"73 degrees east longitude, 69 degrees south latitude, and a radius of 40 kilometers."

Seryov called up the high-definition color picture of Mars released by NACA, and quickly found the location, and put it to the maximum for observation.

It's close to the South Pole ice sheet of Mars, but it's still a little far away, and you can't see anything on the map.

Of course, this is also expected, if the satellite can find the anomaly at will, then it has been discovered here a long time ago, and it is not the turn of the system to remind at all.

With a radius of 40 kilometers, that is, an area of almost 5,000 square kilometers, which is about the size of a medium-sized city, this is not a small place.

Selyov stared at it for a while, then said to himself:

"Unnatural phenomena, unnatural phenomena, there is a word for that."

"What's the statement? Unnatural should not be caused by human factors...... Or is it caused by sapient beings? ”

Lin Ju was a little puzzled, it was unnatural, and it should only be used to describe the intelligent body.

Seryov shook his head: "Unnatural, in modern physics can also describe the process of transformation into quantum condensed matter in the process of quantization."

This also includes the interference of intelligent beings, but it is not the only possibility. ”

Lin Ju: "......"

As soon as he got to the quantum, Lin Ju's expression began to be confused, although he understood every word and didn't have any language problems, but he just couldn't understand any effective information.

Seryov stood up from a diagonal position, spun around his desk with his hands behind his back, frowning in thought, and after a long pause to refocus on the marked point on the screen.

"We're definitely going to go here, and we've got to bring people there, the machines are unreliable, and the astronauts have to find out.

But what is an unnatural phenomenon, and how to study it requires a professional team, isn't there a legendary A+ scientist, let him come over as soon as possible, multiple people are easy to do, maybe his major is more appropriate. ”

Lin Ju nodded, the A+-level character card has already been used, and it is estimated that he is on his way to come, this time there is no 15-day time reminder, maybe it will be faster?

Serov: "There are no named places near the coordinates provided by the system, but there is a small plain, which is called ...... Plain Zero, there has never been a special phenomenon before, so there shouldn't be any changes right away, we have plenty of time to explore, and we don't have to go to the bottom of it now.

We'll be launching the Flame Detector this month, so we can keep an eye on it, but it shouldn't be very rewarding. ”

Lin Ju: "I suddenly feel like I'm on a human mission now. ”

It's a bit of a middle school, but it's hard not to resist looking into what Mars clearly tells you there, even if it can have unpredictable consequences.

The existence of Plains Zero can't be said yet, you have to try to find out without attracting attention, why is there always a taste of science fiction movies where everyone in the world is drunk and I am sober?

But Lin Ju would rather not be a savior, if there is really an alien invasion, then he will play a big deal.

Rather than building a space battleship with no concept to fight aliens to the death, he would rather bring a piece of ice from the south pole of Mars to make tea.

But Seryov clearly had a different idea, the search for aliens was a hot topic in his time, and he knew a lot of the inside story at his level.

"From the very beginning, we have shouldered the mission of mankind, astronautics is like this, but it was Mars first, I thought it would be Venus, I went to urge Xiao Okada, the thruster from the fire should have completed the ground test."

Well, the Lihuo probe was not launched in the window period of 2018, but in January 2017, when the state of the Earth-Sun-Mars three-point line had just passed, which was the farthest time, and it took twenty months for traditional astronautical technology to fly, close to two years.

However, the thruster prepared for the fire is equipped with a nuclear reactor and a 50N ultra-high-thrust Hall thruster, which can be activated during the whole process of leaving the fire to Mars, only the acceleration and deceleration process without taxiing process, and it takes 292 days to arrive, about 10 months.

In other words, it will be launched in mid-January and will arrive in November 2017.

On the contrary, if the May 2018 window is used with conventional power, without the fission-Hall propulsion section, it will have to arrive in November or December 2018 at the earliest.

Of course, there is a price to get out of the fire so quickly, the mass of the fire detector itself is 10 tons, and the nuclear reactor power carried is 40KW, and the propulsion part is also 10 tons, and the reactor power is 90KW.

The power of the 50N Hall thruster reaches 127KW, which means that the two reactors must be combined together to supply energy, and the 20-ton combination, the reactor and the heat dissipation part account for nearly half of the mass.

However, the 50N Hall thruster is enough to save energy, as a system mall product, it saves 80% of the power per 1N compared to the current Hall thruster in the world, and there is a huge difference in principle design, which is not the same at all.

The 10-ton thruster, the Hall thruster part is relatively cheap without R&D costs, and the power stack also has technical reserves but needs to be included in R&D costs, and the overall cost is 1 billion yuan, which is not available.

Although the power drops to 90KW, it is faster because the weight is reduced by half, and the window period for hitting the earth fire can return to the earth in about 3 months, which is quite fast.

At that time, it was almost February 2018, and it was possible to load other probes and fly to other places, which was very fast.

However, the specific flight time of the fire is confidential, and the Aviation Development Commission does not know that Xinyuan has an outrageous Hall thruster with a thrust of 50N, and the public statement is that it will fly for 20 months from the fire and is expected to arrive in October 2018.

This is 11 months later than the actual arrival time, and Lihuo can carefully study Mars under unknown conditions, using the various exploration equipment it carries to carry out all-round exploration.

This plan was originally intended to carry out the planetary exploration plan as soon as possible, and deliberately divided the nuclear power propulsion part into a separate budget, but it was crooked.

Now that the fire detector has been manufactured, half of the three-month manufacturing cycle is urging domestic optical instrument manufacturers, and the speed of their production of qualified ultra-large ultra-clean lenses is too slow, if it is not for Xinyuan's "international technical support" guidance, it will have to be delayed for another month.

The imminent launch of the fire detector made Lin Ju feel a little more at ease, and what Seryov said also made sense, it was unlikely that there would be a problem on the Zero Plain immediately.

And just when the two of them then summoned the senior engineers in the base to start the formation of the "Zero Plains Response Team", in an intensive care ward in Rongcheng, Ye Changsi, whose head was covered with bandages, woke up.

The device detected changes in his body and issued a warning, and doctors and nurses rushed over to check his physical condition.

(End of chapter)