hawk Island, only 22% of the iron content, which can only be regarded as poor iron ore on the Blue Star......
However, this is the moon, the taste of the mineral may not be so important, the cost of transportation is the key, this iron ore is close enough, so it may be more valuable than high-grade iron ore!
Of course, there is helium-3 in the lunar soil scattered everywhere, but the helium-3 distribution in the lunar soil is relatively scattered and the content is low, and with the facilities and technology of the current base, it does not have the mining capacity, and Bluestar has not developed a controllable nuclear fusion technology, and the extraction of helium-3 is not of great significance.
However, when the time and technology are mature, this may be the most important mineral on the moon, the content of helium-3 in the lunar soil is estimated to be 715,000 tons, and the energy produced by 100 tons of helium-3 fusion is enough for all Blue Star humans to use for a year, that is, these helium-3 are enough to make human beings worry about energy for thousands of years!
And for every ton of helium-3 extracted from lunar soil, 6,300 tons of hydrogen, 70 tons of nitrogen and 1,600 tons of carbon can be obtained.
These by-products will also be an important resource for the production and life of the base!
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