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The first year of the Milky Way, December 19th, Blue Star time.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Fang Tianbo and Masashi Kishimoto, who were woken up by the alarm clock, started their day's work.

This time, in addition to the 510 tons of mass used to transport artificial satellites, they were left with a carrying capacity of 1,490 tons, of which 1,030 tons were components for 21 standard cabins.

The remaining 460 tons of mass include 50 tons of living materials, a 48-ton Mars landing spacecraft, a 26-ton Mars ground standard cabin, a batch of 41-ton detectors, and the remaining 295 tons are all various equipment and repair parts.

The second task of the first team of the Space Expeditionary Force is to build a Mars synchronous orbit space station. This modular space station construction technology is already very mature.

Fang Tianbo and Masashi Kishimoto are both familiar with operating space work robots and splicing together parts of standard cabins. No. 9527 is also helping to build the space station.

They are very fast and can build a standard cabin in an average of one hour. By around 18:12 in the evening, the Mars synchronous orbiting space station consisting of 9 standard cabins has begun to take shape.

19:24, Fang Tianbo held a brief meeting.

Fang Tianbo looked around the crowd and said: "Now that part of the Mars synchronous orbit space station has been initially completed, our work will be distributed again starting tomorrow. Yuri and Commissioner Lin will continue to take turns to guard the cockpit of the Sun Chaser, and develop and monitor the orbit around Mars and the Blue Star. Communications work.”

"No problem." Yuri replied.

lei also nodded in agreement.

"Official history, you and the 9528 robot continue to build the Mars synchronous orbit space station." Fang Tianbo continued to give instructions.

"Hi!" Masashi Kishimoto nodded and replied.

"I will start detailed exploration work on Phobos and Deimos starting tomorrow."

Exploring Mars is their third mission. Exploring Mars involves not only exploring Mars itself, but also its two natural satellites.

December 20th.

The Phobos exploration work chaired by Fang Tianbo has officially begun. Two geological satellites have already surrounded the big potato Phobos.

There are two "photography" instruments (called sensors) on the geological satellite. One is a reflective beam tube TV camera, which is similar to a TV camera; the other is a multispectral scanner that can separate the electromagnetic waves reflected from the ground by wavelength. record it.

The two geological satellites deployed on Phobos will acquire electromagnetic wave information in various bands radiated or reflected by ground objects, and then send this information to the Sun Chaser spacecraft.

Since each object has different reflections in different spectral frequency bands, after the spacecraft receives the satellite signal, the supercomputer of the Sun-Run spacecraft will process and interpret the information based on the spectral characteristics of various materials, so as to Get detailed information on the characteristics, distribution and status of various types of resources.

Phobos is an irregular satellite with a very small size. Phobos is only about 26.6 kilometers × 22.2 kilometers × 18.6 kilometers in size. It is shaped a bit like a potato. It is 9378 kilometers away from the center of Mars on average and 9378 kilometers away from the surface of Mars. About 6,000 kilometers.

In addition, there is a huge meteorite impact crater on Phobos, which is like a big potato being bitten. This meteorite impact crater is called Stickney impact crater.

Fang Tianbo looked at the data fed back by the geological satellite's spectrometer and said to himself:

"The Phobos feedback spectrum contains moderately strong absorption at UV wavelengths below 0.4-0.5 microns, with no obvious features but a slight reddening at longer wavelengths. And around 3 microns there is A feature called water absorption, which indicates the presence of water on Phobos. It is clearly a C-type asteroid."

So-called C-type asteroids. Generally, the spectrum of this type of asteroid is very similar to that of carbonaceous chondrites (CI and CM types). In addition to not containing hydrogen, helium and volatiles, their chemical composition is similar to that of the sun and primitive Much like the Solar Nebula, there are also hydrated (water-bearing) minerals.

Fang Tianbo observed the spectral feedback from Stickney Crater and said to himself in surprise: "Hey! There is a metal reaction in the center of the crater. It seems that the meteorite that hit Phobos is an S-type (stone-iron composition) Asteroids or M-type (iron-nickel composition) asteroids, but the specific situation still requires landing exploration."

After completing the remote sensing detection work of the geological satellite, he launched a small sampling spacecraft to Phobos. The spacecraft used an ion engine to easily land on the surface of Phobos. Because Phobos is too small, its gravity is almost negligible. .

The sampling spacecraft selected 6 locations on Phobos and took 10 samples from each location. These drilled samples were quickly sent to a laboratory cabin on the Mars synchronous orbiting space station. This cabin was isolated from the space station. .

The isolation of the sampling and laboratory chambers from the space station or spacecraft is also a strict requirement of safety regulations. After all, no one knows that these asteroids do not contain deadly viruses or bacteria that humans are difficult to immunize against, so all materials collected from alien planets must be Carry out isolation treatment.

Human workers or scientists in science fiction movies have direct and close contact with alien materials of unknown origin. This behavior is strictly prohibited in the Human Revolution Alliance. After all, this kind of behavior may bring unpredictable risks.

Soon the laboratory began to conduct comprehensive and detailed laboratory analysis of these samples.

"All samples generally contain crystal water, and the content is quite high. The highest content is 31.6%, the lowest is 4.3%, and the average water content is about 18.71%."

"The central area of ​​Stickney Crater contains 14% to 16% silica, 34% to 35% calcium carbonate, about 3% crystal water, 27% to 28% iron oxide, and about 3% Nickel, and the remaining 10% are other inorganic salt impurities. It seems that the asteroid that hit Phobos to form the Stickney crater was an S-type stone-iron asteroid."

"No biological reaction has been detected. This is good news." Fang Tianbo said to himself while flipping through the test report.

In the next week, Fang Haibo successively completed the preliminary detection of Phobos and Deimos, launched a landing spacecraft to the equatorial region of Mars, and established a Mars advance base.

Masashi Kishimoto and 9527 also completed the construction of the Mars synchronous orbit space station.

The first year of the Milky Way, December 28th, Blue Star time.

"Yuri sent a message to Blue Star that the Sun Chaser spacecraft will depart back to Blue Star at 10:20 this morning." Fang Haibo ordered.

"Received." Yuri quickly operated the communication system to send a message to Blue Star. After about 17 minutes, the reply communication from Blue Star came through.

"Captain, the New Chang'an Space Station has agreed to our return to Blue Star."

"Okay, everyone gets in position and enters the anti-load cabin."

The four of them entered the life-sustaining and load-bearing cabin. As soon as the time was up, the Sun Chaser spacecraft left the Mars synchronous orbiting space station and headed for a distant starry sky.

At this time, the distance between Mars and Blue Star has become larger, reaching about 143 million kilometers, which is more than 10 million kilometers farther than before.

However, for a sub-light speed ship, it is only more than two hundred seconds longer. After the Sun Chaser, which is equipped with a condensed matter shield, passes through the acceleration stage, it increases its speed to a cruising speed of 13.8% of the speed of light.

Around 4816 seconds, the Sun Chaser spacecraft entered the deceleration stage, which also marked that it was about to enter the Blue Star region.