Chapter 85: A gas giant with a shattered core

In the vast vacuum, the snow particles in the sky reflect the starlight, like pearls floating in the universe.

In this silent and cold environment, the creation of the Om Messiah activated its plasma propulsion system and rose into the vast night sky.

The drone's plasma engine roared, spewing out a stream of blue flames, a wake made of high-speed ions, which drew a brilliant blue trajectory in the vacuum, and in the center of the fuselage, the drone's "eye" - a delicately designed circular sensor, between the coldness of the machine and the silence of the universe, suddenly lit up with a cold blue light.

Inside the sensor, strings of complex code began to flow rapidly, like a stream of data in a galaxy, constantly analyzing the surrounding environment.

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[Turin Type I supercomputing mode turned on——]

[Enter Planetary Observation Mode-]

==Environmental Detection Report Module==

Report Number: CAR-ENV-2123-0423

[Atmosphere & Climate Module]:

Temperature range: -180°C to -120°C

Atmospheric composition:

Oxygen content: 18% (periodic decrease in oxygen due to storm rings)

Nitrogen content: 79%

Other gases: 3% (contains trace amounts of inert gases and carbon dioxide)

Storm Conditions:

Wind speed: up to 50 meters per second (Megastorm Zone)

Storm frequency: almost persistent (except storm vacuum periods)

Humidity: Average relative humidity

[Surface & Ocean Module]:

Ice Sheet Situation:

Coverage: More than 90% of the land surface is covered with snow and ice

Ice thickness: 200 meters on average

State of the Sea:

Sea temperature: not measured (most of the ocean is frozen in)

Subglacial seawater: potentially high salinity

Crustal tectonics: Locally unstable.

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Puff~

As the carrying speed of the drone increases, it begins to enter overheating mode.

The surface of the fuselage, which had been used to hide from the night, was now scorching, as if it had been baked by the stars, giving off the smell of being burned by the heat.

Soon, the drone couldn't stand it.

It fell to the ground like a weightless comet, and with a "peng" sound, the drone slammed into the thick ice, and then his surroundings began to flash a rapid azure data block, accompanied by a popping sound, and the drone completely disappeared in this ice and snow world.

During the scanning process, the unstable magnetic field generated by the planet directly detonated the drone in overload mode.

On the other side, Xia Xiu, who was on the ship, had already finished reading the surface data analyzed by [Adam] at this time.

"The environment on this planet is disgusting, and I know for sure that this is definitely not a hotbed of life." The blonde youth couldn't help but sigh.

As Xia Xiu spoke, the hot breath exhaled from his mouth and nose condensed into wisps of white mist in the cold environment, like a gentle cloud of smoke, slowly rising, and then quietly dissipating in the cold air.

In order to meet the occasion, he also specially projected a set of winter clothes from [private customization] and draped it on his body, and specially put on a thick white winter hat on his head.

[The planet's galactic environment has undergone a crisis sequence-level physical apocalyptic scenario, and based on the orbital dynamics data and magnetic field changes detected by the drone, as well as the supercomputing detection of [Turin Type I], it can be concluded that the nebula structure above is from a devastating planetary catastrophe-]

[With a perfect prosthetic eye, you should be able to quickly perceive the nature of the nebula above—]

"Whew~"

Listening to [Adam's] report, Xia Xiu stretched out his hands and blew a breath of hot air, his golden eyes carefully looking at the colorful nebula above.

As a graduate of the Deer Academy, a high-level angel in the kingdom of heaven, through the many physical data transmitted by the drone just now, he doesn't need [Adam] to say anything, he also knows what the nebula above is made of.

"The gaseous giants initially form unique nebulae with gas that affect the spectral properties observable in the night sky, and the movement of gas clouds in space and the action of light create variable patterns and structures."

At this moment, Xia Xiu's eyes had become pure white as snow, and through the [Perfect Prosthetic Eye], he didn't soon see through the colorful nebula and observed the gas giant planet above that was so close to the ice and snow world.

It is now taking on a twisted and deformed shape, it is not spherical in the traditional sense, but a strange structure with a concave and irregular bulge, as if it has been violently pumped by something and has undergone an irreversible deformation.

"Although the gravity here is the same as Terra, there is a high probability that this one is not its most primitive appearance."

As Xia Xiu spoke, he stretched out his right hand and shook it towards the void, and at the same time as he held it, the figure of [Sisyphus] floated out of him.

"Everything, Vector Authoritarian—"

Through authority, the fourth sword-bearer of the heavenly kingdom quickly grabbed a part of the mass, and a powerful gravitational field began to build,

A strong gravitational field can bend light from the stars behind it, causing a lensing effect.

Observing the gravitational lensing effect can reveal the mass distribution of foreground objects.

"Adam, import the test module." Xia Xiu ordered.

[Okay.] ]

[Gravitational field measurement begins:

Gravitational field mapping and importing

Gravitational wave measurement and introduction

Tidal force analysis and introduction

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By accurately measuring the orbit deviation of the satellite, the gravitational field distribution of the planet can be measured. These data can show unevenness in the mass distribution, such as gravity anomalies due to heterogeneity in the internal structure.

Any event with extreme mass changes, such as a celestial collision or core breaking, can produce gravitational waves. By detecting these fluctuations, [Adam] can deduce the characteristics of the events that produce them.

As for the tidal force, it goes without saying, as a force that arises from the uneven action of gravity, its most obvious manifestation is the tidal phenomenon on Terra.

This force is caused by the difference in distance between different parts of Terra and the Moon or other celestial bodies.

Since gravity is a function of distance, the closer the place is, the stronger the gravitational force is experienced, which causes the part of Terra that is close to the moon (or the sun) to experience a greater gravitational pull than the part that is farther away.

The Moon's gravitational effect on the water column of Terra causes periodic rises and falls on the surface of the ocean, creating a tidal phenomenon observed by humans.

Basically, each location in Terra experiences two highs and two lows approximately every 24 hours.

Tidal forces also cause celestial bodies to undergo distortions and deformations, and the dynamic response of these distortions and deformations ultimately affects the rotational state of the celestial bodies and the orientation of the axes, i.e., precession and nutation.

Precession is a change in the orbit of a celestial body's axis of rotation, and its effect is such that the axis depicts a conical path in space.

The precession (or precession) of Terra is mainly caused by the uneven tidal forces of the Sun and Moon on their equatorial protrusions, which cause a continuous torque on the celestial body, causing the direction of its axis of rotation to slowly change; Nutation is the oscillation of the axis of rotation of a celestial body, similar to the small circular motion made by the axis of a rotating spinning top.

Tidal locking, on the other hand, is one of the most important manifestations of tidal forces, a common astrophysical phenomenon in which the rotation period of a smaller object (such as the Moon) matches its orbital period around a larger object (such as Terra).

So the natural result is that the smaller bodies always face the same face towards the larger body, just as the Moon always shows the same face to Terra.

Long-term tidal action redistributes energy and angular momentum between celestial bodies.

For example, the Moon's tidal effect on Terra also causes changes in its own orbit.

Specifically, the Moon is gradually moving away from Terra, about 3.8 centimeters per year, and if the time scale is extended to the length of the planet, sooner or later the Moon will "divorce and separate" from Terra.

This phenomenon has been confirmed by the Laser Lunar Ranging Experiment, which measures the round-trip time of a laser pulse emitted from Terra to a reflector on the Moon.

However, this is not a major concern for humans, and when Terra and the moon divorced, humans did not know if they were still there.

Moreover, according to the current version of Terra's environment, the Terrans are estimated to be able to perform a fixed-point blast before the two balls divorce, and release brilliant fireworks in the universe with the sun.

[Measurement completed, data import started——]

The huge amount of data began to come from Xia Xiu's intracranial calculations, relying on the powerful computing power of [Turin Type I], he can now stand up to a super-cutting-edge complex technology team by himself.

"There is indeed an anomaly in the precession and nutation, and it can be basically inferred that this planet is a terrestrial planet, with a smaller mass than Terra, but the gravity is as heavy as Terra's; This has a lot to do with the gas giant above, and there is also a gravitational relationship between this planet and the gas giant, just like Terra and the moon, but the gravitational pull of this gas giant on the local planet will be much greater than the gravitational pull of the local gas giant, that is, the planet here is the moon of the gas giant above. ”

"Just like the moon revolves around Terra, the planet originally revolved around the gas giant above, and now the measured tidal force, precession and nutation, and orbital operation of the planet, the total angular momentum of the planetary system should not have been like this at first, it was the gas giant above that had an accident, which caused the angular momentum distribution of the entire system to be affected."

Xia Xiu dissipated the authority in his hand, then stretched out his hand and rubbed his chin and began to think.

If the gas giant is the host star of the planet, then the total angular momentum of the system they form should be conserved, that is, the orbit, tide-locking, precession, and nutation are all normal.

But now the planet's physical systems seem to have been ravaged.

The colorful nebulae over this icy world were already hanging over the entire planet, and he knew what the nebulae above were the substance, which were the interstellar material (dust and gas) of the gas giants, in other words, the "vomit" of the planet.

Generally, if a planet spits out mass on a large scale, it means that it has exploded.

Yes, it's just the inner core of a gas giant several times smaller than Jupiter that exploded.

The shattering of the inner core of a gas giant is different from the explosion of the entire planet, but it is indeed a serious internal change, and if the core is "broken", it will change the way the planet emits and reflects light, which can lead to changes in its brightness and visible characteristics.

The real misfortune is the nearby moon, where the gas giant's inner core is shattered, so that the angular momentum it previously had (rotation around its own axis and possible revolution around the central star) will be dispersed into all the debris in the process.

If these fragments are scattered in different directions, they will each carry a portion of the angular momentum of the original core.

When the core of the gas giant is broken and the debris scatters in all directions, the angular momentum distribution of the entire system will also have an effect, especially if there is a loss of mass outside the system.

In this case, according to the law of conservation of angular momentum, the orbital velocity and distance of the planet must change due to the kernel fragmentation event, in order to maintain the conservation of the angular momentum of the system.

Generally speaking, that is, husband and wife are birds of the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes.

The main star blew up, but it didn't blow up completely, but it spit out a lot of its own mass.

Then there will be a lack of mass to maintain the original orbit, so they start throwing each other off.

As for who dumped whom, then the benevolent will see the benevolent and the wise will see the wise.

After all, the two balls could only be forced to separate due to material reasons, and it was quite difficult for them to live separately after separation.

The ice and snow world was directly thrown into a new orbit, and due to the fragmentation of the gas giant's inner core, a large amount of material was ejected near the ice and snow world, and the ice and snow world was forced into a new orbit, itself was placed in a position far away from the star, entering an extreme elliptical orbit.

The farther orbit has led to a significant reduction in the planet's surface temperature, creating a global climate catastrophe similar to the "nuclear winter" effect.

Moreover, its main star vomited a lot of things on it before the divorce, which were directly pasted on its face, and a large amount of interstellar matter wrapped around the ice and snow world, resulting in the absorption, scattering or reflection of stellar light, making the ice and snow world, which was already less light, even more desperate.

They have visually shielded the stars, creating a condition similar to "eternal night".

"If it weren't for the precursor to the Land of the Sea of Fog, I can believe that this series of things was a coincidence, but now in this situation...

The ones who can play with a planet are familiar to him, except for the unhappy one who eats everything, the unspeakable ones from the stars.

and,Experiments related to the crisis sequence series of the multi-power alliance over there (Terra).。

The more Xia Xiu thought about it, the more he felt that the possibility of his idea was very high.

During his time working in Terra, he had only one evaluation of the countries of Terra: a ball of shit together, scattered with their own wonderful.

If you put aside the shackles of [Crystal Sky], the stars, the four monarchs and the living gods, Alayya, and so on, the kingdoms of Terra actually have the ability to colonize the stars.

Now the situation of Terra is: the Heavenly Pole, Addis, Daevite, Oretin, Youyang Alliance and other countries are more powerful.

In the midst of a multi-pole situation, Terra has been planted with a large number of [Reality Anchors] and [World Parameter Stabilization Devices].

Even the moon has enjoyed the same treatment, and it has been plugged into a number of devices.

Terra's world parameters have long since been turned into a strange planet under the influence of many powerful players, and some knowledge of modern physics has been manipulated into the backyard pose of thaumaturgical physics.

And the multi-strong alliance always likes to spend work beyond the safety threshold on the hour, what stars cooperate to lead the way party, mechanical ascension cyber stream, Terra did not save the runaway party, the four monarchs are good, Crimson love and a series of anti-heaven operations.

really responded to that sentence, God does not give birth to me Terra, Terra is as ancient as a long night.

Woo woo woo ~ , stomach pain, but also code words, woo woo woo ~

(End of chapter)