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Lunar Palace II stood steadily on the surface of the moon.

Well, a little crookedly.

Its landing site was still the Bolide crater, the same as where "Changyue II" landed, but the two were 26 kilometers apart.

Not far from them was the permanently shadowed region. According to the Tianxia Aerospace Administration, this crater should contain a large amount of water resources, stored underground in solid form.

Those permanently shadowed areas might even contain lunar surface water ice, not hidden underground, so you wouldn't need to break the surface to mine it; you could just knock off a piece with a hammer and take it back to process into drinking water and rocket fuel.

Of course, these are not yet certain and require more data and support.

The two devices landed here for this reason.

However, humans still know too little about the moon. The data showed that this place should be flat, but unexpectedly there was a 10-degree slope.

Fortunately, the overall area was indeed flat. If the angle were larger, the landing of "Lunar Palace II" would have been dangerous.

In fact, the landing site of "Changyue II" was also uneven, but it didn't need to accommodate people, and its size was small, so it basically didn't affect its use. It just needed to be able to release the two lunar rovers.

"Lunar Palace II" was different. It was very large, and people needed to live inside, as well as a lot of precision instruments, to ensure that researchers could do experiments directly on the moon, so tilting was unacceptable.

Fortunately, the design of "Lunar Palace II" took this problem into account, so the landing gear could be raised and lowered independently.

At the ground control center, they only cheered for a short while and then continued working. Simply landing successfully didn't complete their mission.

"Deploy the solar panels."

Lunar Palace II had batteries because the Bolide crater where it was located only had 80% sunshine, and 20% of the time it was in darkness. Converted to Earth time, that's 27 days for a lunar day and night, and more than 5 days relying on batteries to survive the darkness.

The batteries were rechargeable, and the solar panels would charge them during the day. Theoretically, they could allow four astronauts to consume power at full capacity for 1 week.

Entering general energy-saving mode, they could last for 10 days.

Entering a more… cough, entering extreme energy-saving mode, which only guarantees the astronauts' survival electricity, these stored electricity could last for 3 weeks.

Using the electricity in the batteries, the camera transmitted the picture of the solar panels unfolding back to the ground and broadcast it live.

However, in order to ensure safety and success, everything these unmanned devices did was slow, very slow. It took more than ten minutes to unfold several large solar panels.

The command hall certainly needed to keep an eye on the whole process, but viewers watching the live broadcast might not like to watch it. Fortunately, "Lunar Palace II" had many cameras that allowed viewers to see other places.

For example, watching the beautiful Earth from the moon, live.

Admiring the eight small cars hanging on the cabin wall, which would all be released to roam on the moon in a while.

Looking at the hatch of Lunar Palace II from a relatively oblique angle, this was where astronauts would exit the cabin in the future.

Looking at the moon outside from inside the porthole, quiet, desolate, but it was humanity's hope for going into deep space.

You could even see the internal structure of Lunar Palace II.

Because it was previously in a confidential stage, a suddenly announced new payload, the various structures had not been announced to the outside world.

Now that it had landed on the moon, let you take a good look.

The internal structures of manned spacecraft and space stations have never been kept secret, at least a part of them are not kept secret, and the interior of Lunar Palace II naturally does not need to be hidden from view.

When broadcasting the internal structure, outsiders just watched the excitement, and the barrage kept going, but insiders stared intently, even shielding the barrage.

[This bed is better than the steel frame bed in our school dormitory, I'm so jealous.]

[Wow, independent bathroom, better than my rented house, I'm so jealous too.]

[This porthole is so big, you can see the scenery outside very clearly.]

[What's so good about it? A gray, barren expanse. It's a waste to have such a large porthole, and it's also dangerous. A meteorite would blow it up.]

[Here we go again, the loquat in your yard is ripe, hurry up and ask your dad to pick it for you to eat.]

[I feel that the experimental area is very practical, the equipment is very advanced, more advanced than our school's laboratory.]

[So awesome, so good, I also want to live inside.]

[Hey, wake up, the foreman is looking for you to move bricks.]

[I wonder if Navigator Company will establish its own astronaut department, will it recruit researchers?]

[Actually, I want to know if Lunar Palace II is owned by Navigator, or did the National Aeronautics and Space Administration spend money to buy it?]

[The solar panels are all deployed, and the camera is cutting again. Is it going to launch the cars?]

More than ten minutes later, the solar panels were deployed, and the auxiliary system in Lunar Palace II went online, first adjusting the balance, and then testing the data of each system, all normal.

Since no one lives there yet, some systems and equipment that require astronauts' cooperation are not easy to test, so the last thing left is to release the lunar rovers.

Eight of them!

After completing this project, this Lunar Palace II test mission will be a complete success.

Under the witness of all live broadcast viewers, the eight lunar rovers hanging outside the cabin wall were successively lowered, and then they also unfolded their solar panels, turned on all the equipment, raised their cameras and probes, and began to walk into the distance.

Lunar Palace II had just made a detailed scan of the surrounding ground, with no large pits or large rocks, so the eight lunar rovers could drive a little faster.

When they reached a position, they turned around and took pictures of Lunar Palace II.

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The photos sent back by the eight cars in eight directions were processed and quickly pieced together into a panoramic photo.

Now there were two panoramic photos.

One was a panoramic photo of the landing site taken with Lunar Palace II as the center.

One was a panoramic view of Lunar Palace II taken with eight lunar rovers as the base point.

The viewers were shouting that it was great.

Then, six unmanned lunar rovers slowly drove towards different targets designated by engineers and scientists, and the remaining two gave the picture to two simple consoles.

There were not many things on the console, only a joystick, a few buttons and a full keyboard, but the pictures in their screens were not simple.

The upper right corner of the screen was written with "Car 7" and "Car 8" respectively, corresponding to the remaining two lunar rovers that did not perform the task.

[Damn, no way, are you going to drive a car on the moon from Earth?]

[The signal transmission delay between the earth and the moon is several seconds, can you control it in time if you drive fast?]

[No way, can you drive in this situation?]

[Lunar rovers are so precious, don't play this kind of thing, how much does it cost to roll over or break one?]

[This is not really a matter of money, if you break one, all the tasks will be delayed.]

[Wait, have you forgotten that they released several cars at once, this is what happened just now.]

[This... Damn it, that's right, eight cars were released at once, it doesn't seem too... wasteful to use two for driving tests.]

[Damn, having a lot of cars means you can do whatever you want!]

Lunar rovers are really scarce on the moon. Before last year, there were only seven lunar rovers on the moon.

Including the two unmanned vehicles of the White Bear, the three manned lunar rovers of the American, and the two unmanned vehicles of Tianxia.

The American manned lunar rover is disposable. After driving a few times, it is useless after their people return to Earth. It is considered to be discarded on the moon.

The only one still running is Tianxia's Yutu-2 unmanned lunar rover.

Last year, an American private aerospace company cooperated with a Sakura country private aerospace team to send 1 vehicle, and the lunar rovers on the moon became 8, and 2 were running.

Then there was this year's Changyue II, which sent 2 vehicles at once, making the lunar rovers 10, and 4 were running.

Now, Lunar Palace II has made 8 vehicles at once, directly making the number of lunar rovers on the moon reach 18, of which Navigator Company accounts for 10.

The number of lunar rovers in operation has soared to 12, of which Navigator accounts for 10.

Damn!

Awesome!

Coming back to their senses, the audience looked at Navigator using two lunar rovers to test manual control, they just wanted to say, "Drive as you please! Drive faster!"

They had never seen a lunar rover driving on Earth, it must be very exciting!