Mars, the seventh largest planet in the solar system.
After the ninth planet "Kemin Star" was confirmed, it turned out to be the penultimate asteroid.
Observed from the earth and stars, Mars appears red. In ancient China, it was also called Yinghuo. Yingying is like fire and its brightness often changes.
People find it moving in the sky, sometimes from west to east, sometimes from east to west, the situation is complicated and confusing.
Therefore, ancient people with poor astronomical knowledge called it "Yinghuo", which means "Yingyinghuo, separated from chaos and confusion."
The ancient Romans once worshiped Mars as the god of farming, but the Greeks, who liked aggression and expansion, regarded Mars as a symbol of war and placed their trust in the incarnation of their respective ideals.
The overall scanning data shows that the mass of Mars is about 10 times that of the Moon and 1/10 that of the Earth's stars, and its surface gravity is about 3 times that of the Moon and 1/3 that of the Earth's stars.
Mars is a desert planet with sand dunes and gravel all over the surface.
The atmosphere, dominated by carbon dioxide, is thin and cold, with sand and dust suspended in it, as if frozen.
The geological activity is inactive, and most of the surface landforms were formed in relatively active periods in ancient times.
Mars is densely covered with craters, volcanoes and canyons, and the obvious difference between the northern and southern hemispheres is unique topographic features.
Although it ranks second to last in terms of area, it unexpectedly has the highest Mount Olympus and the largest Mariner Canyon in the solar system.
This situation is elusive, and its formation process cannot be explained for the time being. Perhaps the Earth and Star Administration has already deduced its true origins.
To the south are ancient, cratered highlands, to the north are younger plains.
Both poles have polar caps composed mainly of water and ice, and the dry ice covering them waxes and wanes with the seasons.
No stable liquid water bodies have been found so far. Whether there are ancient underground rivers underground requires in-depth drilling testing.
However, as long as water exists, it can solve the biggest life problem for the expedition team.
Even taking a bath will not become a luxury all year round.
The two golden leopard-print flying saucers turned off the particularly energy-consuming "photon communication" device, opened the real-time communication channel, and established instant communication.
After some discussion, according to the scheduled plan, we first flew to the Mariner (Vall) canyon group, which is 2-7 kilometers deep and 4,000 kilometers long.
In the canyon, they used the flying saucer to scan several medium-sized steel bases, as well as more than a dozen drilling and excavation teams and hundreds of large-scale operating machinery. It was obviously the mining team organized by the Earth and Star Administration.
The number of focused people and machinery in this place is significantly greater than that of other scattered operating teams, indicating that there must be relatively rich metal ores here.
According to the "General Regulations of Earth and Stars" promulgated by the General Administration of Earth and Stars regarding space exploration, the mineral resources in the solar system belong to the Hijin Empire and Earth and Stars.
As long as they do not enter the opponent's space base or within the standard radius of the operating machinery, they can mine resources at will without interfering with each other.
So as soon as the two golden leopard-print flying saucers entered the surface of Mars and were still scanning a circle around Mars, they received public channel information from the Mars Drilling Corps of the Earth-Star Administration.
It contains detailed markings of the standard radius distance icons of dozens of prospecting teams and three space bases, as well as detailed longitude and latitude coordinate data, for information sharing to avoid misunderstandings.
The public channel also lists the paid services that can be provided, and the charging standards are ridiculously high. The price of most projects is about 100-2000 times the market price of Dixing.
It can be seen that the value of materials that have traveled through the stars has skyrocketed countless times after arriving on Mars.
For example, for weather monitoring that must be used, especially sandstorm warnings, such services provided by Dixing cost up to 60,000 m coins per year. Here, you need to pay an annual fee of more than 10,000 m coins.
Calculated based on the Mars revolution of 668.6 Mars days or equivalent to 1.88 Earth star years, an average of 16 Earth star coins need to be paid per Mars day.
Note: If you pay the annual fee in full at once, you can get a discount. Just pay the annual fee of 10,000 land star coins without the big change.
The price of necessary daily necessities, dry and easy-to-store biscuits and other foods has only increased 100 times, because there are basically large reserves.
However, the vegetables grown in the base's greenhouse are priced at 1 Earth Star coin per kilogram, which is equivalent to 2,300m coins, which is 400 times the market price of Earth Star.
There is also water that must be drunk every day, which is also available at a price of 0.1 star coins per kilogram.
This is still the north and south poles of Mars. If water can be obtained locally, if it were replaced by other planets without water sources, it is probably not available at this price.
In addition, the base also provides accommodation services.
For beds on the upper, middle and lower floors, each person pays 5 Earth Star Coins per Martian day.
What’s even more speechless is that this is only the cost of accommodation, and other services such as food and drinking water need to be purchased separately, which is simply a scam.
Looking at the long list of prices on the list, Kamil Strauer smiled helplessly.
When the flying saucer landed on a flat ground, he immediately discussed the next work arrangements with Kajin Stroll and Cab Stroll.
The three brothers are the core backbone of this mission and are responsible for decision-making on all matters.
Melanin is only responsible for the equipment transportation task and does not participate in specific matters. Once the equipment installation is completed, he will return to the Earth Star immediately.
The three brothers discussed for half an hour and made a preliminary decision.
The first is to abandon the installation of meteorological equipment by oneself, and decide to purchase the meteorological services of the Mars Drilling Corps of the Earth and Star Administration, paying a one-time annual fee of 10,000 Earth Star coins for one Mars.
There are 300,000 earth and star coins pre-inserted by the family on Kami's ID card mobile phone, which can be used for point-to-point payment reception on the Mars LAN established by the Earth and Star Administration.
He immediately clicked on the relevant page and selected the meteorological service item.
After clicking to agree to the Meteorological Service Confidentiality Commitment and paying the full amount, you immediately received an encrypted URL.
He entered the initial password and saw the real-time distribution map of meteorological conditions in the entire Mars region. All the data were clear and clear.
Then save the URL and password to avoid forgetting it.
The Mars LAN comes with a team sharing web page, which is equivalent to the most popular Q sharing group on Earth.
As long as the webmaster enters and confirms the mobile phone number of the personal card within the Mars range, he can pull the team members with the corresponding mobile phone number into the web page.
Teams can check weather information at any time, communicate with each other, and perform their respective responsibilities according to work arrangements.
The mobile phone numbers of team members' personal cards are included in the Mars LAN, and instant messaging can also be realized for free, which is equivalent to getting two added values.
Sandstorms on Mars can occur at any time. For safety reasons, keeping track of real-time weather conditions is the top priority.
Ka Mian immediately pulled all members of the team, including Melaine, into the shared web page, and at the same time entered the next main work arrangements and precautions.
The second is to use the self-scanning equipment of two golden leopard-print flying saucers, plus purchase a prospecting instrument from the Earth and Star Administration, to conduct a slow detection of the entire Mariner Canyon, and make corresponding decisions based on the analyzed data.
After half an hour of busy work, the flying saucer took off again, exploring along the Mariner Canyon from east to northwest.
At the eastern end of the valley, the UFO's own scanning equipment observed conclusive signs of flooding.
It is conceivable that the ground was once completely immersed in water. When the flood receded, the surface almost completely collapsed, leaving only isolated square mountains and hills.
The floodwaters eventually poured into the northern lowlands through several outwash channels.
From the eastern end of Mariner Canyon, the floodwater flows through a series of channels and eventually reaches Chris Basin.
Floodwaters gushed out of the depressions, forming the Kaishi Valley outwash channel.
Analysis pictures of the UFO's own scanning equipment and prospecting instruments all show that the entire Mariner Canyon extends like a branch.
Deep in the surface of the tree trunks, several huge areas are occupied by the equipment of the Mars Drilling Corps of the Earth and Planet Administration. Combined with the radius distance icon, there is no place to stay.
It is certain that with the repeated erosion of Mars' ancient floods, the lighter sand and soil were swept downstream.
The heavier metal minerals peeled off during the flushing process and gradually settled deep in the canyon.
After endless years of baptism, the laws of nature have played their only role.
Wash away the dust and show your nobility, leaving only the essence. This is the result of nature's screening.
Hundreds of millions of years from now, when a species of life comes here, they will be able to enjoy the feast of resources naturally deposited on Mars.
An hour later, two golden leopard-print flying saucers completed the exploration of the entire canyon.
The scanning results of the two instruments were almost the same, and the resource distribution map 100 meters below the surface was mapped.
Relatively speaking, the data of the equipment provided by the flying saucer is more accurate. It analyzes and counts the types, contents, proportions and depths of metal elements, forming an analysis and comparison report.
The three brothers couldn't wait to come to the control room, closed the isolation hatch door, looked at the icons and dense data on the big screen, and observed carefully like primary school students.
It took an hour for the three brothers to synthesize the two pieces of information and complete the analysis and comparison report.
This report is the resource distribution map of Mariner Canyon that they analyzed.
To put it bluntly, it is a treasure marked on a topographic map, which is what the local forces on Earth and Mars covet when exploring Mars.
The results of the Stroll family's search at great cost cannot be disclosed to others.
Ka Mian immediately set up a double password to save this information.
The three brothers looked at the comparison report and found that the places with rich content and huge value were occupied.
We can only start from valleys with narrow terrain, low value, and unexplored areas.
After some discussion and research, the three finally selected the first excavation point, which was a narrow and low depression that contained relatively rich platinum group metals.
According to the price purchase table of precious metals, rare elements, and special gases of the Earth and Star Administration, this 30-acre long and narrow sedimentary zone is currently the most valuable reserve.
Enough for 2 all-in-one machines to excavate for at least 10 years.
Simulation calculations show that the surface area of this sedimentary zone is nearly 20,000 square meters, and the depth of 20 meters contains essence minerals that have been deposited for countless years, with at least 400,000 square meters of high-content mixture.
Each cubic meter of the mixture contains only platinum-based metals and gold ore sand, with an average content of more than 1 kilogram. The preliminary refinement reaches at least 0.5 kilograms. The value of this zone is equivalent to 200 tons of rough gold.
200 tons of gold is an astronomical amount of wealth for a small country, let alone a wealthy family with a small number of people. It is far beyond the estimate before departure.
Windfall, huge profits, pie in the sky! No adjective can be used too much.
This is the great benefit of space exploration. It can either cost people and money, be mundane, or be earth-shattering.
