Chapter 1371 The Mysteriously Missing Crack?

mid-April.

A paper signed by the research institution's Ascension Project Office was published in the latest issue of "Future".

Mysterious geological structures discovered on Mars!

Earthquake cracks mysteriously disappeared overnight!

Once this paper was published, it immediately attracted widespread attention from the international community.

People's understanding of Mars has always been that it is a dead desert planet without a complete ecosystem and no violent geological activities. Instead, it's just raging red sand and rugged landscapes eroded by dust storms over billions of years in ancient geological times.

However, this discovery undoubtedly subverted people's inherent impression of this planet.

Not only are newer geological activities suspected to exist on Mars, but there may even be special geological phenomena that do not exist on Earth!

No one, at least on Earth, has heard of an earthquake crack that has formed and can be repaired overnight and look as if nothing ever happened.

On a well-known international forum for astronomers.

As early as the first time the paper was published, someone translated it into English and reprinted it here, and soon aroused discussions on a mass scale.

"WTF? The geological structure of Mars is still active? Doesn't that mean that it is actually possible to repair the Martian magnetic field and modify the Martian atmosphere?"

"That's right, it's possible, but the possibility is infinitely close to zero. In fact, I'm more curious about how the crack disappeared. Although the picture looks strange, it doesn't look like P."

"Could it be aliens?"

"Haha, this possibility cannot be ruled out! Maybe that crack is actually a passage leading to the civilization of Mars?"

"You have a big brain..."

"I thought of a video I saw somewhere before, a Martian was holding a painting and walking in front of Curiosity...Maybe all we have known about Mars is that the people who live there want us to see of."

"I think that compared to the unreliable views of the Martians, it is more likely that the P-picture is more likely."

The voice of hot discussion is not only in amateur forums, but similar discussions can also be seen on Facebook and Twitter, but the degree is relatively less intense.

Combined with the speculative reports about extraterrestrial civilizations that flooded the media in the early years, many people are speculating whether the earthquake crack is actually a trace left by aliens.

Although this speculation is unreasonable, it is surprisingly popular.

In view of the widespread public concern about this matter, BBC reporters quickly found NASA's high-resolution imaging science laboratory.

As another "Mars authoritative organization" in the world other than the Huaguo Manned Landing Office, although their conditions are still a bit inferior to those of the former that has sent scientific researchers to Mars, they are in terms of theoretical research. The strength cannot be underestimated.

"We are interviewing Professor Kermiton, who graduated from MIT with a major in planetary geology and is currently working in NASA's High-Resolution Imaging Science Laboratory..."

Pointing the camera at Professor Kermiton sitting on the chair, the young reporter continued politely.

"Hello, Professor Kermiton, as an expert in the field of planetary geology, if this seismic structure exists, what do you think it will mean?"

Facing the question from the BBC reporter, Professor Kermiton pondered for a while before speaking.

"That's an interesting question."

"In fact, around April 19, our 'Insight' probe once observed a weak seismic signal on Mars, but the signal was so weak that we not only could not use it to understand If we look at the internal structure of Mars, it is not even possible to determine whether this signal is reliable."

"If the special geological structure discovered by the Huaguo Manned Fire Office was indeed formed in the last hundreds of thousands of years as they said, it will undoubtedly be an unprecedented discovery, and it will even set a new record. What we know about Mars."

After keenly capturing the key information revealed by Professor Kermiton, the young reporter immediately asked, "You mean, this discovery is very important?"

"Importance is beyond doubt."

Reporter: "But now there is still a point of view... Is it possible that those pictures are forged?"

"I can't rule out this possibility, but it's very, very small. In fact, I once doubted it, but I quickly dispelled the idea. After all... since they have all arrived on Mars, they shouldn't be so boring Just kidding on this kind of issue," said this sentence in a half-joking tone, Professor Kermiton pushed the eyes on the bridge of his nose, and continued after a pause, "Actually, from my point of view, compared to that The emergence of a seismic structure, what makes people more concerned is why it suddenly disappeared."

"Regardless of whether it was actually caused by Martians living underground, as rumored, or caused by some kind of special bacteria with a repairing geological structure..."

"I think that if we can figure out the reason, its meaning will be far more important than figuring out how that earthquake crack was formed!"

After the interview.

The edited interview video was released by the BBC in the form of a documentary, and was soon uploaded to YouTube and other video sites, triggering extensive discussions among netizens.

In fact, Professor Kermiton's views are also the mainstream views in the academic circles.

In other words, the earthquake crack should be real, formed by the geological movement on Mars, and judging from the situation in the group of photos, the formation time should not be very long.

It's just that what everyone can't figure out is why such a long crack disappears overnight.

Regarding the reasons for this phenomenon, the opinions of the academic circle are divided into two schools as expected.

One of them holds a relatively conservative view, and believes that the thermal expansion and contraction caused by the huge temperature difference between day and night on Mars may cause the fracturing of the porous rock formation at the level of the fault structure, resulting in the inward repairing contraction of the cracked surface.

Coupled with the landfill effect of wind and sand, the tiny cracks on the surface of the fruit were filled, so that the special fracture structure seemed to disappear overnight.

As for the other school of view, it is biogenic, that is, some kind of iron-eating bacteria living on hematite eroded the hematite veins at the bottom of the fault structure.

In addition, the nearby Huaguo Mars Scientific Research Station drilled and sampled the water source, which triggered the collapse of the structure in the area, and then the disappearance of the fault structure.

However, no matter which side's point of view lacks effective theoretical basis, neither of them can convince the other.

In addition to these conjectures that can barely be justified logically, there are also some conjectures that are completely illogical.

For example, about Martians.

A small number of people believe that pure geological movement can no longer explain this "mysterious" phenomenon, and they can only attribute it to human factors.

And this is probably the masterpiece of the Martians!

Scholars who hold this point of view have even made further promotions based on this point of view.

For example, after losing the protection of the atmosphere, the Martians moved from the surface to the ground, and the crack was not formed by an earthquake at all, but was actually the entrance and exit of the Martians to the surface.

In short, there are many different opinions.

In the face of this incredible phenomenon, everything seems to have become confusing.

And at this moment, something unexpected happened to everyone...