Military Technology

As the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol rover was deployed and self-inspection completed after landing, various scientific research and detection tasks began immediately.

First, the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle will drill the deep surface with its mechanical arm on the ground. Then it will pull out a lunar soil and geological detector from the load frame of the vehicle, and then plant it into the drilled hole. In the cave.

The lunar soil and geological probe was immediately activated, and the top of the lunar soil and geology probe showed that it had opened a small solar cell sail. This solar cell sail can provide sufficient working power for the probe. Keep it running for a long time.

In addition, it has an antenna sticking out. In addition to being able to interconnect with other lunar soil and geological detectors, this antenna can also feed back and transmit various detected data to the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle.

It can even send relevant signals to orbiters in the sky. This is definitely not possible on Earth, because the power is too low, and the ionosphere in the atmosphere will reflect back part of the signal, and it is easily affected by weather. But on the moon, there is no atmosphere, and there is no refraction and absorption by dust in the air, so the transmission of electromagnetic signals is extremely smooth.

As for the deep lunar soil drilled by the robotic arm probe, samples were also collected in batches by the robotic arm. Some of these samples will be sent directly to the experimental cabin of the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol vehicle for analysis and research, and the other part will be put into special sealed bags, sealed, coded, and then Go to the space previously vacated by extracting the lunar soil and geological detectors.

The probe will collect and archive these lunar soil samples from various locations on the moon, and then wait until the appropriate time in the future to bring them back by subsequent lunar probes.

As for the experimental cabin on the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol rover, it is actually a small laboratory. It is a sealed space with a test bench for placing samples in the middle. Surrounding the test bench are various Scientific research instruments and equipment include multispectral electron microscopes, elemental analyzers, and a series of other instruments and equipment.

The main purpose of this laboratory or experimental cabin is to analyze these collected lunar samples to detect and analyze the composition of the soil on the lunar surface, especially the mineral elements in the soil, water, etc.

In the small conference room, Wu Hao and the others were staring at the microscopic photos sent back from the laboratory on the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol vehicle on the big screen, and then listened to the experts' excited introductions. .

This is a high-magnification micrograph. The photo shows some soil particles, which are very fine. They contain various substances and have various rich colors. The surface of the moon is not all gray as we see from the photo. .

The person they were introducing to them was an old man in his sixties, with some gray hair, but very energetic. The old man's name was Zhang Qutong, a professor in the field of geochemistry at Jiaotong University, and a special expert invited by Wu Hao and the others. , specifically responsible for this lunar exploration project.

For such a research project, Zhang Qutong readily agreed. Not only did he not mention any other conditions, he also enthusiastically took his doctoral students to actively participate in the entire project. In addition to Zhang Qutong and several of his doctoral students, there are also other related experts and professors, as well as some young researchers specially recruited by Wu Hao and others.

Together, these people formed a laboratory under Haoyu Aerospace specializing in the exploration of cosmic matter and extraterrestrial planets. Wu Hao and the others gave this laboratory a very romantic name, called Star Laboratory.

After the "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol and exploration vehicle carried out its first exploration and lunar soil collection and experimental analysis data was transmitted back, it was immediately taken to Zhang Qu and others for research and analysis.

Although the research is still continuing, some results have been achieved, and Wu Hao and the others came here specifically to listen to their relevant work reports this time.

"Everyone, please see, this is a microscopic magnified photo of the 001 lunar soil sample collected by our "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol rover at the landing site. These are the components of the lunar soil on the surface in the photo .”

Under the operation of one of Zhang Qutong's doctoral students, the breakthrough on the big screen was changed to a darker microscopic magnified photo of a lunar soil sample.

"This is a microscopic magnified photo of the lunar soil sample collected by our "Wangshu" intelligent lunar surface patrol rover at a position of 50 centimeters in the hole after drilling."

As he spoke, two microscopic magnified photos of lunar soil samples were displayed side by side on the big screen.

Zhang Qutong then walked to the big screen and introduced to everyone: "The substances in these two lunar soil samples are basically the same. We have detected very rich substances from these two lunar soil samples, the most abundant of which is lunar soil." In terms of rock composition, these moon rocks are a bit like weathered basalt, with relatively coarse particles, as if they were formed after high temperature and high pressure.

And this can also prove that the sea of ​​​​qi here is an ancient crater. The high pressure and high temperature formed by the meteorites falling down caused these lunar rocks to fragment and change their characteristics.

Of course, we do not rule out that these are components formed after the fragmentation of volcanic rock materials from the moon's interior that were brought out by volcanic eruptions due to meteorite impacts. "

Zhang Qutong is indeed engaged in scientific research, and his words are so impeccable that no one can find anything wrong with him.

As for Zhang Qutong, seeing everyone nodding, he also continued to introduce excitedly: "Except for the coarser basalt particles, the most numerous lunar soil samples are quartz particles. The white and transparent ones in the photo are quartz. , accounting for about 40% of the entire soil sample."

The lunar soil is rich in quartz. This is not surprising to everyone, because this has been confirmed by previous lunar explorations by various countries. Quartz is not a precious mineral. It is everywhere on the earth. To put it bluntly, it is sand.

But this kind of sand is the raw material for many materials and even many products on the earth, such as the glass used in every household, and polycrystalline silicon and monocrystalline silicon ingots made by smelting quartz. These silicon ingots are one of the important raw materials for manufacturing solar panels and chips.

It is definitely unrealistic to manufacture chips on the moon, and Wu Hao has never thought about it that way. He focuses on the first two uses, using quartz to make glass and quartz to make solar panels.

Both of these will play a very crucial role in the future construction of lunar scientific research stations and even lunar cities. It can be said that it is related to the success or failure of future exploration missions.