Chapter 8 Landing

But even so, the violent solar wind caused amazing changes in the Jupiter system.

Aurora.

Jupiter also has aurora on a regular basis, but none have they ever been as large as they are now. Chen Yue saw that the aurora extending from the poles of Jupiter was like a whip of thunder, shaking violently in the vast sky, which was extremely spectacular.

Well?

The change in the Sun also seems to have triggered some changes about Jupiter. These changes do not seem to have been addressed by previous human science systems.

Sensing this, Chen Yue immediately separated some of the telescopes and probes that observed the sun, aimed at Jupiter, and absorbed the data hungrily as if he were for the sun.

Long before the impact occurred, Chen Yue had prepared the data storage space in advance. At this moment, a large amount of observation data came like a flood that broke the embankment, and quickly entered the hard disk.

Jupiter's magnetic field structure, internal structure, convection patterns, detailed structure of the Sun's interior, details of the Sun's atmosphere, sunspots and sunspots, coronal mass ejection models, star-planet interaction models......

There are too many valuable materials for subjects that were generated in such a short period of time, and then all of them were recorded by Chen Yue.

While trembling in front of the power of heaven and earth in the rampant nature of the sun, Chen Yue's heart blossomed with joy.

With so much valuable observational data, I can now easily get it. If human civilization still exists, those scientists will probably envy themselves to death.

They never have such an opportunity in their lifetime.

In the future, these valuable data will certainly contribute greatly to the development of their own scientific system.

Chen Yue observed for up to a month, collected data for a full month, and then reluctantly ended his observation of the Sun and Jupiter.

It's time for the next task.

It's time to land.

At this moment, the total mass of the Glowing spacecraft is about 600 tons. Based on Callisto's mass and gravity, the Glowing spacecraft weighed only about 3.66 tons when it landed on it. This is already within the tolerance range of the structural strength of the hull of the Glowing Spacecraft, and there is no need to consider being crushed by its own weight.

But landing is still not an easy task. Callisto's escape velocity is 58 meters per second, which means that if it falls straight down if left unchecked, it will eventually collide with Ganymede's hard surface at a speed of 58 meters per second, which is about 210 kilometers per second.

If you think back to driving on Earth, 120 km/h is enough to knock a car to pieces, let alone 210 km/h.

Or to slow down. Chen Yue hopes that the final ground speed is best controlled within 5 kilometers per hour, that is, within 1.4 meters per second.

The maximum should not exceed 1.6 meters per second. If it is exceeded, there is a risk of serious damage to the hull.

After multiple considerations and trade-offs, Chen Yue finally chose a more complicated landing route.

The Glowing Monster slows down first. Losing enough orbital speed, the ship slowly began to lower its orbit.

If left undisturbed at this moment, after about a few dozen laps around Callisto, the orbit would be lowered to the point of colliding with it.

But Chen Yue didn't do anything more, but let the spaceship get closer and closer to Ganymede.

It wasn't until after more than 20 laps that Chen Yue started the engine again and began to slow down for himself with all his might.

When its velocity drops to just a few meters per second, it sits right between Jupiter and Ganymede. Jupiter then partially cancels out the gravitational pull of Europa, making it even less.

At this time, the attitude adjustment engine of the Glowing spacecraft began to work, pushing the ship's hull up and erect. The main engine began to work again, using Jupiter's gravitational pull and its own thrust, causing the ship's hull to temporarily levitate at an altitude of about 50 meters above Callisto.

After the speed is canceled to zero, the main engine shuts down, and it begins its slow descent again.

Calliste's gravitational acceleration is 2 millimeters per square second, which means that for each second that passes, the speed at which the Glowworm will fall towards Ganymede increases by 2 millimeters. However, this is the side facing Jupiter, which is reduced to about 1.8 millimeters due to Jupiter's gravitational pull.

At this acceleration, it would take about 75 seconds for the Glowing spacecraft to fall from a height of 50 meters to the ground. At that time, the speed of contact with the ground will be about 1.35 meters per second.

This speed is within the safe speed category and is acceptable.

After it began to fall, Chen Yue seized the time to adjust the attitude of the Luminous spacecraft, and once again adjusted it from a vertical state to a lying flat state.

The Attitude Adjustment Engine works at full capacity, finally getting it into place at the last minute before it touches the ground.

In the next moment, the Glowing spacecraft, with a mass of more than 600 tons, "gently" smashed on the surface of Ganymede, and under the action of the previous lateral moving inertia force, it slid forward for a distance of about 100 meters before finally coming to a complete standstill.

During this whole process, Chen Yue's heart was raised high in his throat, and he was always in a state of tension.

This step is just too important. If something important is damaged in the process, or if there is something irreparable in the process, then the fun is great.

After the landing, Chen Yue did not dare to slack off, and immediately commanded Xiaobai to start "visually" inspecting the damage to the hull, and read the data of tens of thousands of sensors to confirm his own status.

The final result made Chen Yue breathe a sigh of relief.

Aside from the fact that the hull of the ship had been torn open in a collision with Calliste's surface rocks, nothing was damaged.

If there were still people alive in Callisto, the damage would be too severe, and it would basically be of the irreparable type.

Fortunately, at this moment, Chen Yue no longer needs a living environment.

The tension finally eased.

The hatch of the Glowing Confusion spacecraft opened, and the hull video probe poked out, Chen Yue could finally view the environment of the planet "with his own eyes" at an extremely close distance.

In the vastness of the sky, a bright star shines brightly. Next to the star, a huge planet with distinct stripes that almost occupies half of the sky is like an eye, staring at the dark red earth where it is.

The earth was full of craters, and there were traces of impact craters everywhere. There are mountains in the distance, and there is a big slope, and on the slope is some green and brown mixed things, I don't know what it is.

Eternal desolation, dead silence, cold to the bone.

Chen Yue knew that this was the place where he would stay for an unknown number of years in the future.

The environment here is indescribably harsh. But Chen Yue's mood was extremely excited.

"This will definitely be a new starting point for human civilization."

He thought so.