Class B base.

It's three o'clock in the morning on July 20, and Xiao Okada has stayed up late from night to now, and he is tired of sitting on a chair to take a nap.

Although the rest of the staff are also on duty, they are also in a more relaxed state, and their dedication is not even as good as that of the security guards in the guard room.

"Thank you."

After taking the coffee with sugar and milk, Shen Zuozhou glanced at the people who were not in much of a state, and his face couldn't help twitching.

In the evening, the two Venus probes "Taibai" and "Qixing-1" sent back signals of imminent arrival, and then the deep space exploration team waited here for the probes to enter orbit and send photos, and waited for seven or eight hours before they were in orbit.

He asked Xiao Okada if there was something wrong, and the latter just waved his hand indifferently to express his belief in AI, the two Venus probes were equipped with the most advanced ternary chips, and the power system did not find any abnormalities, so it would definitely be fine.

But Shen Zuozhou is not so nervous, this is the first domestic exploration project of extraterrestrial planets, and it is Venus with a lot of issues, and the Aviation Development Commission has been waiting for news!

But now the base really can't do anything, human beings know much less about Venus than Mars, especially in China, which is almost 0, and you still have to trust the professional team.

Shen Zuozhou focused his attention on the No. 2 robot standing quietly in the corner, feeling that it was too radical in artificial intelligence.

For example, the No. 2 robot has produced more than 20 units in succession to try to replace the service industry inside the base, and in the past few months, except for the canteen because the employees require "soul" so that the chef is still insisting, the rest of the cleaning and life services are basically monopolized by robots.

At the beginning, the robot was just a fun, and the skin and head model were still customized by domestic adult manufacturers, but then the base began to develop related technologies by itself, so the robot became more and more human-like in appearance, and finally the skin was almost the same as a real person, plus AI training became more and more skilled, and it was almost unrecognizable to ordinary people in terms of posture and appearance.

Moreover, these robots are also individually customized, with different heights and body types, and long-term contact really feels like a crisis of intelligence.

Not to mention the production process, the equipment in the base is still being automated, and basically everything that needs to be done here can be controlled by supercomputing, and the production efficiency will continue to be greatly improved without hardware innovation.

Although the Jingu rocket manufacturing base that came to study did not dare to be so radical, it also began to test run AI logistics warehousing and production plan management, and it is said that after internal testing, it was found that the local efficiency could be increased by 500%, and the overall efficiency was more than 40%, which was particularly terrifying.

There is a lot of thought here, and no one knows how many amazing technologies are hidden under the mysterious surface.

Oh, and there are some unconfirmed legends about the base:

An expert wanted to send his son, who had come back from foreign gilding and had no skills, to work, but Lin Ju readily agreed and gave him an intermediate technical management position.

At that time, the experts of the space agency who knew about it thought that the person must be a moth, but he didn't expect that after the guy who didn't learn and didn't know how to enter the base, he suddenly began to study hard and work hard, and he was extremely loyal to the company and refused to say anything.

Outsiders are rumoring that the base is very evil and will brainwash, but Shen Zuozhou admires it very much, thinking that the atmosphere here is really positive, and it is simply a pure land for scientific research.

The space agency needs to learn not only about production, but more importantly, about the working environment!

"Beep-beep-beep-"

"It's coming!"

Xiao Okada, who was half-lying, jumped to his feet, and the rest of the engineers who were about to fall asleep immediately entered the working state.

Of course, in fact, it is the best case that they have nothing to do, and under normal conditions, the probe's own planning is the best solution.

The distance between Venus and the Earth is now almost 50 million kilometers, and it takes more than two minutes for electromagnetic waves to make a trip, which is much more delayed than on the Moon.

The screen in the center of the control room gradually began to load pictures, and ultra-long-range communication is not good for this: the transmission bandwidth capacity is small, and the size of the photos taken by the detector is very large, and it takes 10 minutes to send back a photo, which is considered "extremely fast", and it is common to transmit a picture for several hours.

However, the orbital data took precedence over the pictures, and the positions of the two detectors were immediately confirmed through these simple digital control rooms.

Although it was launched a day apart, it was only a few hours short of arriving at the time, and the "Taibai" had already completed its orbit and was correcting its orbit with Hall thrusters, and it was it that transmitted the first picture back.

It will take a while for Daystar-1 to enter the atmosphere, and it will not slow down into orbit but directly into the atmosphere, and it is expected to come into contact with the atmosphere in two or three hours, and carry out the atmospheric sample return mission.

Among them, Daystar No. 1 is the focus of attention, as long as "Taibai" can be derailed, there will be no major problems, at least it can run there for more than ten years and continuously collect data.

It took almost 13 minutes for the first image sent back by Taibai to finally load completely.

This is a picture taken at a distance of 3,400 kilometers, and Venus, although already close, still occupies only a small part of the huge frame.

But it doesn't matter, the clarity brought by the 4.1-meter diameter ultra-large lens manufactured by Changchun Optics is also extremely amazing.

This ultra-clear picture, which is more than hundreds of megabytes in size, was directly enlarged by Xiao Okada until the outline of the surface of Venus was completely revealed.

From the perspective of the time, Venus is a full-fledged true golden planet, full of amazing details.

The volcano on its surface is clearly visible in the photo, and you can see the valley where liquid once flowed.

Ignoring its extremely harsh atmosphere, Venus is indeed more like a planet with life than Mars – and perhaps still is.

Xiao Okada continued to zoom in, and Taibai's resolution at this distance was also 1 meter, which was enough to see the topography on its surface.

The enlarged ground occupied a huge screen that fit the corner of the wall, and Shen Zuozhou looked at it obsessively, refusing to let go of every detail.

This is the most similar terrestrial planet in the solar system to the earth, but it rotates in the opposite direction, its orbital period is 225 days, and the rotation period is 243 days, which is longer and longer every year, revealing mysteries everywhere.

There are also a large number of studies speculating that there are very likely microorganisms on its planet, no matter what type of ghost it is, but it will be the first real extraterrestrial life discovered by humans.

With great anticipation, he immediately began to check the data of "Daystar 1", and only it had any hope of finding life on Venus.

In addition to the flyer that collects samples in the outer atmosphere, the lander will also deliberately slow down as it passes through a cloud of sulfuric acid in an attempt to collect microorganisms, fighting to survive against 90 times the atmospheric pressure, sulfuric acid rain, 400-degree heat and storms, faithfully fulfilling its mission.

(End of chapter)