Annihilation of the solar system

After nearly two months of space flight, the four astronauts aboard the "Hongyan" who went to space for the first time have adapted to life in space. Lin Tianyu is strapping himself to a treadmill for a run.

The most done thing.

Because the microgravity environment in space will cause their bones and muscles to decline. Although this does not affect their work in space, it may leave sequelae when they return to the normal gravity environment of the earth. Although such exercise cannot completely solve the decline of physical function

, but it can also greatly alleviate that situation.

Wei Xu was eating beef jerky from a sealed bag. He seemed to have returned to the round face shape before training. This was not because he had gained weight again, but also because the microgravity of space filled his face with blood.

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Xia Lan stared at the huge orange planet outside the porthole window. At this time, Venus was no longer the poetic morning star that emitted warm light yellow from the telescope. She could already clearly see the violent violence in the thick atmosphere.

The cyclone pulls the surrounding clouds like a mixer and dough, and is rushing around in overwhelming numbers.

She looked back at the direction they came from. If she hadn't had rich experience in astronomy, she would no longer be able to see the existence of the earth. The beautiful blue star is as common as millions of twinkling stars in the starry sky. This is the first time in human history that the Earth has existed.

The farthest distance on earth. There was no pride in her heart as she imagined, but fear intertwined with it.

Hou Peng floated over from the rear cargo warehouse. The densely packed materials in the material warehouse behind the bulk cargo warehouse were much less. He returned to the co-pilot position:

"I have checked that all equipment is operating normally, all packages have been firmly fixed, and the docking process can be entered."

Lu Yuanzhou operated various buttons in the cockpit:

"Okay, the data link has been established with the "Life" space station. Everyone, secure yourselves. The automatic docking program will enter in 5 minutes, and the rendezvous and docking will take place in 40 minutes."

Just like when they left the starport before, they fixed themselves up and waited for the spacecraft and the space station to complete automatic docking.

Not long after, the "Life" space station that had been waiting there for a long time could be seen out of the "Hongyan"'s port window. She was launched into the orbit of Venus three months ago and is an unmanned space station that has been automatically docked and assembled.

Compared with the grandeur of Tiangong-3, Life appears to be very compact.

Its size is equivalent to that of the Tianzhou spacecraft. It is connected by a docking port to a long cabin section and two short cabin sections in a "T" shape. The long section of the T shape is the landing module, and the short horizontal section is the landing module and the spacecraft.

On the other side of the docking channel is a Venus atmosphere shuttle.

"The guys at the Aerospace Center and the Academy of Engineering are really amazing! They came up with this plan in such a short time."

Wei Xu looked at the "Life" that was gradually approaching and sighed. From this distance, the heat-insulating coating with the same color as gold foil on the surface of the shuttle and the landing module could be clearly seen.

"I heard from students in the School of Engineering that they worked overtime day and night for more than a month during research and development."

Xia Lan said with emotion, thinking about how many times she had stayed up late and worked overtime because of her participation in this task.

Lin Tianyu looked at the information in his hand and said:

"I've seen the design plans and operation manuals, and they're really impressive. It's not just how advanced the technology is, it's really impressive that they can come up with a complete system so quickly based on existing mature technology."

Hou Peng monitored various data on the screen:

"As for emergency products, the first factor is reliability. Being able to complete the task reliably is considered a great success. Because of the tight time, these devices were put into use directly after theoretical simulation and simple trial operation."

The spacecraft has docked steadily with the space station. In order to reduce the weight as much as possible, the space station is not equipped with a life support system. Hou Peng is wearing a spacesuit. He wants to enter the space station to check all the equipment. After everything is normal, he will put the spacecraft on board.

The equipment box is transferred to the aircraft in the landing module.

Lu Yuanzhou was remotely operating another spacecraft in orbit from the cockpit, which was the orbiter of an unmanned cruise aircraft. Not all of the 24 drones launched previously to search for extraterrestrial probes were released, but were left behind.

Two as backup. Now all he has to do is to put them into the upper atmosphere of Venus, go to the location where the suspected alien probe was last found in the upper atmosphere of Venus, detect whether it is still there, and prepare for subsequent landings.

Be a guide.

An hour later, Hou Peng returned to the spacecraft through the airlock from the space station. Panting, he took off his space helmet and gloves:

"The landing module, atmospheric aircraft and shuttle are all fine. The equipment has also been transferred to the landing module aircraft and can enter the atmosphere of Venus at any time."

"Okay!" Lu Yuanzhou replied.

At this moment, the spacecraft's computer made a beeping alarm sound, which was the sound of the drone's detector discovering the target. Everyone gathered in the cockpit and stared at the largest screen.

"It is still at the same position as last time, and the height, position and detection reflection properties have not changed at all." Lu Yuanzhou said.

Lin Tianyu looked at the bright spot on the screen:

"The altitude at which it is located should have relatively intense atmospheric convection movements, but it has not moved at all. I speculate that its power system is still operating."

Wei Xu nodded and agreed with Lin Tianyu’s point of view:

"Senior Brother Tianyu is right. Fortunately, Teacher Zhou prepared a set of signal shielding curtains and disassembly equipment for us. Otherwise, we would not know how to start. It is very likely that we will not get what we need, and the alarm device will be triggered.

Our actions are exposed.”

Xia Lan said to Lu Yuanzhou:

"Can you switch to live video?"

Lu Yuanzhou nodded and operated on the screen. A picture taken by the cruise drone camera appeared on the screen, and the world with stacked orange clouds appeared on the screen. A red frame locked a person in the clouds.

It's actually hard to see whether there is anything in an area.

Lu Yuanzhou kept zooming in and out of the video:

"The cruise drone is a fixed-wing aircraft and cannot hover close to the target. It can only hover and track at a long distance. Therefore, the video shooting distance is far away, and we cannot see his appearance in the video." Lu Yuanzhou said.

Xia Lan stared at the orange world for a while:

"It looks like the weather conditions at this location are pretty good."

Hou Peng worked on another screen and brought up a satellite cloud image:

"Well...how should I put it, the weather there is really pretty good right now. The height of the top of the cloud layer is 55 kilometers, just below the target location.

But not far away, there is a super cyclone with a diameter of more than 1,000 kilometers moving towards our target location. It is a storm mixed with sulfuric acid rain that is several times faster than the wind speed of a typhoon. In about 8 hours, the edge of the storm will

It will pass through the target area."

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other, and Xia Lan asked:

"How long will it take for the storm to completely pass through the target area?"

Hou Peng shook his head and said:

"It's hard to say. We don't have a complete weather system for Venus. It is estimated that it will take 15 days to a month at the fastest. Moreover, the atmosphere of Venus is thick and hot, and the climate conditions are very unstable. Next time, it will be like a cloud-height weather.

It’s hard to predict the situation, so we can only wait.”

Xia Lan frowned and looked at the star map on another screen. The orbits of Venus and the Earth were moving away, which also meant that the longer they stayed on Venus, the longer it would take to return.

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Although the supply system on the spacecraft is loaded according to the longest orbital distance, the longer you stay on this strange planet, the more variables there will be. The most important thing is that humans don't have a minute or a second to waste now. Their

The mission is too important. What's more, the space vehicles they carry are all emergency products, and their long-term reliability has not been verified in practice.

She looked at the violent atmosphere of Venus with firm eyes:

"Then we should go down as soon as possible!"

Wei Xu also looked at the sea of ​​orange clouds that could be clearly seen below him:

"According to our repeated simulations on the ground, we can complete the operation in up to four hours, so there should be no problem."

Everyone looked at each other, and Lu Yuanzhou finally said:

"Then let's set off immediately!"