Outside Mars, stars fill the night sky, like sparkling diamonds, lining up to welcome guests on the voyage.
"The stars are so bright, I can see them every day from now on." Some people were struck by childishness.
"It's such a strange feeling to be under the same starry sky, but so far away from our loved ones that we can't even imagine." Some people couldn't help but feel sentimental.
"My daughter is only 5 years old. I wonder if she is also looking at the stars at this time. She must not be able to see me." Someone expressed heartfelt thoughts.
"Stop talking, it's too sentimental. Sing a happier song." Someone stopped the spread of this emotion.
"You only have one hour to leave the cabin, so hurry up and enjoy the scenery." Someone reminded that this is not a terrestrial planet, and even enjoying the scenery has a time limit.
"You can watch the stars and listen to me sing a song."
Shanta, the musician with the best voice in the team, immediately hummed a light song.
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Melanin was not in the mood and had no time to admire the so-called lonely scenery. She piloted the golden leopard-print flying saucer and flew towards the second target area she had chosen, which was rich in mineral resources.
If you just look at the chart, you have to observe and understand it in person to make people feel at ease.
The flying saucer soon arrived at the designated area. Melanin turned on all the searchlights and scanned the geographical features below.
Judging from the images fed back, even though the ground has long been dry, cold and hard, it can still be distinguished that this is a three-fork intersection of a narrow river.
In ancient times, the rapids rushing down from the upper reaches loosened the soil at the "y" fork and carved out a long gourd-shaped pit with an area of about 20 acres.
Because the stone wall in the middle is very strong, it gradually weakens the powerful impact force, allowing the muddy water to flow out from both sides, leaving some sedimentary sand behind.
After tens of millions, or perhaps hundreds of millions of years of repeated elimination, heavy metals slowly precipitated, adhering to each other and remaining, forming natural mineral deposits.
The fundamental reason why this strange phenomenon occurs in the Mariner Canyon Group is that this huge belt-shaped deep groove is located in the fault and crack area of rock geology.
Ancient volcanoes erupted and magma surged up from the ground, bringing large amounts of precious metal veins out of the surface. This coincided with floods that caused widespread disasters, ultimately resulting in today's natural wonders.
Its biggest difference lies in the screening and deposition of the funnel.
Through the power of nature, we can eliminate the false and retain the true, panning for gold without taking it, and giving life to those who will patronize it in the future a rich gift.
It is conceivable that this area is the richest mineral concentration area on Mars, and it is estimated that there will be no open-pit mines with such a huge amount in other places.
Based on previous calculations, this gold forging belt covers the downstream riverbed. Based on the current mining progress of the team, it would take at least 300 Martian years to dig out a 100-meter-deep stratum, which is equivalent to 5 to 600 Earth star years.
Melaine filtered these analysis reports in his mind and made a rough overall judgment:
After the Earth and Star Administration occupied the largest cake spot, they left these scattered rich minerals to the subsequent Earth and Star expedition team.
Use their personal experience to publicize the huge benefits of space exploration and inspire more local humans to take risks.
On behalf of the Mu family, if I have a sense of proportion and only concentrates on making money in this area and does not covet dozens of other good mines, I believe that the Earth and Star Administration will not forcefully intervene.
As soon as she thought of this, she heard the notification sound of a message received on her phone.
When he looked down, he saw that it was the eye-catching message box that popped up from the Mars Drilling Corps. It turned out to be the so-called Mars announcement prepared in advance.
The content is very simple. Each prospecting team can only choose one point to operate, and must declare and confirm before digging.
If the excavation and refining operations of the 100-meter soil layer within the standard radius area have not been completed, other places shall not be selected for mining.
Violators will be fined heavily or expelled from Mars.
"As expected, it seems difficult to handle too much eating and occupying."
Mei Lanyin was a little anxious. He quickly opened the dialog box and entered a line of text:
I am Mei Lanyin, an honorary citizen of the Hijin Empire. I own a prospecting flying saucer. Can I represent the Chinese Alliance Mu family and form a separate team to select a plot of land to mine minerals?
"No problem, but the two teams are not allowed to share a weather service webpage and must pay an additional annual fee."
The other party obviously had a premeditated plan and gave a quick reply.
"nnd, it's so deceptive."
Mei Lanyin cursed secretly and continued to ask:
“After paying the annual fee, can I immediately declare the excavation location?”
"Yes, the radius must comply with the standards of the "General Provisions of Earth and Stars" and is valid for three months. If no one is mining it after the expiration date, it will be deemed to have been abandoned." The other party quickly replied.
"Okay, I'll pay the fee right away."
Melanin immediately made a point-to-point payment of 30,000 Earth Star coins to the designated account through the Mars LAN.
Paying the annual meteorological service fee without ordering all-in-one equipment sounds like a joke.
But she didn't care. By spending a small amount of money to buy a guarantee, she could avoid unexpected situations and calmly solve the remaining difficulties.
After collecting the money, the work was done efficiently.
After a while, Melaine received a separate encrypted URL.
After opening it, she was the only member inside, and her name was all in the captain and team member columns.
Mei Lanyin couldn't care about this, so he took the time to report the latitude and longitude coordinates of the radius core of this area. He was relieved after receiving a confirmation reply.
After finishing this most important part, the next step is how to effectively use these three months to complete equipment procurement, team organization and on-site excavation work.
At the moment, she carefully looked at the holographic projection and thought about how to use the terms of the "General Rules of the Earth and Stars" to surround this treasure land first.
After much deliberation, we finally decided on the implementation plan:
Simply spend a lot of money to buy a minimum base of 50 people and install it in a suitable mid-section position.
The radius covers most of the ground on both sides, leaving no room for independent work. This ensures that no one will compete for it, and you can dig your own treasures in peace and quiet.
You need to queue up to purchase the all-in-one machine. If you really can't buy a set of locally produced excavation equipment first and ship it here to make a show, it will be ok to delay it for a while.
The problem of personnel cannot be rushed. The training time is fixed at least three months. The safety risk of temporary replacement is too great.
She thought of the Strauer family, a group of people who were still on standby, who could just be used to buffer this time.
After the training of the personnel he recruited is completed, it will be a matter of course for him to take over as his replacement.
This needs to be discussed with the eldest brother and the others. With his continuous contribution to the family, this difficulty should be solved with the support of the Elders Council.
Alas, the implementation of the new plan is really difficult. Don’t think about it anymore. Let’s talk about it when we go back.
Melanin muttered to himself and took the time to go back to the rest cabin to sleep.
Darkness passes, dawn falls, and a new day begins on Mars.
What is completely different from the earth star is that except for the traces of outsiders' activities, what is left here is severe cold, severe lack of oxygen, and complete silence.
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Even if there is water, even if there is a pool of water underground, it is lifeless and lifeless because of the extreme cold.
The cruelty of nature is vividly reflected.
The members of the Stroll family expedition team put on space suits, jumped out of the flying saucer hatch and stepped lightly onto the hard gravel soil. According to the action plan drawn up last night, they began to transport the all-in-one machine with a space transport vehicle.
After three months of training, they basically mastered the assembly procedures of the equipment.
With the assistance of the maintenance robot, the installation and test run can be completed in one day.
Two people, Kamen Strouer and Kajin Strouer, led a team of 10 members, responsible for equipment installation, debugging and operation, separation testing, etc., and they were busy communicating and coordinating through continuous voice communication through the public channel. Huh.
The surface temperature of Mars is very low. Even wearing a spacesuit will feel cold and you will rarely sweat.
The gravity is only 1/3 of the Earth's stars, making it much easier to transport materials and not very labor-intensive.
Cab Stroll led two drill members, holding laser cutters, to dig caves in the nearby extremely solid rock cliffs.
Prepare to put the fresh vegetables, fresh meat, cooked food in bags, and even some medicines in the refrigerator to make full use of Mars' natural conditions of low temperature, sterility, and lack of oxygen, and use it as an ultra-low temperature refrigerator, which will greatly save the space of the flying saucer. Energy consumption.
The medical staff were not idle either. While paying attention to the weather forecast, they prepared breakfast and acted as temporary cooks.
Melanin has a lot of things to do and has not participated in specific operational activities.
This was not within the scope of her duties, so she ate some instant food, said hello to Kamien, and then flew west in the flying saucer.
The first stop is to detect the cliff fault of the Olympus Mountains, the highest peak in the solar system, with a surface altitude of 24 kilometers.
The image displayed by the UFO scanner clearly shows the bare top reaching into the clouds and the cliff-like foot of the mountain as high as 6 kilometers, making people realize the ferocious majesty of this mountain.
Melanin circled the entire mountain range twice, focused on collecting mineral detection data, and continued to move towards the 17.7-kilometer-high Alsia Mountain. He conducted in-depth exploration of its 116-kilometer-diameter volcanic crater and found a large number of exposed ordinary minerals. Metal minerals are very rich in resources, but unfortunately they are not very valuable.
Then we went to the northernmost part of the Tharsis Plateau to detect the 136-kilometer-diameter volcanic crater of Mount Arab, with a base width of 1,600 kilometers.
A wide variety of mineral resources have been discovered in two mountains, which are completely unexploited.
Fly all the way, scan all the way, and sightsee all the way.
Melanin experienced the magnificent scenery and silence of this small solid planet, and his emotions were beyond words.
Flying from the North Pole of Mars to the South Pole of Mars, Melaine finally saw an extraordinary side.
The color of Mars, which has remained unchanged since ancient times, suddenly changed.
The translucent dry ice cover looks like a gray-white gauze cap from a distance, bringing a touch of excitement and vividness to this cold and rigid planet, without causing visual fatigue.
Water, really water!
The feedback data clearly analyzed the presence of water, confirming that Mars can meet one of the key survival conditions for a very small number of people to live for a long time.
In such an extreme environment, water extraction is no less difficult than prospecting, and the cost should be very high.
Melanin did not stop any longer. He drove the flying saucer out of the Martian atmosphere, entered the coordinates of the earth and stars, started automatic cruise, and headed towards home at high speed.
The new plan was implemented, and there were too many things waiting for her to go back and arrange, so she couldn't waste time.
However, on her way home, the war broke out again in the vicissitudes of Earth.
In the Asia-West region, on both sides of the border, within a delimited area of nearly a thousand kilometers long and wide, the fa alliance army and the disobedient country y launched a struggle for the core power of the alliance.
The alliance competes for sovereignty and war begins.
