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#267 - Landing on Mars

"It's landing, it's landing!"

"The signal is finally here, wow, is this the Martian surface? It's so clear!"

"Watching a Mars landing live for the first time, this is too difficult. Red, desert, wild, perfect for filming a Mars sci-fi movie. Seriously, when are they going to film 'The Martian' on location on Mars? That would be awesome."

"Don't even think about it. It's hard enough to get equipment to Mars, let alone film a movie there."

"Exactly. Filming 'The Martian' on Mars would turn into a real interstellar rescue mission in minutes, a disaster documentary."

"Hey, didn't they say that the Americans are really filming a sci-fi movie on the space station? In the future, sci-fi movies will really be filmed on location."

"What's the point of calling it a sci-fi movie if it's filmed on location? Wouldn't that make it a reality film?"

"I feel that humanity officially entering the space age depends on Navigator. With the orbital shuttle, it's getting easier and easier to enter space, and there are also super-large space inn cabins. If the cost of filming in space is less than special effects production, it might really change the way sci-fi movies are made."

"Seriously, after the orbital spacecraft, Earth's near-Earth orbit is nothing to humanity. But leaving Earth's near-Earth orbit, even if it's just to the moon, is a big challenge, not to mention Mars."

"Let's see next year. Aren't both Tianxia and America scheduled to have manned lunar landings next year? Let's take it slow..."

"Slow down? Things are different now than before. Aliens are here, and interstellar war could start at any time. We must advance to Mars! We must take Mars!"

"Humanity's current technology is still not good enough. Development takes time, and there's no use in rushing. Let's look at today's 'Pathfinder' unmanned exploration module and see how well it lands!"

"If you ask me, this should be a global collaboration. How long has it been, and why isn't there any news about joint action by various countries? What time is it? Humanity is still fighting among itself. Damn it, humanity is doomed!"

With hundreds of millions of people watching the live broadcast, the level of chaos in the topics is incomparable to one or two people watching. However, as the landing process progressed, people's topics returned to Mars.

It must be said that landing on Mars is simply too difficult.

The super-long distance causes a very long communication delay, so the data for the Earth control center to control the probe's flight must be injected in advance. Therefore, the timing of the probe's entry into Mars' orbit is very important.

If the entry point is too far from Mars, it cannot be captured by Mars' gravity, and the probe will be "lost" in the solar system.

If the entry point is too close to Mars, it may crash into the Martian atmosphere, just like the spacecraft of those aliens.

This is just entering Mars orbit. If the "Pathfinder" landing module on the current unmanned probe lands on the surface of Mars, the difficulty will be greatly increased.

Because when the probe enters the Martian atmosphere, it is very far from Earth, and the measurement and control signal is very weak. Even when the probe moves to the far side of Mars, it is impossible to accurately determine its orbital parameters from Earth.

It is important to know that after the probe enters the Martian atmosphere, whether its heat protection measures, parachutes, airbags, and buffer rockets can work according to the procedure is the key to a successful landing and must be very precise.

So when there is no way for Earth to help, all operations can only be handed over to the landing equipment itself.

Just like the current "Pathfinder" landing module, after it separated from the front end of the "mother ship", it rushed into the Martian atmosphere at a speed of 21,000 kilometers per hour. Then, within 7 minutes, its speed would be controlled to drop to zero, achieving a safe landing on Mars.

This process is also the most technically difficult and highest failure rate key link in the Mars exploration mission.

When all the viewers watched the Martian surface filmed by the "Pathfinder" module become clearer and clearer, and even saw sand and dust, it meant that the landing module was very close to the Martian surface.

When the audience saw the sand and dust in the picture being blown away radially, it proved that the landing module was about to land.

Then, when the picture suddenly paused, and then quickly approached the ground, and finally the ground no longer approached, it proved that the landing module had successfully landed on Mars.

"Yay!!!!"

"Holy crap, Interstellar Navigator is awesome!"

"It's done, awesome! The largest man-made object on Mars in history has appeared!"

"Doesn't count, the four aliens' spacecraft must be bigger and heavier than this, right?"

"Yes, yes, aliens, aliens, didn't they say to send a plane to find the aliens? Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"That's right, quick, we want to see the aliens. If they are friendly, we will make friends with them. If they are not friendly, the helicopter will crash them to death!"

"I don't know if the Mars helicopter has missiles installed, just blow them up!"

"Haha, I like this idea, just blow them up! We Earthlings are not to be trifled with!"

"What are you fighting for? You just know how to fight all day long. Can't you have a good exchange?"

"What do you know? We must subdue them, and then they won't dare to underestimate us Earthlings!"

"Only Earthlings fight back and forth in the universe. If you check the history of human development, it is a history of war!"

"We want peace!"

"Yes, nuclear peace!"

"Are you guys talking about the same thing?"

Ahem, tens of billions of people are watching the live broadcast, you know.

Mars is the planet in the solar system that is most similar to Earth and the second closest in distance. Therefore, it has become the most studied planet by humans other than Earth.

Many experts have said that exploring Mars is of great significance for studying the origin and evolution of life on Earth, understanding the climate, geology, and resources of Mars, and establishing a second human home on Mars.

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If one day humanity suffers a catastrophic disaster due to too many people on Earth, depletion of energy, or being hit by other planets, they can immigrate to the transformed Mars.

As for how long it will take for humans to immigrate to Mars, experts say that because Mars is far from Earth and Mars itself is very different from Earth, many key technologies need to be overcome to immigrate to Mars.

Given the current level and speed of technological development, optimistically, it may take at least 100 years.

Some scientists conservatively estimate that it will take 800 years.

Some pessimists even conclude that it will never be possible.

The project of transforming a planet is too big and too difficult, especially Mars, which is not particularly suitable for human survival.

With that transformation time and technology, humans may have found a more suitable planet to live on and started interstellar voyages.

But in any case, Mars must be explored and developed, because it is not only a milestone for humans to go to a farther starry sky, but also an important base and springboard for humans to go to deep space.

And now, the safe landing of the "Pathfinder" landing module is the beginning of this stage.

Although humans have been exploring Mars for some years and have launched many probes on it, even some rovers weigh more than one ton, it is still insignificant to Mars.

And the exploration distance is extremely limited.

Although there was the first Mars helicopter a few months ago, the exploration distance is still limited, because that Mars helicopter is too small.

Calling it a helicopter is a bit of a disdain for real helicopters. It's just a flying camera.

Of course, everyone's technology is accumulated little by little. No one can open up like Navigator Company as soon as they come up.

Back then, the starting point of Peacock Country's Mars exploration was just sending a Mars orbit... camera "thousands of miles away".

The total weight of the probe is about 1.3 tons, the fuel is about 0.85 tons, and the real scientific research equipment, that is, the effective payload is 15 kilograms.

The situation at Interstellar Navigator Company is different. Since the company was born, they have not done much technical experimentation. It can be said that it is very contrary to the normal process of technological development.

This has also caused many people to suspect that Navigator Company has a more secret research center.

It's not even a suspicion, it's a certainty, otherwise those technologies couldn't have popped up out of thin air.

I'm back. Family chores don't seem like much, but when you get busy, they never end. The updates these days haven't been very good. I'm resuming updates today.

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