Chapter 103, Ocean Forest
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With the continuous improvement of irrigation facilities on the Mars continent, the green area of Pangu Continent is getting bigger and bigger. Starting from the coastal areas of Pangu Continent, it slowly spreads to the inland of Pangu Continent. Every day, the green world expands one circle, and the desert area of Pangu Continent will shrink one circle to the middle!
At the same time, Qingquan Technology, which knows that Mars is full of energy, has accelerated the transformation of the Martian continent, and also accelerated the transformation of the Martian ocean!
The ocean of Mars is a freshwater ocean!
In fact, the original sea water on the earth is not filled with salt at the beginning. At first, it is fresh water like river water, but the water on the earth is constantly circulating and moving. Every year, a large amount of water evaporates on the surface of the ocean. Some of the water is transported over the land through atmospheric movement, and then forms precipitation and falls on the ground, eroding the soil, destroying rocks, and bringing soluble substances on land (mostly various salts) to the rivers, and rivers and rivers return to the sea.
In this way, about 3 billion tons of salt are brought into the ocean every year, and the ocean becomes a shelter for all dissolved salts. In the evaporation of seawater, the salts that are earned cannot rise with the steam and have to stay in the ocean. In this way, the salts in the ocean accumulate more and more, and the seawater in the earth's ocean becomes saltier and saltier.
The sea water of the Martian Ocean is like the primitive sea water of the early Earth. It has not undergone a long historical water cycle and no large amount of salt substances dissolved into it. Therefore, the sea water of the Martian Ocean is freshwater! A huge freshwater ocean!
Qingquan Technology has tried to place a large number of freshwater plants, such as aquatic plants, goldfish algae, water grass, lotus, king lotus, water hyacinth and other freshwater plants found on Earth into the huge freshwater ocean of Mars.
At the same time, scientists from the Institute of Biology also recombined the seawater plants, replaced the saltwater-adapted genes inside to form new species, and all of them were placed in the Martian ocean.
The largest area on the earth is the ocean, which contains countless marine plants, and there are more than ten categories of various algae alone, and more than ten thousand species! Among them, there are more than 6,000 varieties of Diatomaceous phylum!
If you want to transform the Martian ocean, you must not miss these. Compared with the types of ocean plants, the number of plants in the freshwater on Earth is simply insignificant!
Of course, this is also the result of evolution. The earliest life on Earth was born in the ocean and then slowly developed to the continent. The same is true for plants in the water. All the freshwater plants on the earth evolved from freshwater plants in the ocean, and even all the plants on the earth's land evolved from marine plants.
From this we can also know that plants in freshwater are more advanced than plants in seawater! Freshwater plants are higher plants in water, mainly seed plants and ferns, rather than algae and moss. They have great water tolerance and can grow on soils containing saturated water for a long time.
The plants in the Earth's oceans are primary producers, and many of them are still based on basic cell structures like algae. The way they reproduce is simple cell division or reproduction through spores.
However, the plants in seawater are very diverse in species and different in shapes because of their simple structure and long history of evolution.
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Currently, there are only cyanobacteria and microorganisms in the sea water on Mars, and the reproduction speed is very fast!
Space shuttles flew over the Mars ocean, dropped countless biological seeds, and artificial intervention. These plants that could have been able to evolve were directly distributed very evenly into the huge Mars ocean.
The fact is just as Qingquan Technologists expected, under the abundant energy of Mars, the plants placed in the Martian ocean grow very well. Compared with the earth, these plants grow more lushly, and one of the main manifestations is their huge size!
When Wang Lian is on the earth, its leaf diameter can grow up to 2 meters. The leaves and veins have many large cavity, which are filled with gas to make the leaves float on the water surface and can carry 70 kilograms on the leaves, which is equivalent to the weight of an adult!
After arriving at Mars, these king lotus are even more amazing. The diameter of the leaves can reach ten meters, just like a huge lid, which can withstand objects weighing more than ten meters!
If a large area of Wang Lian is linked together, it is like an island scattered on the sea, very spectacular!
At the same time, in the ocean waters of Mars, a plant world like the forest on earth was slowly formed!
Aquatic plants, the thing that is inconspicuous on the earth, became like a forest on the earth when it arrived in the ocean of Mars. Each aquatic plants were a huge forest under the water!
The current environment of Mars seems to be very suitable for the growth of aquatic plants. Aquatic plants can grow to a height of tens of meters here. Its main trunk is as thick as a tree, and there are countless branches and leaves, all of which are very huge and lush. Aquatic plants, coupled with its countless branches that have reproduced, etc., form a huge green underwater forest with a radius of hundreds of meters!
The ocean in Mars is very transparent. If you look at it from the ocean, if you don’t look carefully, you will have an illusion that this is a forest on land!
When you see the bend formed with the water flow, you will realize that it is actually in the ocean!
The forests under the sea and the water surface have gradually formed islands composed of effervescent plants. Moreover, the area of these islands is getting bigger and bigger, many of which are like real islands, and the plants on them are like forests on islands!
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The gravity on Mars is smaller than that on Earth, the atmosphere is thinner, the sun's light will not weaken too much, the carbon dioxide in the air is stronger, and there are no animals to feed here. More importantly, Mars is now very abundant, which can greatly promote the growth and evolution of life.
All the very short water plants on Earth have undergone earth-shaking changes when they arrive on Mars, and they are all magnified many times, some even dozens or hundreds of times.
At this time, Ji You and his people were collecting specimens on the Mars ocean. The huge space shuttle was quietly suspended above the sea, close to the sea!
At the same time, behind the buttocks of the space shuttle, the huge hatch opened, and a strange-shaped diving instrument with many cutting arms began to slowly sink into the water.
"In just one year, the Mars ocean has become a green forest world, faster than the greening speed of ours in Pangu continent!" Ji You looked at the clear and transparent sea water below, and the endless forest that kept floating with the water flowing in the sea, and couldn't help but sigh!
Under the water, the diving instruments sank to a depth of hundreds of meters. We found a plant in the water like kelp. Yes, we can only say that it is like kelp!
Because this kelp is so big!
Kelp is a large marine brown algae plant grown in low-temperature seawater. It can grow up to 20 meters on Earth. After arriving at Mars, this kelp grows directly from hundreds of meters under the sea to the sea surface. It has a length of hundreds of meters. Its huge leaves are like a huge wall, with a width of dozens of meters and a thickness of several meters!
Its roots are like a huge tree, with a diameter of more than ten meters and huge and lush roots pierced deeply into the soil at the bottom of the sea. No matter how impact the sea water hits it, it has no effect on it and is very solid!
"Head, the submersible has reached the bottom of the sea. The plants under the water are too lush. The submersible's sharp knives are almost entangled!" Ji You accepted it and reported the progress through the communicator.
"This is kelp, it's like a giant tree that rises from the sky!" Ji You looked at the picture teleported under the water. The bottom of the kelp is too big, with a diameter of more than ten meters. There are not many big trees on the earth that are so big!
"Cut this kelp, let's eat kelp silk tonight!"
The submersible under the water emitted a dazzling white light and directly swept across the roots of the huge kelp. The diameter of more than ten meters was cut into two sections. Even the other water plants next to them were affected. They were all cut into two sections by white light, and floated up with the water.
The diving machine shot out a sharp hook and pierced into the huge meat of the kelp, and then floated up. The huge space shuttle had already been prepared.
The winch slowly pulled, and the giant kelp was slowly pulled out of the water. The green kelp and huge volume directly stuffed the back of the large space shuttle. It was really impossible to install it at the back, so it could only cut off a large piece.
"How many people can eat this kelp?" Ji You looked at the giant kelp in the back warehouse and couldn't help but sigh!
"Its mass is dozens of tons, and a meal per person is 1 kilogram. It is enough for tens of thousands of people to eat!"
"But I doubt its taste. After all, no matter how thick it is, the fiber must be very thick, and the taste must not be very good!"
"It's hard to say, the lotus seed we picked last time was the size of a basketball. It tasted very sweet and crispy. I think the taste of this kelp should be OK too!"
"Don't say, the lotus seed tastes really good. I eat it every day now, but the lotus seed is too big. In the past, we used to cut watermelon on Earth, but when we went to Mars, we cut lotus seeds!"
"The aquatic plants grow so huge on Mars. If some animals in the water are placed in this ocean in the future, wouldn't it be a big deal?"
"It's hard to say! But I'm thinking that the seafood tastes in the Martian sea will definitely be very good in the future. Well, I'm drooling just thinking about it!"
Chapter completed!