Chapter 33, Mysterious White Highlights
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Since Ceres, which loves to play hide-and-seek, has been staring at the astronomers on the Zheng He, and at the same time, the huge scientific investigation is flying towards Ceres quickly. The distance is still very far and it will take some days to reach it.
However, scientists are unable to rest and use various scientific instruments to start various observations and measurements of Ceres. As the distance to Ceres gets closer, relatively clear photos can be taken on the Zheng He. At this time, scientists are studying the newly captured photos.
In the huge hall of the "Zheng He" Science Research Center, Jiang Zhipeng, Ying Bai Nian, Bai Fengling and other hundreds of scientists were surrounding the middle at this time. Where is a huge virtual 3D stereoscopic image rotating slowly? The image is a very common planet image in the universe.
"Ceres is too small compared to the Earth. Its surface gravity acceleration is only 0.27, which is not the same level as our Earth's 9.8!"
"Ceres' escape speed is only 510 meters per second, which means you use a rifle to shoot a bullet into the sky on Ceres. This bullet can get rid of gravity and become Ceres' satellite!"
Ying Bainian used easy-to-understand words to analyze the data of Ceres for everyone present. The scientists here have many kinds of things to consider, and they don’t really understand astronomy, so it is best to explain astronomy knowledge more commonly, so everyone can understand it better.
"Ceres has a diameter of 950 kilometers. If it is counted as an asteroid, it is undoubtedly a giant, but if it is placed in the sequence of planets, it is a dwarf, and it has won the title of dwarf planet!"
"The mass of Ceres is 950 million tons, the mass of the moon is 734.9 billion tons, and the mass of Ceres is only 1/773 that of the moon. However, according to the information we have now, 40% of the mass on Ceres should be water! That is to say, Ceres contains 380 million tons of water!"
"What is the concept of 380 million tons of water? Let's simply convert the weight of water into volume. One cubic cube of water is one ton, and Ceres' water has 380 million cubic cubes, which is equal to 38 million cubic cubes and 38 million cubic cubes. We all know that the content of Earth's water resources is 1.386 million cubic cubes, of which freshwater resources are 35 million cubic cubes. Therefore, the content of water resources on Ceres is more than the total freshwater resources on Earth!"
"That's great!" When I heard this, all the scientists present and scientists far away on Earth couldn't help but admire that the water resources of Ceres were actually more than the freshwater resources on Earth. This is of great significance to the future development of human space. With water, everything else is easy to say!
"Aren't we always worried about not having enough water resources on Mars? If we can transport the water resources on Ceres to Mars, the water resources needed to transform Mars will be enough!"
Other scientists nodded after hearing this. The Mars transformation that seemed impossible to be completed has basically become famous. It seems that the decision of the company's senior management to transform Mars for immigration is not nonsense, but it is still feasible.
"After you understand the basic information about Ceres, I will show you something that makes people interested!" Ying Bainian smiled mysteriously, then pressed the controller in his hand, and there was a place on the slowly rotating Ceres image with some white highlights.
"Please see, in the northern hemisphere of Ceres, we photographed a white highlight here in a crater. Through the observation of a large space telescope, we found that it is actually composed of many small highlights. I wonder what you think?"
Everyone was attracted by the topic of winning for a hundred years. There were countless white highlights on a planet, and everyone was instantly inspired. After seeing too many gray asteroids and meteorites, they became interested in changing colors.
"I think these dazzling highlights are caused by the reflection of sunlight by strong reflective matter. These substances may be ice. As you mentioned earlier, 40% of the mass of this Ceres is water. In addition, Ceres is a naked star without atmosphere and a dead star without internal activities. I think there is a high probability that it is ice!"
Bai Fengling thought about putting forward his point of view. His point of view was supported by great scientists, but it still has great persuasiveness and scientific basis.
"I believe there are aliens, where are you?" Some people who usually like to joke at this time actually remembered it.
"At least there are no aliens in the solar system. I'm sure this. Our telescope is already very powerful. If there are aliens, we will always find some high-tech!" Ying Bainian shook his head and expressed his helplessness to the person with this kind of jumping thinking. He discussed the white highlights carefully and even jumped the aliens all of a sudden. However, it has to be said that science sometimes also requires this jumping thinking.
"I also think it's ice. It's possible that the water generated after the comet impact formed ice at the bottom of the pit. The reflectivity of the ice is enough to make us look white after space. Let's take a look. These white highlights are located in a crater, which supports what I just said, the water generated after the comet impact, and then the ice becomes ice at low temperature!"
"I don't agree with it's ice. You can see that the surface of Ceres is generally gray and dark, but we can all be sure that there is a lot of water on Ceres, which means that there may be ice directly under these gray and dark surfaces. The gray and dark color on this surface should be covered by cosmic dust in a long history!"
"Since other places have been covered, why isn't there just here? So I think it's not ice, it should be the crystals of some kind of mineral, such as quartz, which has a very high reflectivity!"
Some scientists shook their heads and opposed the idea that it was ice, believing that it was a mineral with a crystal structure.
"Huh? Are there many super big diamonds? Haha, it seems that the gift we went back has been settled!"
"I pray that it's diamonds, what's the use of ice?"
Chapter completed!