Yuan Shichen has been continuously looking up information related to Mars exploration in his office and laboratory all day long.

Obviously, after humans have explored Mars for nearly a century, the number of relevant graphic and text materials has long been extremely large.

"No wonder, when I proposed the idea of ​​finding a meteorite impacting the ground, Philip would refute his behavior as looking for a needle in a haystack." Yuan Shichen sighed in his heart.

However, of course, Yuan Shichen was not so stupid.

He would definitely not look up these materials one by one like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Yuan Shichen's search has only two focuses, one is the ancient volcanic belt of Mars, and the other is the giant craters on Mars.

His plan is to first lock in the rough target area, and then compare the rock sample information collected by the Mars rover around the target area (the probe can only analyze samples on Mars, and the samples cannot be brought back to Earth).

If the rock sample in the target area is similar to the main part of the Naichen meteorite, it will be listed as a key observation target by the original Naichen.

Of course, this method can only be successful on Mars, and it is absolutely impossible to put it on Earth.

Because, compared with the Earth, Mars' geological activities are very inactive, and most of its surface landforms were formed in more active periods in ancient times. Moreover, the geological structure and material composition of Mars are much monotonous compared to the Earth.

Fortunately, Yuan Shichen had almost unforgettable memories, which made him look up information so quickly. This is probably what the so-called human-shaped computer means.

After nearly a day of hard work, Yuan Shichen has basically locked in the area he thinks is the most likely area - the southeast of Mars, where there are many ancient volcanic belts and huge giant craters.

"My God, why are you still checking the information?" Old Goethe had already returned from the archives. He was surprised to find that Yuan Shichen was still staying in front of the computer.

"You have to take a break," said Old Goethe, concerned, "You haven't eaten the fruits and snacks I have prepared for you."

"Don't worry, Goethe, I'm in a good mental state." Yuan Shichen could feel the care of this little old man for him.

"You'd better take a break first." Old Goethe was still a little worried, "and then take a look at the pictures and texts I brought back from the archives."

"Oh, there are really a lot of information!" Yuan Shichen had also noticed the old pictures and texts stacked like hills on the information car parked next to Old Goethe.

Yuan Shichen stopped the work at hand, left the seat, picked up a fruit platter prepared by Old Goethe for him, and walked towards the information car while tasting it.

"I said, Goethe, the fruit tastes good!" Yuan Shichen praised. The food at the underground base is good, but fruits like this are rare.

"Of course, John liked it very much before." Old Goethe showed a slight smug smile on his face.

"It's a huge mistake for other scientists not to choose you as an assistant secretary."

"By the way, did Amanda and the others say anything?" Yuan Shichen seemed to remember something and continued to ask.

"Amanda heard that you were looking up information in the laboratory. Although her face was unhappy, she didn't say anything." Old Goethe recalled a little, and then continued, "Oh, Miss Amanda didn't seem to be in a good mood at that time. She seemed to be still worried about not being able to participate in the dark matter research."

"That's for sure. No one wants to miss the greatest scientific discovery of the 21st century." Yuan Shichen had expected Amanda's situation.

"But, I don't think you care about this." Old Goethe asked in confusion.

"Actually, what Frank said makes sense. The study of dark matter must be a protracted work. Although it is extremely important, I don't want to spend most of my life on it."

"You are such a young man with great ideas." When the old Goethe heard this, he smiled and gave his thumbs up.

"Thank you for your praise, let's see what treasures are collected in the archives." Yuan Shichen has always had his own ideas and clear goals, so he really doesn't care so much about this.

"Okay, I'll help you sort it out for a brief simplicity." Although the old Goethe's movements were slow, he was still very careful and busy.

"Oh, there are actually some information taken by NASA (NASA) when it landed on Mars plan." Yuan Shichen said with a bright look.

"But these information are too rough and have not been sorted out at all."

"According to the records of the archives, these information were asked by the IEA organization to NASA after the failure of the Mars landing plan." Old Goethe thought for a while and added to Hashihara.

Yuan Naichen nodded understandingly, and then began to read carefully.

More than ten years have passed, and these materials have become very messy. Perhaps no one has carefully sorted out these materials.

But this does not conform to the behavior and management style of the Interstellar Exploration Alliance.

Among all the materials that Yuan Shichen has consulted in the past, any scientific research project, regardless of its size or importance, will be classified and archived in detail.

What's more, it's an important project like Mars landing!

"Goethe, are all the relevant information here?" Yuan Shichen glanced around the information car and asked in confusion, "Why do I feel that these information is so chaotic?"

"That's right, Neichen, I just know the whole story of this matter." Goethe showed a serious expression on his face.

"That's great, tell me quickly." As Yuan Shichen picked up the fruit plate, patted his butt and sat on the sofa to feast, listening to Old Goethe's story with great enthusiasm.

The unexpected failure of the US NASA Mars landing program caused a stir in the entire scientific community, and people all over the world were talking about it.

At that time, it was the critical stage of a new round of US government elections. The carefully prepared Mars landing plan, which had been unexpectedly failed for many years, was denounced by many political groups and public organizations as radical projects that cost the people and were questioned by all walks of life.

In such a silence, NASA hastily threw the relevant information to the IEA at will. The Interstellar Exploration Alliance was obviously not satisfied with these extremely rough information, so it did not pay much attention to it, but simply sealed it in the archives.

Because the Mars landing plan is of great significance, the Interstellar Exploration Alliance also asked NASA again for relevant information, but they were all excused by NASA. After repeated urging, the matter was left in vain.

"So that's it..." Yuan Shichen said with thoughtful thought.

Despite this, Yuan Shichen and Goethe spent nearly two days to sort out these complicated information in a thorough manner.

Judging from the photos taken by the Mars II spacecraft ultra-high-definition probe, Mars is basically deserted, with dunes and gravel on the surface, and the terrain contrast in the northern and southern hemispheres is extremely strong:

The north is a low plain filled with lava, and the south is an ancient highland full of craters, and the two are separated by a distinct slope terrain;

The volcanic terrain is interspersed throughout the southern part of Mars, and there are many canyons distributed during this period. The Arctic Pole of Mars is covered with a crown composed of dry ice and water ice all year round;

For these vast pictures and text information, Yuan Shichen mainly focused on the ancient highlands in the south of Mars, full of craters.

During the inspection, Yuan Shichen unexpectedly discovered that the original landing location planned by the NASA Mars landing operation in the United States was near an ancient crater south of Mars.

However, in the end, due to the violent sandstorm, the US NASA gave up its login plan, so it did not see valuable follow-up information.

After quickly browsing these high-definition image materials, Haraki closed his eyes silently.

Soon, all the image information I had seen was connected very well in his mind, and a rough Martian landform structure model was presented in Yuan Shichen's mind.

"Strange, why is there a lack of image information in some areas?" Yuan Naichen did not open his eyes immediately, but frowned and repeatedly confirmed and searched.

When he compared the Mars landform map presented in his mind with the information he searched for and browsed a few days ago, he was surprised to find that before the Mars II spacecraft was planned to log in, there was indeed a part of the image information taken.

Moreover, the missing part of the image happened to be the area where the unmanned spacecraft was launched onto the surface of Mars by the Mars II spacecraft to collect samples of boulders.

This probably won't be just a coincidence, right?
Chapter completed!