"What's the doubt?"

Chen Yi stood up, took the detection image in Qin Xiaoyu's hand, and looked at it carefully.

This is a CT-like image.

Under the joint exploration of 36 Mars probes.

The entire strata and core of Mars seem to be cut into countless parts, and all the mysteries can be seen at a glance in the image.

"It's."

Chen Yi looked at the Martian strata shown in all the images, and his brows furrowed suddenly.

"The stratigraphic structure of Mars, there's something wrong."

The structure of a planet is like an onion, with countless structures.

The innermost part is the core and core, then the mantle, and then the crust.

Among them, the earth's crust, due to the geological deposition caused by the movement of the planet, often also forms countless geological layers.

Although the core of Mars has cooled, there has been no strong geological activity for nearly a few billion years.

However, the geological layers formed 3 billion years ago, as well as the cooling mantle, the earth's core, etc., will still be preserved in their original structure.

The situation of these structures often contains the last information of Mars.

And now, in Chen Yi's eyes, there is a big problem with the stratigraphic structure of this Mars.

"Throughout Mount Olympus, the deep stratigraphic structure is completely uplifted."

"On the other side of the planet corresponding to Mount Olympus, the stratigraphic structure is in a state of punctate depression and collapse."

Chen Yi motioned to Xuannu to build all the images into a three-dimensional model, which was revealed on the projector next to her.

Now, the situation is clear.

The 21-kilometer-high Olympus, the highest peak of the solar system, was not formed naturally by the planet's crust at all, but by a huge impact.

A massive force of impact pierced the strata of Mars.

The huge energy even caused the surface of Mars on the other side to rise high, eventually forming this majestic Olympus, the highest peak in the solar system.

"Scientists analyzed that 3 billion years ago, Mars suffered an asteroid impact, which completely broke the structure of the planet and triggered volcanic eruptions around the world."

"Volcanic eruptions erupt and eject mantle and core materials that are rich in iron in the molten state."

"These materials have been oxidized for hundreds of millions of years to form the crimson surface that is now spread across the planet."

"At the same time, the loss of hot mantle material and core material also leads to the rapid cooling of the planet."

"Eventually, the core of Mars ceased to function, the planet's magnetic field disappeared, and the entire planet went into complete death."

"For such a result to occur, the mass and volume of the impact asteroid must be not small, but."

Chen Yi looked at the stratigraphic image of Mars.

In addition to the high uplift of Mount Olympus, there is another side corresponding to the deep depression and collapse of the formation.

The stratigraphic structure of the rest of the area is riddled with holes, and every wound and hole is the result of a volcanic eruption.

However, the structure of the strata remains largely intact and does not look at all like the signs left by an asteroid impact.

"If an asteroid hits and can create such a huge Mount Olympus on the other side of the planet, then the structure of the entire planet will be smashed to pieces, not to mention that it remains largely intact."

"It's more like a high-velocity object with a huge amount of energy to hit."

"Because the speed is too fast, the energy is concentrated, and the huge energy penetrates the entire planet without waiting for it to be completely dispersed, creating 21 kilometers on the other side of the planet, the highest Mount Olympus in the solar system."

Chen Yi began to analyze little by little.

The impact of an asteroid seems to be terrifying.

However, this energy is based on a huge mass base, and in fact, because of the low speed, the impact energy will only propagate as a whole, and will not penetrate in a dotted manner.

There is only the impact of a high-velocity object, because energy is built on velocity.

Because of the strong speed, the moment of impact, the energy will penetrate the object, forming a point-like penetration.

Image point metaphor.

An asteroid impact is like a hammer smashing, a hammer 50, a sledgehammer smashing down, and the planet is smashed.

Of course, because the mass of the planet is too large, the gravitational attraction to each other can reunite even if it becomes sparse.

And the other is a bullet hit, and with a bang, the bullet almost penetrates the planet.

The bullet hole on one side of the planet left only a dot-like depression, while on the other side, due to the diffusion of energy, formed a high bulge.

"Brother Yi, you said that Mount Olympus on Mars was formed by the impact of high-velocity objects."

"What kind of object can penetrate almost the entire planet and create such a towering mountain?"

Qin Xiaoyu, who was next to him, heard Chen Yi's analysis and asked with some curiosity.

"It is unlikely that such an object could have formed naturally."

Chen Yi thought for a while and said, "There are only three possibilities I can think of, have you seen the wandering earth?" ”

"I've seen it, the first part is Brother Yi, you took me to see it." Qin Xiaoyu nodded.

"The first one is an asteroid equipped with a planetary engine that accelerates to a terrifying speed and hits Mars."

"Because of the global volcanic eruptions, coupled with billions of years, the traces of the asteroid have been completely obscured."

"The second is the supernova eruption that vaporizes the surrounding planets, but the core of some planets was accelerated to a terrifying speed before it could be vaporized, and after countless years of flight, it happened to hit Mars at that time."

"The last possibility, and that's the mass bomb."

"Mass bomb?"

"Yes, objects the size of a fist or the size of a human head are accelerated to infinitely close to the speed of light, and the inertial mass is increased by hundreds of millions or even billions of times, and the mass bombardment is bombarded from space."

"Massive energy pierced the core of Mars, causing a global volcanic eruption and creating the towering Mount Olympus on the other side."

Chen Yi named the three possibilities he could think of.

After speaking, looking at the position of Mount Olympus in the northern latitude of Mars: "Of the three possibilities, I am more inclined to the analysis of mass bombs."

Because Mount Olympus and the corresponding depression on the other side are not the front of Mars.

If it is the first two, the impact of the asteroid, the whole of Mars will lie down like Uranus, and the axis of rotation will be tilted to an incredible angle.

Only a mass projectile infinitely close to the speed of light, because it is faster, and the energy penetrates the planet before it has time to disperse, will not have too much impact on the axis of rotation of Mars. ”

"Brother Yi, so to speak, there was a civilization before Mars? And a super civilization that went into space? Qin Xiaoyu suddenly grasped the key point, and felt incredibly asked.

Whether it is the possibility of an accelerated asteroid impact in the first or a mass bomb in the third.

These are not natural phenomena, but phenomena of scientific and technological civilization.

"It's possible."

"Theoretically, when the magnetic field of ancient Mars has not disappeared, it is very likely that life will be born, and then civilization will be born further."

"Moreover, Mars did not suffer a Theia impact event and evolved nearly a billion years longer than Earth."

"In this way, when life on Earth was born, it is likely that life had already appeared on Mars, and at the same time a powerful civilization was developed."

Chen Yi remembered the origin of the moon, the impact event of Theia.

This impact can be said to have directly pressed the restart button on the earth, which has evolved for hundreds of millions of years.

In this way, it is equivalent to Mars having 1 billion years less time to develop and evolve than Earth.

The evolution of life, the emergence of wisdom, and the birth of civilization are too fortuitous.

Dinosaurs developed for more than 100 million years without lighting up the fireworks of wisdom, and it only took millions of years for Homo sapiens to embark on a unique route of wisdom and establish a brilliant civilization.

No one is sure.

In such a distant time, will Mars be the first to give birth to civilization, go to space, and go to the stars.

In the end, because of the internal strife of civilization, or other external factors, it leads to war.

The mass bomb destroyed the core of Mars and detonated a global volcanic eruption, throwing material from the Earth's core and mantle out to create today's crimson Martian surface.

PS: The first chapter, there will be a delay

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