This is a huge planet far away from the star with extremely low temperature. According to the current theory of star system evolution, if the interstellar clouds that formed the Lakai 9352 galaxy had enough raw materials, the planet that the Voyage spacecraft is currently orbiting should have formed a gas giant planet.
If that's the case, it should become the core of the gas giant planet at this moment.
But unfortunately, the evolution of planets and stars has not reached the end, and the raw materials have been exhausted. As a result, it became a rocky planet up to 2.1 times the mass of the Earth, and Lakai 9352 formed a red dwarf star.
Because of its far distance from Lakai 9352 and the low temperature of this star, the temperature on Planet 3 is extremely low, not even enough to vaporize hydrogen. This results in it having no atmosphere.
——To be more precise, there is no atmosphere in a macro sense.
However, it is precisely because it has no atmosphere that Zhao Changxing and other civilization leaders decided to make it their first stop when entering this star system.
At this moment, its true appearance appeared on the big screen, in front of Zhao Changxing and others.
It was a dark and cold world. Above this world, there are undulating mountains, sunken basins, and endless amounts of frozen material stretching across its desolate and barren land. Occasionally, people can still see some dark red highlights from the planet, but they often disappear quickly.
That's the volcano on this planet.
Yes, it also has relatively frequent geological activities. High-temperature lava from deep underground erupts. Not only does it eject a large amount of high-temperature gas, the lava also melts solid hydrogen, solid oxygen, dry ice and other substances frozen on the surface.
If the volcanic eruption is too violent and the energy released is too high, this cold planet will temporarily have a thinner atmosphere, but at least it has macroscopic significance. But unfortunately, this atmosphere does not last long. Due to its extremely low temperature and the fierce stellar wind, it often loses it quickly.
After releasing some satellites and organizing a group of scientists to conduct a systematic and comprehensive understanding of Planet No. 3, Zhao Changxing finally issued an order that all awake people at this moment had been waiting for.
"let's start."
"start!"
"start!"
Accompanied by the cheers of hundreds of thousands of people, the first batch of hundreds of engineers, technical workers, etc., carrying a large amount of automated machinery and building materials, left the Yuanhang spacecraft on two space shuttle ships and arrived at this planet. On the earth of the planet.
Dai Yunfei is one of them.
The place where the space shuttle landed was a small plain next to a huge canyon, or flat land.
It is very small, only a few square kilometers at most, but it is completely enough to build the first factory after human civilization reaches this star system and this planet.
The canyon next to it is hundreds of meters deep. According to preliminary calculations, it contains at least hundreds of billions of tons of water ice resources.
If this planet is as warm as the earth, then this place should be a huge lake.
Wearing a spacesuit, standing on the surface of the planet, feeling the gravity that is about 1.2 times that of the earth, Dai Yunfei let out a long breath.
He knew that at this moment, about a thousand kilometers above him, millions of his compatriots were waiting for him.
"let's start."
Said something secretly to himself, Dai Yunfei started busy with his companions.
According to the plan, after finally settling into the orbit of Planet 3, the first thing people need to do is not to wake up the hibernating people, nor to build various food factories, nor to build a "roller" base, but, Immediately build an electromagnetic railgun base in a place rich in water resources on this planet, and launch a large amount of the most precious and most urgently needed water ice to the Yuan Voyage spacecraft.
Yes, the most urgent resource needed by the Yuanhang spacecraft at this moment is water. Because it is so important, it can play so many roles, and it can create almost everything that people need.
First of all, large pieces of water ice at extremely low temperatures can absorb excess heat in the Yuanhang spacecraft and relieve people from the scorching heat. And this, for subsequent needs, is also a process of dissolving water ice into water.
After that, the water will be electrolyzed, the oxygen will be used for breathing, and the hydrogen will be used for fusion to produce energy.
At this moment, the Yuanhang spacecraft has switched from the annihilation energy supply mode of matter and antimatter to the nuclear fusion energy supply mode. As long as there is enough hydrogen, a nuclear fusion power plant can produce a steady stream of energy.
In comparison, energy supply through annihilation of matter and antimatter is more similar to battery energy supply. Nuclear fusion energy supply is similar to turning on the power supply.
This means that people can be completely freed from the shortage of resources and energy.
At this moment, this small piece of flat land has turned into a busy construction site. Many machines are busy here, and countless robots shuttle among them. Dai Yunfei and others wear spacesuits with mechanical exoskeleton functions and perform some tasks that robots cannot complete.
The land grading operation took less than a day to complete. After that came the foundation construction, which only took one day. Then came the construction of the factory building, equipment installation and debugging, and the accompanying fusion power plant quickly appeared on the earth...
All this work was completed in less than half a month. After that, the first standard resource box that could carry 100 tons of water ice was launched into space and then captured by the Yuanxian spacecraft.
Compared with a planet as huge as Planet 3, with a mass as high as 2.1 times that of the Earth, and a surface gravity as high as 1.2 times that of the Earth, building a space elevator is a project that is countless times more complex than the original Sedna. In comparison, although the efficiency of the electromagnetic railgun is lower, it is more concise, simple and practical.
At the same time, this is also the most important reason why civilization leaders such as Zhao Changxing came to this planet in the first place.
Because this planet has no atmosphere, the electromagnetic railgun can launch resources from the surface into space without any scruples. And if there is an atmosphere, the electromagnetic railgun cannot be used at all.
Because the dense atmosphere will severely slow down the standard resource box. At the same time, violent friction with atmospheric gases will also impose almost unacceptable requirements on material performance.
By that time, the space elevator cannot be built in a short time, and the electromagnetic railgun cannot be used. People will have to rely on inefficient space shuttle ships to transport supplies one by one.
The 100 tons of water ice in the first standard resource box were quickly placed on the internal conveyor belt by the people who had been waiting here. At the end of the track, a nuclear fusion electric field inside a spacecraft has been waiting for a long time.
It was first sent to the electrolysis workshop, and the hydrogen was transferred to the material bin. Following Zhao Changxing's order, the initial energy from the outside started the nuclear fusion equipment that was already ready.
Huge energy is continuously produced from this fusion power plant.
They were greeted by cheers from everyone present.
At this moment, in the canyon on Planet 3, many intelligent excavators were shuttled back and forth, delivering large chunks of water ice to the tracks and into the factory, like busy ants. Inside the factory, following the first launch, people slightly adjusted the parameters and started the second and third launches. The quality of the launches also improved rapidly, and finally stabilized to about 1,000 tons of water per launch. Ice level.
Every day, such launches will be carried out 720 times, and 720,000 tons of water ice will be delivered to the Yuanhang spacecraft.
With the sufficient supply of water ice, fusion power plants began to operate one after another. As a result, within the Yuanhang spacecraft, one after another system that had been shut down for the purpose of saving energy and resources was activated again.
The first thing to be activated is the temperature control facility.
Driven by abundant electric energy, the liquid used to transport heat began to surge with all its strength once again, in the pipelines distributed in the outer shell of the Yuanhang spacecraft with a total area of thousands of square kilometers and a total length of tens of millions of kilometers. Excessive heat is continuously transferred from the interior of the spacecraft to the outer shell, and then dissipated through radiation.
A long-lost coolness appeared around everyone.
"It's finally cool..."
Dai Yunfei, who had returned to the Yuanhang spacecraft, sighed in a low voice.
The next thing to be activated is the air filtration system. As a result, the omnipresent odor, sour smell, sweat smell, etc. that filled the air began to slowly decrease and eventually disappeared. The fresh air that only exists in memory appears around people again.
After that, the remaining two huge "rollers" were also activated. This means that people's living area has tripled in this moment. As a result, a large number of people without any fixed residence now have spacious homes again.
Then, water restrictions were lifted.
As early as an hour before the restriction order officially came into effect, Dai Yunfei had returned to the temporary residence assigned to him and was waiting next to the bathtub.
At this moment, Dai Yunfei was similar to almost every one of his companions. Their bodies were covered in dirt, exuding a pungent sour smell, and there was no hair on their heads.
Every moment there is a severe itching coming from all parts of the body, but almost everyone has become accustomed to this feeling and is too lazy to even scratch it. Occasionally the itching is so severe that I can't help but scratch it, and a white mark will appear on my skin, and some black mud will appear between my nails.
In the old days, this situation seemed tolerable. But now the water was coming soon, but he felt like he couldn't hold it back for a moment.
In the midst of this anxious wait, like scratching one's head and scratching one's head, the time for the lifting of water restrictions has finally arrived.
He turned on the faucet, and clean and clear water flowed out.
"I can finally take a shower, finally, finally..."
He murmured, almost tearing up from his eyes.
