Chapter 57: Landing of the Victory

"Victory, activate!"

The Victory was originally a medium-sized cargo spacecraft, the one that took Yu Yifeng and the others to escape from the earth. It wasn't well-suited for such short journeys, so scientists modified it slightly, adjusting a range of engine parameters as well as landing settings.

Following Yu Yifeng's order, the "Victory" loaded with personnel and supplies immediately rushed out.

A thousand kilometers is not a long journey, but the spacecraft cannot fall vertically downwards, but spirals downwards in a spiral manner.

At this time, on the entire Noah, 50,000 pairs of eyes were staring at the image of the spacecraft almost intently. Everyone was secretly praying and praying, hoping that everything would operate normally.

"The first power zone is about to close, the landing equipment will be turned on in thirty seconds, and the countdown will begin..."

"The reverse jet rocket is on...the spacecraft is decelerating, ready for landing, and the smoothness is 100%..."

"Activate the landing buffer!"

On the TV, you can see the entire landing process, and Yu Yifeng feels slightly nervous. However, this landing technology is simpler than landing on the moon. It should not be particularly difficult for humans.

Only a loud "coaxing" sound was heard, and accompanied by the violent trembling of the screen, five hundred people landed successfully!

Batch after batch of materials also began to be delivered, engineers immediately set up a small base, and reporters began to report on the situation at the scene.

"Hello everyone, my name is Gianna. We have successfully landed, and behind me is the small Mars base that will be built soon. From now on, I will bring you a wonderful journey to Mars..." A female reporter Take the microphone and broadcast live to the camera.

Upon hearing the news, a small cheer erupted from the Noah crowd.

The Victory's carrying capacity is 500 tons, and the 500 passengers are about 30 tons. The remaining 400 tons are all mechanical equipment and daily necessities. It will probably take several trips to transport all the prepared items down.

The scientists also began to get busy. As the general person in charge of this mission, Dr. Roman immediately began to deploy the mission. He divided all the scientists into four groups and conducted geological exploration in four directions. Each group had about 20 people.

The rest were responsible for setting up small bases.

"I think the probability of intelligent life on Mars is very small, and Martians should not exist..." Dr. Roman squatted down in front of the TV and picked up a red sandy rock. "Look, we have explored it several times. No trace of surface biological activity was found.”

"However, the possibility of the existence of microorganisms underground cannot be ruled out... Bacteria from different planets are completely unfamiliar to our human immune system and may be deadly. Therefore, we must do strict biosafety work. "

Then, he said to the four groups below: "The goal of your investigation this time is to obtain first-hand information on Mars, including atmospheric composition, traces of life, and geological composition. You also need to find a flat enough place for the entire Noah The number landed."

After leaving the Noah, these five hundred people felt a strange sense of uneasiness in their hearts, as if the sun in their hearts had gone out, and the warm feeling disappeared from their hearts.

But this sense of uneasiness was deliberately ignored by people. After all, they were not here for tourism, but for scientific investigation.

This mission is inherently a dangerous exploratory mission. It is the first mission for humans to land on an alien planet. No one knows what dangers there are.

Either there is an air leak, or there is an extreme temperature difference, or the base cannot be built, or there is alien life that humans have not discovered... This mission is inherently more dangerous, so many people simply ignore this uneasiness.

A huge excavator started working and dug out a large amount of sand and gravel. It took people two days to dig a basement of about 1,000 square meters here, and then build a small base in the basement.

The Victory spacecraft can also be used as a temporary base. This spacecraft can temporarily house some people.

After the Victory returned again, two small nuclear power reactors were also transported down. Under the debugging of engineers, the nuclear power units began to operate normally, each with a power of about 5,000MW (500,000 kilowatts).

As long as there is electricity, people can create oxygen, water, and almost anything... After all, humans are still very well prepared for the three months of space navigation.

In a small Mars rover, Dr. Roman was concentrating on testing a test tube filled with Martian soil. He found that there was indeed no sign of life activity and no protein was detected, which made him relieved.

Biuret reagent can be used for protein detection, which is very convenient. However, the color of the test tube in Roman's hand did not change at all, indicating that there was no protein in it, and therefore no life...

Indeed, Mars is too cold to have any liquid water. Especially in the Arctic region, the temperature is more than 100 degrees below zero. Cosmic radiation can directly shine on the ground. In this case, it is difficult for life to survive.

Immediately afterwards, Roman began to test the composition of the atmosphere.

"Atmospheric composition: 95.32% carbon dioxide, 2.7% nitrogen, 1.6% argon, 0.13% oxygen, 0.08% carbon monoxide, 210 ppm water vapor, 100 ppm nitric oxide, 15 ppm hydrogen molecules, 2.5 ppm neon, 850 ppb heavy water... the same as the previous test results."

After learning this result, Roman didn't know whether to be happy or unhappy... With such a result, there would definitely be no large organisms, unless they didn't need to breathe. So far, the earth is still the only known planet with life.

"I tested the ten-meter layer of soil that I just dug out, and I didn't see any bacteria."

Another scientist seemed a little disappointed and a little relieved. He said very complicatedly: "Of course, viruses require a higher magnification microscope and need to return to the main laboratory of Noah for testing. However, without protein, there should be no life..."

He also shook his head. According to existing knowledge, the vitality of microorganisms is very tenacious. If a planet has microorganisms... there will at least be traces, right?

Now that there is no trace at all, it can only mean that microorganisms are very likely to not exist...

"Well, no matter what, before it is thoroughly confirmed that Mars does not contain life, it is not allowed to relax biochemical control." Roman said seriously. After learning that there is no life on Mars, he has an indescribable sense of heaviness...

Is the Earth lonely? Is life rare? Is wisdom rare or common? Why do humans rarely observe traces of intelligent life? Except for the inexplicable alien spacecraft Noah, humans have hardly observed traces of alien life. Why is this so?

People know nothing about the universe. People can only blindly guess the entire universe. They don't know, they don't know anything...

Roman doesn't know whether he hopes that there is life on Mars or not...

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