Interstellar Industrial Age

At 6 o'clock the next day, the moon base is here.

The astronauts woke up one after another from their sleep.

"Liu Hanwen, how are you sleeping?"

Kong Zhifei looked at Liu Hanwen who was moving his body and asked with a smile.

"It's okay~ It doesn't seem to be different from the earth."

Liu Hanwen said with a smile.

"I didn't sleep well all night, and I was very excited, especially when I thought that I was on the moon, I couldn't sleep at all."

Kong Zhifei shook his head helplessly.

"Haha, me too~"

At this time, Fang Bo also came over, opened the window, and suddenly saw the blue planet in the void.

"Have breakfast~"

Captain Li Haiyang's voice came from the loudspeaker in the room.

Since there is no air on the moon, sound transmission is a problem.

If the astronauts go out and walk, whether it is wearing a space suit or driving a lunar rover, etc., there is a communication system on it, but it is nothing.

Among the lunar bases, each room of the lunar base has a separate system, which is an independently operated system. In order to facilitate communication and communication, each room is equipped with a dialogue system.

The other room belongs to the female astronauts. The four female astronauts are very virtuous at this time, and they are cooking meals. Of course, these meals have been prepared in advance, and they only need to be heated in a microwave oven.

Different from the shabby American people who landed on the moon half a century ago, the food that astronauts ate at that time did not take into account the taste at all, all of which were high-energy things, made into toothpaste, and squeezed out when eating.

The taste is very poor, but eating a little is enough to meet the energy needs.

Li Haiyang and the others are naturally completely different, with 18 different flavors and various dishes, and even this time, they also brought a lot of vegetable seeds.

In the future, a vegetable base will be built on the lunar base, so that astronauts, scientists, etc. who live and work on the moon can eat fresh vegetables.

"Eat~eat~"

Shen Yue is a female astronaut,

They greeted everyone to eat with a smile, and after eating, they still had a lot of tasks to do.

The construction of the lunar base, the exploration of surrounding resources, and the collection of lunar soil and rock samples are all busy.

At 10 o'clock, the two spaceships have to return to the earth, so the real remaining working time is only 3 hours, and the time is relatively tight.

Of course, this time, not everyone will go back. Eight astronauts will stay on the moon to continue building a lunar base and explore the surrounding resources.

After eating breakfast in a hurry, the eighteen people have a clear division of labor and start to get busy.

Some people continue to build lunar bases, while others go to explore the surrounding resources, and some go to collect lunar soil and rock samples, etc.

Li Haiyang, Liu Hanwen, Kong Zhifei, and Fang Bo are members of the resource exploration team, each driving a lunar rover toward the four directions.

Desolate and desolate, the cratered lunar surface is covered with rocks of all sizes.

The lunar rover driven by Liu Hanwen walked very slowly on the desolate land.

The engineering vehicle carries a variety of high-tech detection equipment, and just by walking from the surface of the moon, you can roughly know which minerals are nearby.

"DiDi! DiDi!"

The detection equipment on the lunar project is constantly running and working. All data and information are simultaneously transmitted to the control and command center on the earth side. At the same time, Liu Hanwen is also chatting with other teammates. Here on the desolate lunar surface, If you don't chat, everything is silent, and the whole person will feel panic.

"Tsk tsk, the resources on the moon are really too rich. I found a giant ilmenite here, and the preliminary detected reserves are as high as 5 billion tons, which is comparable to the giant iron ore in Panzhihua, Huatianfu. This is just a The preliminary detection results, and according to the detection data, show that the iron ore is still open-pit and the iron content is very high."

Fang Bo's voice came from the communication headset.

"Titanium and iron are the most widely distributed on the moon. There are 22 main lunar seas distributed on the lunar surface, of which 19 are distributed on the front side of the moon (the side facing the earth)."

"There are a lot of lunar sea basalts in these lunar seas. The lunar sea basalt is rich in iron and titanium. The volume of basalt filled in the 22-month sea is about 1010 cubic kilometers, and the lunar sea basalt is rich in titanium, iron, etc. resource."

"The area chosen by our lunar base itself has been explored by scientists using resource exploration satellites in advance. There are rich mineral resources around, and the discovery of an iron ore is nothing at all."

At this time, the captain Li Haiyang also followed. Obviously, he had also learned the relevant information in advance, and he was very clear about it.

"Haha, a major discovery, I have discovered the Kerklip Rock here."

At this time, there was another excited voice coming from the ear, which was Kong Zhifei's voice.

The Kripp rock he mentioned is the name of a rock that is widely distributed on the moon and is one of the three major rock types in the lunar highlands. It is named for its richness in potassium, rare earth elements and phosphorus.

The thorium- and uranium-rich Krippite is covered by the late lunar basalt, and the Krippite mixes and forms high thorium and uranium material, which is estimated to be 10 to 20 kilometers thick.

The total resources of rare earth elements in the Kripp rock in the storm ocean area are about 22.5 billion tons to 45 billion tons. The rich thorium and uranium contained in the Kripp rock are also one of the important mineral resources for human development and utilization of lunar resources in the future. .

"How quickly did you discover rare earths, but this is nothing, rare earths are still very widely distributed on the moon, and the Ocean of Storms area is one of the areas with the largest amount of Kripp rocks, so finding rare earths is nothing. ."

"Let's see who can discover rarer resources first."

At this time, Fang Bo's voice also sounded, and everyone was very happy to play the treasure hunt game with each other.

"There is helium 3 everywhere, and the distribution of helium 3 in the soil of this moon is too rich."

Liu Hanwen looked at the data that kept appearing in the computer, what resources the lunar engineering rover had passed through, and the detectors on the engineering rover would be automatically displayed on the computer.

Helium 3, the lunar soil is rich in helium 3, while there is almost no helium 3 on Earth, the content of helium 3 in the lunar soil is estimated to be 715,000 tons.

Helium fusion using deuterium and helium 3 can be used as an energy source for nuclear power plants. This fusion does not produce neutrons, is safe and pollution-free, and is an easy-to-control nuclear fusion. It can not only be used in ground nuclear power plants, but also especially suitable for space navigation.

Due to the large amount of helium-3 reserves on the moon, it is undoubtedly a snowfall for the earth, which is in short supply of energy in the future. However, based on the current technological level of the earth, the controllable nuclear fusion technology has not yet been mastered. The most abundant source of helium-3 is useless at all.

However, the resource of helium 3 is still very important. In the future, once mankind masters the controllable nuclear fusion technology, a large amount of helium 3 will be needed, but this resource is not available on the earth, and the moon is rich in helium 3. Resources have naturally become the focus of competition among the world's major powers.

But now, only Huaxia has built a lunar base on the entire moon. It can be said that it has taken the most advanced, the moon is so big, if you want to occupy that piece, you can occupy it where there are abundant resources. Anyway, there is no one right now. fight with yourself.

"Haha, I found a large copper mine here with reserves of hundreds of millions of tons."

Another voice sounded in my ears. This was Kong Zhifei's voice. The resources on the moon are too rich. In many cases, there are not only one or two resources in a place, but many resources are densely and concentratedly distributed.

The resources on the moon are too rich, and the area of ​​​​the Ocean of Storms selected by the scientists has been explored by resource exploration satellites in advance, and it is definitely a very fertile area.

Looking at the data in the computer, Liu Hanwen can detect good minerals everywhere, such as iron ore, copper ore, titanium ore, rare earth ore...

All kinds of mineral deposits are very rich, with amazing reserves and easy mining. Many of them are open pit mines, which are very valuable for mining.

"After searching for a long time, have you found gold and silver or something?"

Liu Hanwen looked at the data in the computer and thought about it carefully, as if something was missing.

What is the most exciting, of course, is gold, because its value is extremely high, and it is sold by the gram. If you can find a gold mine, you must be rich.

"Gold and silver are both precious metals, even if they are extremely rare on Earth. In the early stage, we used resource exploration satellites to explore the surface of the entire moon, but we did not find the existence of these two things."

The earphones reminded Li Haiyang's voice. Although the moon is extremely rich in resources, gold and silver have never been found.

"No, even if the moon itself has no gold, it has been hit by countless meteorites in the hundreds of millions of years, and there is no gold in this meteorite?"

Liu Hanwen expressed his doubts. Gold is a good thing. If a gold mine is found, or one with large reserves, then the country will issue it. The mining of gold mines alone is enough to greatly promote the development of the lunar mining industry. .

"What you said also makes sense. There must be some, but there shouldn't be many, and there is not much value~"

Li Haiyang thought for a while and nodded in agreement. Gold is rare on earth, but not necessarily in space. Everything is hard to say.

While chatting with his teammates, Liu Hanwen was driving the moon on the moon to show continuous exploration. From time to time, he would find a place to drill holes, collect some underground rock and soil samples, or drill some large rocks into pieces to check the inside of the rocks. Is there any gem or something?

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