Although Captain Qiu's exploration and everyone including Wang Bin were a bit disappointed, but he was not too persistent. After all, three substances that were not available on Earth could be found on Mars, which is already very big for them. Surprise.
Finally, not long after Peng Ming and their simple aircraft take-off and landing runway was built, after nearly half a month of sailing support aircraft, they finally reached the orbit of Mars, and after reaching the orbit of Mars, the Phoenix I and the space fighter , Did not make any stops, immediately plunged into the atmosphere of Mars, ready to land, and other types of aerospace planes, that is, those larger in size, did not enter the atmosphere.
After all, the runway on Mars is still a recommended runway at this time, and it does not have the ability to withstand the takeoff and landing of large and super large aerospace aircraft.
Fortunately, the fleet that came to support this time carried enough engineering and construction personnel, as well as related equipment and even some engineering construction materials, such as high-grade special cement, etc. These cements are not only It has a very strong strength and can also be used in an oxygen-free or even vacuum environment.
Of course, because the size and load capacity of the aircraft are still very limited, the quantity of these materials is actually very limited, only a few hundred tons. Such a quantity, if you really want to build a standard aircraft on Mars. If you descend the runway, this is far from enough.
Therefore, these materials are not actually used to build the aircraft takeoff and landing runway, but to build the ground personnel residence, etc. After all, compared to the ground runway, this is what the ground personnel urgently need.
Because with the completion of the aircraft take-off and landing runway, their original Phoenix-1 aerospace plane will participate in the transportation of various materials together with other Phoenix-1 aerospace planes that come to support Various professionals in China Transportation.
"Captain, our bricks have reached more than 4,000 meters below the ground at this time! But even at this depth, we still didn't find any traces of liquid water. Is there no liquid water underneath?" Zhehe A team member who was drilling with Peng Ming asked him boredly.
"Don't worry! According to my experience and the data analysis of the spacecraft, there is absolutely liquid below us, and there is more than 80% possibility that it is liquid water. In addition, above the liquid water , There may be a layer of liquid methane.” Just before Peng Ming answered his words, another team member returned.
This team member is not the team member who drilled with Peng Ming before, but the team member who just arrived on Mars to support, and compared with Peng Ming, they are not professionals in this area. Although this new team member is in In other respects, they are far inferior to Peng Ming, but they are experts in drilling work, so after hearing an inquiry from a team member, they immediately returned to Dao.
"But until now we still haven't found any traces of liquid water, but even if we did not find any liquid water in this drilling, it was not completely unproductive. After all, solid water Mars still exists, and there are still a lot of them, at least in After treatment, it can meet the production and living needs of tens of millions of people.” Another team member said.
That's right, compared to liquid water and solid water, Peng Ming and others have already drilled, and there are many more.
At this moment, a team member suddenly discovered the abnormality of the drilling machine, so he immediately said loudly in the communicator: "Captain! The drilling machine is abnormal. We seem to have penetrated the ice layer, and the load of the machine is calculated. , The bottom is not empty, but there is liquid. It is very likely that it is the liquid water we are looking for?"
"No! This is definitely not liquid water, it should be drilled into the liquid methane layer. After all, according to the data, the depth we have drilled at this time is less than 500 meters before, but according to the data, the minimum thickness of liquid water , Also below the ground one thousand and six hundred meters.
At the same time, the previous data just shows that there is a layer of liquid methane with a height of about 50 meters at 100 meters above the liquid water, so what we drilled should be liquid methane, but now that we have reached the liquid state Methane layer.
So, according to the data, we are not far from where the current liquid water exists. "When he heard this player's words, Peng Ming was also full of excitement, and immediately pretended to be over his head and looked at the equipment.
After hearing his words, the other players were also very happy, and they immediately started to work harder.
Finally, after nearly ten minutes or so, they re-drilled into the ice layer, but compared to the previous ice layer, the hardness of the ice layer here is no longer so hard, just equivalent to the hardness of ordinary ice. That's it.
This made the professional with very sufficient experience very excited, and then said: "Captain, what we have drilled now should be ice made purely of water. It is not like the previous one. Although it is an ice layer, In fact, it is not purely made of water. In addition to coalescence, there are other substances, such as dry ice, soil, and stones."
"That's great, it means that we are about to reach the goal we want this time, everyone work harder!" Peng Ming said.
However, just as Peng Ming's words fell, the drill bit of the drilling rig suddenly became fast.
"Captain! We succeeded, we successfully drilled into the liquid water of Mars!" At this moment, the professional driller said.
The captain also looked excited, but he didn't get overwhelmed, but immediately ordered! Immediately turn on the drill bit and the heating equipment inside the pipeline, and start to extract the underground liquid, and then check whether it is really liquid water. "
"It's the captain!" Following Peng Ming's order ~www.mtlnovel.com~, the team members immediately began to operate their equipment.
At the same time, there were fierce cheers on the No. 2 drilling rig not far away. It was obvious that the No. 2 drilling rig had already reached the target area.
It's the same on the No. 1 drilling rig, and on the No. 2 side, the underground liquid will be extracted immediately to see if it is real liquid water.
Although the groundwater they drilled was 1,600 meters below the ground, they completed the heating of the drill bit and pipeline in less than ten minutes, and successfully pumped the liquid underground. Up here.
"How is the situation, did we drill into underground water?" Just after the underground liquid was successfully pumped up, Peng Ming immediately asked the tester!
In fact, Peng Ming is still a little worried at this time because the color of the extracted underground liquid is a bit wrong. You must know that the water on the earth is colorless and transparent, but the extracted underground water is not colorless. It was with a faint red color, and in the dark they also found that there was a faint light in the liquid, which made Peng Ming and the others very worried, for fear that their efforts during this period were wasted.
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