Chapter 210, Exploring Mars (1)
The speed of the Ocean spacecraft has been reduced to only a few kilometers per second, and was successfully captured by Mars' gravity and began to orbit around Mars.
"Mars is so desolate. You can clearly see the surface of Mars from space, sand dunes and gravel everywhere, and the red world is everywhere."
Liu Shiying looked at Mars outside the window. Because the Earth of Mars is very thin, he can see the surface of Mars very clearly with the naked eye in space, and with the help of a telescope, he can see clearly.
"These are all colors formed by iron oxide. The sandstorms on Mars are really amazing. Look here. The wind speed has reached an unprecedented level 21. This is impossible on Earth. Flying sand and stones and dust are not enough to describe it."
Liu Yi pointed to an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars and said in surprise that he could see the storm on Mars with his naked eyes, which shows how terrible the storm on Mars is.
"The Martian storm mainly occurs in the southern hemisphere of Mars. The current time is almost the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere of Mars. It is considered the perihelion of Mars. The air is particularly hot and very unstable. In addition, the huge temperature difference on Mars, so it is very easy to form a super hurricane. The surface of Mars is full of sand and soil. Once a super hurricane is formed, it can even sweep the entire Mars. It seems that we should be more careful and careful when conducting Mars exploration."
Li Fu, who was standing by, was also admiring the great storm on Mars at this time, and carefully analyzed the reasons for the formation of such great storms. One is that the temperature difference between Mars is too large, and the other is that there are many tiny particles on the surface of Mars, so it is easy to form this wonder that only exists on Mars.
"Release detection satellites and establish a global positioning communication system."
"Release the unmanned detector."
"Release the unmanned Mars landing vehicle."
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Arriving on Mars, various probes and detection satellites were spread out without any money. In the past, launching a satellite was considered a big deal and had to be reported on the news. However, now, countless private space technology companies in China have many of their own satellites, let alone Fuyun Group.
The extensive application and popularization of aerospace planes has reduced the cost and launch costs of satellites, spacecraft, etc. to an almost negligible level. Of course, this is also for a super behemoth like Fuyun Group.
"Didi!"
Various probes soon began to send various information back to the Ocean Spaceship, establish a global positioning system on Mars, and start sending information to the Earth, transmitting the detailed information on Mars back to the Earth, so as to facilitate scientists on the Earth to conduct in-depth research on Mars.
"Phobos and Phobos are probably the smallest satellites in the entire solar system. The mass of the two satellites is too small, and they are not even spherical in shape. Phobos looks like a potato, with an escape speed of only 17.2m/s, while Phobos is even smaller, with an average radius of only 6.2 kilometers and an escape speed of only 5.6m/s."
"The mass of these two satellites is only 1.38×10^14 kilograms, and the mass of Phobos is only 1.8×10^13 kilograms, and the mass is very small. You should know that the mass of the moon is 7.349×10^22 kilograms, which is not the same weight level at most. Phobos and Phobos can only be considered a larger asteroid at most."
This time, the scientists of the universe and astronomy major who followed him were still Dong Zhifei and Tang Boyuan. The two easily and accurately calculated the mass of the two Mars satellites.
The detection satellite has calculated the detailed information about the shape, volume, orbit, speed, etc. of the two satellites. At such a close distance, the mysterious veil of the two satellites on Mars has finally been revealed. In fact, there is nothing strange at all. It is not as good as the moon at all, but just a larger asteroid.
"I guess Phobos and Phobos should be asteroids captured by Mars' gravity. Their mass is too small. If placed on the Earth, it will not even be enough to cause any tides."
Tang Boyuan looked at the data of the two satellites and was speculating on the source of the two satellites.
"Send some detectors to go up and take a look, collect some samples and come back to analyze them."
Dong Zhifei also nodded. It is the simplest and most appropriate to study Mars satellites in space, because the distance between the two satellites of Mars is very close to Mars, the average distance between Phobos is even less than 10,000 kilometers, and the distance between Phobos is only about 23,000 kilometers, which is very close to them.
Of course, this is also because the mass of the two is very small, so the distance can be so close. If it is like the moon, the mass is very large, the corresponding distance will continue to increase.
In the outer space of Mars, a small unmanned spacecraft slowly flew out on the huge Ocean Spacecraft, and constantly changed orbits in space, and soon headed straight for Phobos.
At this time, Mars Yi is still moving continuously around Mars, and will fly around Mars for three days every day. The unmanned spacecraft has now adjusted to the orbit of Phobos, and its speed is faster than Phobos, so the distance between the two is constantly getting closer.
The unmanned detection spacecraft is already very close to Phobos, and it is slightly affected by Phobos' gravity, but Phobos' gravity is too weak, and it has no big impact on the unmanned detection spacecraft with plasma engines installed.
The unmanned spacecraft slowly approached Phobos, as if it was approaching a spaceport in space. The mechanical arms on the spacecraft slowly stretched out and began to collect samples from Phobos so that scientists could analyze these samples, so that they could know the approximate time period of Phobos formation, analyze the source and formation of these substances, etc., and then they could roughly know the history of Phobos, the reason for the formation, and when they became a Mars satellite.
Even if you are lucky, you can even learn some information about the origin of the solar system from Phobos, because according to scientists' speculations, small satellites like Phobos and asteroids in the asteroid belt may have been generated by the early evolution of the solar system and carry some information from the early solar system.
Large planets such as Earth, Mars, Venus, etc., have been difficult to explore because of their large mass and their own activities. They have not had much effect on studying the formation of the solar system. On the contrary, these asteroids and so on are likely to carry early information.
After collecting the samples, the unmanned spacecraft slowly left Phobos, and began to change its orbit in space, and began to approach Phobos. As usual, the samples on Phobos were obtained very smoothly, and then they began to carry the samples back towards the Ocean spacecraft.
In Mars' space, the Ocean Spaceship is extremely busy. Scientists have clear division of labor and they each control unmanned probes, unmanned detection spacecraft, unmanned landing spacecraft, etc. to explore the entire Mars.
Chapter completed!