This civilization is very strong, but the technology tree is a bit crooked

"What doubts?"

Chen Yi stood up, took the detection image from Qin Xiaoyu's hand, and looked at it carefully.

This is an image file similar to a CT scan.

Under the joint detection of 36 Mars probes.

The formation and core of the entire Mars seem to be cut into countless parts, and all the mysteries are clearly visible in the image.

"This is."

Chen Yi frowned as he looked at the stratum on Mars displayed in all the images.

"There is a problem with the stratigraphic structure of Mars."

The structure of a planet is like an onion, with countless structures.

The innermost is the core and core, then the mantle, and then the crust.

Among them, the crust, because of the geological deposition caused by planetary movement, often forms countless geological layers.

Although the core of Mars has cooled, there has been no strong geological activity in the past few billion years.

However, the geological layers formed 3 billion years ago, as well as the cooled mantle, core, etc., will still remain in their original structure.

The conditions of these structures often contain the last information of Mars.

But now, in Chen Yi's eyes, there was a big problem with the stratum structure of Mars.

"The entire Olympus Mons, the deep stratigraphic structure is completely uplifted."

"On the other side of the planet corresponding to Mount Olympus, the stratigraphic structure is in a state of point-like depression and collapse."

Chen Yi signaled Xuannv to build all the images into a three-dimensional model and display it on the projector next to her.

Now, the situation is very clear.

The highest peak in the solar system, the 21-kilometer-high Olympus Mons, was not formed naturally by the crustal activity of the planet at all, but was formed by a huge impact.

A huge impact force penetrated the formation of Mars.

The huge energy even caused the surface of Mars on the other side to bulge high, eventually forming this majestic and magnificent Mount Olympus, the highest peak in the solar system.

"Scientists have analyzed that 3 billion years ago, Mars was hit by an asteroid, which completely destroyed the structure of the planet and triggered global volcanic eruptions."

"The volcanic eruption spewed out the iron-rich mantle material and core material in the molten state inside."

"These substances have been oxidized for hundreds of millions of years, forming the red surface that is now all over the planet."

"At the same time, the loss of high-temperature mantle material and core material also led to the rapid cooling of the planet."

"In the end, the core of Mars stopped functioning, the planet's magnetic field disappeared, and the entire planet died completely."

"To cause such a result, the mass and volume of the impacting asteroid must not be small, but..."

Chen Yi looked at the stratigraphic image of Mars.

In addition to the high uplifted strata of Mount Olympus, there are strata corresponding to deep depressions and collapses on the other side.

Although the stratum structure in the rest of the area is riddled with holes, every wound and hole is a trace left over from the volcanic eruption.

But the structure of the strata remained largely intact, and it did not look like it was left by an asteroid impact.

"If it was an asteroid impact that could create such a huge Mount Olympus on the other side of the planet, then the structure of the entire planet would be smashed to pieces, and it would not be said to remain largely intact."

"This performance is more like being hit by a high-speed object with huge energy."

"Because the speed is too fast and the energy is concentrated, the huge energy penetrates the entire planet before it is completely dispersed, creating 21 kilometers on the other side of the planet, the highest Mount Olympus in the solar system."

Chen Yi began to analyze a little bit.

The impact of an asteroid seems to have terrifying energy.

But this energy is based on a huge mass base. In fact, because of the low speed, the energy of the impact will only spread as a whole, and will not penetrate in a point-like manner.

Only the impact of high-speed objects, because energy is built on speed.

Because of the strong speed, the moment of impact, the energy will penetrate the object, forming a point-like penetration.

Image point metaphor.

An asteroid impact is like hitting with a hammer. One hammer hits 50, and the sledgehammer hits down, and the planet is smashed.

Of course, because the mass of the planet is too large, the gravitational attraction attracts each other, even if it becomes smashed, it can be reunited.

And the other is a bullet hit, with a bang, the bullet almost penetrates the planet.

The bullet hole on one side of the planet only left a dot-shaped depression, while the other side formed a high bulge due to the diffusion of energy.

"Brother Yi, you said that Olympus Mons on Mars was formed by the impact of high-speed objects."

"What kind of object can penetrate almost the entire planet to create such a towering mountain?"

Qin Xiaoyu, who was beside him, heard Chen Yi's analysis and asked curiously.

"Such objects are unlikely to have formed naturally."

Chen Yi thought for a while and said, "The only three possibilities I can think of are, have you seen it on Wandering Earth?"

"I've seen it. Brother Yi took me to see the first one." Qin Xiaoyu nodded.

"The first one is an asteroid equipped with a planetary engine, accelerated to a terrifying speed, and hit Mars."

"Because of the global volcanic eruption and billions of years, the traces of the asteroid have been completely covered up and erased."

"The second is that the supernova explosion vaporized the surrounding planets, but the core of some planets was accelerated to a terrifying speed before the vaporization, and after countless years of flight, it happened to hit Mars at that time."

"The last possibility is mass bombs."

"Mass bomb?"

"Yes, an object the size of a fist or a human head is accelerated to infinitely close to the speed of light, and the mass bomb whose inertial mass is increased by hundreds of millions or even billions of times is bombarded from space."

"The huge energy pierced the core of Mars, causing a global volcanic eruption, and at the same time creating a towering Olympus Mons on the other side."

Chen Yi mentioned three possibilities that he could think of.

After finishing speaking, looking at Mount Olympus at the northern latitude of Mars: "Three possibilities, I prefer the analysis of mass bombs.

Because Olympus Mons and the corresponding depression on the other side are not the front side of Mars.

If it is the first two kinds, the impact of the asteroid, the whole Mars will lie down like Uranus, and the rotation axis will also be tilted to an incredible angle.

Only the mass bomb that is infinitely close to the speed of light, because the speed is faster, the energy penetrates the planet before it has time to disperse, so it will not have a great impact on the rotation axis of Mars. "

"Brother Yi, so there was a civilization on Mars before? And it was a super civilization that entered space?" Qin Xiaoyu immediately grasped the point and asked incredulously.

Whether it is the first possibility of accelerated asteroid impact, or the third kind of mass bomb.

These are not natural phenomena, but phenomena of technological civilization.

"It's possible."

"Theoretically, in the period when the magnetic field of ancient Mars has not disappeared, life is very likely to be born, and civilization will be further born."

"Moreover, Mars did not encounter Theia's impact event, and its evolution time is nearly 1 billion years longer than that of Earth."

"In this way, when life was born on Earth, it is very likely that life appeared on Mars and a powerful civilization developed at the same time."

Chen Yi thought of the origin of the moon and the impact of Theia.

This impact can be said to have directly pressed the reset button on the earth that has evolved for hundreds of millions of years.

This coming and going is equivalent to the development and evolution time of Mars being 1 billion years younger than that of the earth.

The evolution of life, the emergence of wisdom, and the birth of civilization are all too accidental.

Dinosaurs have developed for more than 100 million years without lighting up the fireworks of wisdom. It took only a few million years for Homo sapiens to embark on a unique route of wisdom and establish a brilliant civilization.

No one is sure.

In such a distant time, will Mars be the first to give birth to civilization, go to space, and go to the interstellar.

In the end, wars broke out due to internal strife among civilizations or other external factors.

The mass bomb destroyed the core of Mars, and at the same time detonated a global volcanic eruption, throwing out the material in the core and mantle of the earth, creating a red Martian surface today.

PS: Chapter 1, there will be more later