[June 27, 2019]
In the diary, he wrote the beginning of the line. Wang Qiang sucked his nose and looked out of the window, the sky blocked by sandstorms.
The day on Mars is only 37 minutes more than the Earth. If you follow the earth's twenty-four hour time, it should still be more than three in the afternoon, but it is dusk here.
After the initial excitement, he now has no excitement when he first landed on Mars.
Life on Mars is boring, communication resources are precious, and of course it is impossible to use the Internet. Before the completion of the large-scale communication base station, each person has only 10 minutes of telephone time per day, and can call their relatives and friends on the earth, which is the only way for them to obtain information on the earth.
Without the Internet, it is a torture for modern people.
This means that you can't watch the mobile phone brush collar, nor wear a phantom helmet to the virtual world. Half of the modern people have to play a big red cross.
For Wang Qiang, his daily entertainment is listening to the pop music on the earth. Lying in bed and looking at the novels brought from the earth, the rhythm of life seems to slow down at once. Most of the others are the same, and they will find something they like in their spare time.
Fortunately, one of the twenty colonists in the colony is a chef who specializes in four major cuisines. The reserves in the colonial cabin are quite rich, and they can change their tastes every day. Ever since, eating it has become one of their few entertainments.
In order to inspire the morale of the colonists, the captain assured them that they would apply to the command center at the end of this month and bring more famous chefs to the next group of colonists. On the one hand, you have to take care of the diet of the next few foreigners, on the one hand, you can change the taste.
The dust storm outside the window is getting bigger and bigger, but Wang Qiang does not seem to see it. He continues to use the pen to write something in the diary. This is the habit that he developed after he came to Mars, mainly to pass the time.
As for why he is so calm, because he is very clear, as long as it is not the level of the 13th typhoon, he can not blow his rally with a fixed anchor. The sandstorm on Mars, since it was recorded, the biggest one seems to be twelve.
Before being sent to Mars, he was a geological worker for the future mining industry, and of course, now. There is only one mission assigned to him by the command center, which is to survey the geological information of Mars, find minerals, and evaluate the reserves of groundwater.
Although it is possible to shovel a shovel of sand to produce steel, the minerals required by heavy industry are not only steel, but also elements such as aluminum, manganese, chromium, cobalt and nickel, which are all sturdy by sand. .
The colony ship parked in the synchronous orbit has scanned the geological information map of this area. According to the topographical features on the topographic map, he has identified several locations where there may be deposits and groundwater enrichment areas. And his next month's job is to open the Mars Rover to inspect these mines and complete the final geological information mapping work.
Although I did not imagine that it was a light job from the beginning, the hardships of the conditions still exceeded his expectations.
The entire Mars is a desert with no obstructions at all. This is the fifth time he has encountered a sandstorm today. If the colonial ship on the top of the head is monitoring weather data all the time, he simply does not dare to get off the bus.
Mars climate is volatile, sandstorms come fast, and go fast.
When the wind indicator returned to a safe value, the dim sky finally reappeared in his sight.
Due to the thin atmosphere, dust particles are large and large. Due to the mil scattering effect, the dust scatters red light of the same wavelength as its own particle, the sky is red in the direction of the non-sun's line of sight, and the light in the sun and its surroundings is bluish.
Such a magnificent view can only be seen on Mars.
However, watching every day will be greasy, and the beauty will be beautiful again. Wang Qiang began to miss Coro Island, the pleasant island, the sea breeze mixed with seafood, and the blue sky.
Shaking his head, Wang Qiang put away the diary and also recalled the memories of the earth.
Open the door, he has already dressed in the space suit, and jumped to the sand with the equipment box. In order to prevent the sudden attack of sandstorms, he had already opened the anchoring device of the Rover chassis before getting off the bus, and connected a safety rope behind his back.
This is not a joke, although I haven't seen it before, but before he came, I heard that the dust storm can reach the level of the 12-level typhoon on the earth. It is not too easy to blow his small arm and leg.
"Is the lake bed sedimentary phase? This is almost weathered. There should be water underneath, just don't know how much..."
Collapsed the holographic image, holding the device as big as the suitcase, Wang Qiang found a relatively flat position on the ground, and then fixed the device on it.
The technology content of the whole set of equipment is not high, but it is quite practical. There is a striker at the bottom of the device, which can simulate the seismic wave by high-speed impact on the surface. According to the different propagation speed of the wave in different media, the lithology of different depths is determined, and it is determined whether there is groundwater below the area, how deep if there is, etc. .
Remove the tablet from the chest of the spacesuit, Wang Qiang connected the data line to the device, and then exported the waveform.
"Imported, let me see..."
Looking down the waveform, Wang Qiang has already seen the geological situation here. However, when he saw the location about two kilometers underground, he suddenly squatted and his brow wrinkled slightly.
"...has it been wrong?"
In the position of two kilometers underground, the three red, blue and green bars have a large distortion and even intertwined. In his more than ten years of work experience, this situation is the first time I have seen it.
The waveform was backed up, Wang Qiang restarted the device, and after waiting for three minutes, he measured another set of data.
However, the results this time are still the same.
In addition to the durability of the name of the heavy equipment of the future, it is impossible to use it in a few days. However, the possibility of equipment failure is ruled out, and there is only one remaining situation, that is, the geological information of the target area is extremely complicated.
More than one hundred meters of the formation, there are iron, aluminum, titanium ... and nothing at all know what it is.
I know with my feet that this is absolutely impossible to form naturally.
But what if it was not formed naturally?
A thought suddenly emerged in the heart of Wang Qiang, so that his heart accelerated.
"... Grass, is this a treasure?"
Taking a deep breath, Wang Qiang restrained the excitement in his heart and could not consider the third group of data. Putting the tablet back to his chest, he reached out and pressed it on the helmet of the spacesuit, connecting the command of the colonial cabin through the radio on the rover.
"Here is Prospector 01, call the command. I have some conditions here... not a security situation, I found something interesting here." (To be continued.)