"I see it...... A big pit, a perfectly round pit. ”

Two hours after the explosion.

While the base was busy discussing GW180509, Aramco discovered the M signal for the third time, and United Mining celebrated its first test explosion, the astronauts working on the development of the moon continued to do their part.

The Wutu space station has flown over the explosion area, and the surface of the explosion has been seen through the telescope.

This large space station around the moon was on the back side of the nuclear explosion, avoiding more than 95% of the impact, and only because of the electromagnetic pulse caused a communication interruption for dozens of minutes, and the rest of the parts were in good working condition and no anomalies were found.

However, by the time they reached here, the lunar dust that had been ejected into orbit by the explosion was still there, spreading outward at a tremendous muzzle velocity.

Fortunately, the effects of such a nuclear bomb are tantamount to itching on the moon, and there is no fear of causing too many adverse effects.

In fact, the astronauts are also working at risk, and the spacesuit is not a reinforced version of the PRO's chemical protection suit, and the characteristics of cosmic radiation and nuclear radiation are also different, so they cannot pass through the core area.

Unlike the last meeting, which was attended by all 15 members, this time it was a closed-door meeting, which was even more mysterious.

"Can you estimate the diameter of the crater, is there 100 meters?"

The advantages of nuclear power are vividly reflected here, and the average lunar rover cannot travel more than 200 kilometers in one breath, and still have such an abundant power supply.

Not only to carry out the sampling task, but also to recycle the hard disk of the monitor placed around the blast center.

Since the GPS system has been paralyzed, the space station can only provide rough guidance.

The effect of hydrogen bombs on mining can only be determined through space observations, and it will take 72 hours for robots or astronauts to re-enter the blast center and carry out excavation and sampling in the field.

'Fourteen' is not only a powerful artificial intelligence, but also familiar with almost all the geographical environment around hundreds of kilometers, and the speed of 45 kilometers per hour is only the limit of T7, not its limit.

A small amount of dust must have crashed into the station, leaving a slight yellow-brown trail of streamlining.

Xu Rang was shocked by the astonishing level of this leak, but at the same time he was excited about the technology he had mastered.

There are too many newly deposited surface electrostatic micro-clusters, and many of the previously uncharged lunar dust has also deteriorated due to radiation, which has caused the moondust attached to the spacesuit and lunar rover to be far more than expected.

……

Li Wei was communicating with the space station while rushing to the mining area in the T7 lunar rover.

It was still Ami who preached, but the change from Germani, the representative to the United Nations, to Sullivan made the rest of the Quartet have to cheer up and listen carefully to what kind of medicine is sold in Ami's gourd.

waited until he was careful to stand firm, and Li Wei asked Fu Xiangjie to come down on the radio.

Li Wei pushed open the hatch and poked it down lightly, confirming from the depth of the footprints that the floating soil layer on the surface had increased.

In the United Nations building, the latest round of additional amendments to the Outer Space Treaty is taking place.

The representatives of the three parties vaguely sensed something, and felt as if something terrible had happened, and their eyes kept wandering between Sullivan and Xu Rang, who seemed to have no communication.

The ground considered this situation and asked them not to take off their spacesuits after returning to the lunar rover, and after completing the mission, the T7 was transferred to an unmanned mission vehicle, and the spacesuit was to be discarded and no longer used, so they were still wearing the old-fashioned 'Pioneer I.'.

The two took advantage of the strong light of the lunar rover to dig on the small dirt slope with shovels, and only after half a day did they find the cable of the first collector, followed it to the main unit, and then unplugged the hard drive full of English signs as instructed.

"Data Collection: 1/12"

While the country was furious about the early leak of the 210 project, he was furious and searched for the "senior spy", and he also selectively told Xu Rang a little bit of the truth about Ami's abnormal movements.

May 11, Manhattan.

What Sullivan said this time was not much different from the last time Germani's speech, but it was a little more pertinent, and from time to time he mentioned that "some unstable factors," "stimulating the escalation of the situation," and "the final result of arming space must be comprehensively bad."

They are now not only observing the effect of the test explosion, but also providing navigation for Li Wei and Fu Xiangjie on the ground.

In fact, because Robin Hood is a semi-public experiment, the data of the seven experimental devices will basically be obtained, but the information that can be learned without knowing the purpose of each other's experiments is relatively limited.

However, Li Wei speculated from the communication from the Wutu space station that the explosion effect was quite good, and the bold move of United Mining was completely feasible.

7 test devices and 12 monitors collected data from the unidentified equipment placed in each place, and the data was encrypted separately and waited to be sent back to Earth for analysis.

The logo of Union Mining flew around the world with these ores, and he was one of the first people to witness the beginning of the golden age of space.

The rover set off five minutes after the explosion and spurred forward at a speed of 45 km/h under the nimble maneuvering of 'Fourteen', kicking up billowing dust wherever it passed.

The 12 astronauts scrambled to see the landmarks after the explosion, which by this time were no longer distinguishable to the naked eye.

When Li Wei arrived at the explosion area, it was already two o'clock in the morning, and at this time, the far side of the moon was still in the moonlit night, and only the overhead of the lunar rover projected a super bright bright light, illuminating the fan-shaped area about 200 meters long.

T7 stopped behind a small hill 5 km away from the blast center, where the first collector needed to be recovered.

After marking the electronic map, the two re-entered the rover and headed to the next location.

The nose-spirited man had already smelled something unusual, waiting for the truth to emerge, while the only two in the know were still silently engaged in the confrontation.

The public data of the test explosion has been sent back, and the 12 secret hard drives are still on the way, but it can be seen from the heated discussions in the blasting team in the past two days that the results of the test should be good.

It was as if he had seen a super pit thousands of meters deep, and a mining robot as industrious as ants, which were then crushed and loaded into trucks, transported to the Yushu base for smelting and forming, and then accelerated by a long electromagnetic orbit to the earth.

It is precisely in this context that it is unusual for Aramco to insist on revising the Outer Space Treaty.

The moon has no atmosphere, so it is outside the core area of the explosion, and the outer terrain will not be greatly changed by the shock wave, but a large amount of moon dust will be added.

But it also took almost six hours to reach the mine, and it was basically a day to go back and forth, and both astronauts were prepared for emergencies.

This time there were no robots on the mission, and the protection of the Explorer series was limited to the normal environment on the lunar surface, and the residual radiation values after the nuclear explosion were quite high enough to interfere with them.

If it's really that kind of thing, Ami's awkward posture of jumping on her feet but not daring to break it in front of her can be completely understood, pretending not to know that it is brewing hidden dangers, but pointing it out will seriously affect the situation.

Xu Rang easily understood what kind of attitude he should make, so he sat very comfortably in place, looking very interested in world peace.

(End of chapter)