Chapter 584

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At the same time that ESA announced the exploration of Mars, it also announced the European plan to land on Mars.

As soon as the news comes out, NASA and CNSA have shown a mild attitude, especially NASA. ESA knows that it has money, but some key technologies are hard to hurt. Naturally, it is time to go to NASA for cooperation.

NASA is very clear that cooperation with other space projects is OK, but Mars is not.

However, they had to go to CNSA again, but they also ran into a wall, which made ESA very angry. At the same time, they also knew a very important information. The two super players seemed to have reached a tacit understanding and did not want a third party to intervene in Mars.

It seems that they have found something fishy in it, but they will never think that both sides have secretly divided up Mars, especially the massive investment in matrix technology, which makes NASA firmly believe that Mars will soon become a new habitat for human beings in the near future.

In the face of such a vast territory, the temptation is irresistible. If you think that you are powerful, why should you share the cake with others.

Although it is clearly stipulated in international law that the solar system belongs to mankind, it is just a matter of saying that space exploration and extraterrestrial competition do not depend on words, but on solid and solid hard power.

Just after the European Space Agency announced that it would send an advanced satellite into Mars orbit, both sides were thinking that it was the best to let this satellite not reach its destination and be able to die.

In today's situation, the outside world has not been able to distinguish what matrix technology is going to do on Mars. In fact, matrix technology is playing a real role in disguise. Naturally, purple source crystal is the first priority strategic task, but colonizing Mars is not to deceive.

It's only a matter of time before humans colonize Mars. Matrix technology is just using this opportunity to set off a layer of smoke bombs.

Three months later, Mars Express came to Mars again, bringing the 1049 ton noah-3 to Mars orbit.

Since then, the United States has also had an orbiting Mars space station, but only more than 600 tons, a large amount of material is still used for the construction of Mars's dikawak base.

In the past half a year, great changes have taken place in the rapid wind ridge, and the sentinel base has become extremely large. A sentinel base covering an area of more than 2000 square meters was born in the high wind ridge, and heavy machinery was parked on the red soil.

Undoubtedly, the most striking one is a 30 meter high minaret, which has become a landmark building of the sentry base. The elegant and bright flags on the top of the spire indicate the subordinate Party of the base.

The purpose of the spire is defensive equipment. Naturally, the target of this spire is the native Martian snake lizard. The "yinghuo-3" satellite in space monitors the windbreak area all the time, and the life probe is always in operation.

Once a Martian snake lizard tries to get close to the base at night, the first layer of defense spire will release high-intensity ultraviolet rays with a coverage radius of 4.7 km. For the snake lizard, this is a lethal ray, which can kill as many as possible to ensure the safety of the sentinel base.

The earth drilling intelligent equipment has been working continuously for several months. As early as four months ago, the tunnel has been opened, and the whole tunnel has been reinforced in the following two and a half months.

The "observer 5" of the United States will fly over the high wind ridge every once in a while, and come to play the autumn wind regularly. CMSX does not care about this kind of monitoring behavior. With the increasing number of small mounds piling up at the windbreak, Americans also found that CMSX was drilling, but they did not know what the other side was going to do.

Once asked, the response was to study the habitat of the snake lizard, which may have underground liquid water under the old Olympus.

For this, NASA also knows that through the "Explorer" Mars locomotive, they also found that the water content in the bottom of pezos is gradually increasing. CMSX's response can not find anything wrong, and the Americans have doubts, but they can't get rid of it.

Everyone is still a player.

Just today, two Mars landing vehicles carried a group of new members and equipment into the high wind ridge. One transport ship carried four empty containers, while the other carried a very large heavy mobile equipment, the mobile condensing cutter.

In the morning, two 18 ton heavy trucks drove into the open sand 4 km away from the sentry base, and the two "Red Hawk" transport ships had already stopped on the ground. The two heavy-duty Mars rovers drove to their respective spaceships.

At this moment, the aft compartments of the two transports were already open.

Several astronauts in protective clothing came down from the heavy truck, and the landing also brought six members. Under the control of the staff, four basically empty containers were loaded on the Mars rover, and there was only a small amount of supplies in the containers.

These fully enclosed containers, which are empty, can be used to transport to Mars. Each container can hold about 6 tons of purple crystal ore.

After two hours of effort, the rover began to transport containers to the outpost base.On the other side, "red hawk-2" is loaded with a real big guy.

The mobile condensing cutter, weighing 47 tons, is still a whole. After the whole spacecraft is loaded with this big guy, it is basically saturated. After unloading the spacecraft, the Mars rover drags the crew to the sentinel base.

In the base, Ren Hong stood on the spire and saw the two Mars rovers moving forward in the rolling red dust. He was also excited.

The cutting machine has come, which means that we can finally mine the crystal ore, and pay so much energy, financial and material resources for the arrival of this moment?

At this moment, 89 staff members wearing orange red protective clothing appeared outside the sentry base one after another. One staff member was holding a flag and carrying a flag. Two Mars rovers continued to enter the base.

The six new members came to the surface one after another. After a brief meeting, the intense work continued. Ren Hong also stepped down from the spire and came to the scene.

Li Xingfeng was in charge of the work, and the containers were properly placed after unloading.

The first task at present is to send the mobile condensing cutter into the tunnel.

"Be careful. This baby is worth several aircraft carriers. It's expensive." Li Xingfeng reminded that in order to drum up this condensing cutter, the cost alone will cost 70 billion yuan. It is a hard requirement to cut crystal that the cutter can create an environment that is infinitely close to absolute zero degree. The harsh requirements on hardware for technical difficulty and mobility are directly reflected in the sky high cost.

A large group of staff spent half a day repeatedly checking to make sure that everything was normal, and finally sent the large guy with dozens of tons to the track at the tunnel entrance.

Ren Hong saw this, rubbed his hands, and walked to the control room inside the cutter at the first time. At the same time, he said, "Mingjie, come with me. During this period, you have studied with me for several months. Today, you can see how I control this device."

"Yes, Professor Wang."

An astronaut trotted past and joined Ren Hong into the control room.

After a while, Li Xingfeng and others watched the 47 ton heavy truck slowly go deep along the heavy rail in the straight tunnel. There was no window in front of the control room, but there was a camera. The control room was in the rear of the equipment.

It was a few kilometers away.

"There is no need to explain the characteristics of the violet source crystal, but also its special structure of uniform distribution, the crystal structure of isohexahedron..." Ren Hong said, while controlling the equipment: "in fact, this set of cutting machine is highly automated equipment, you have to do is to monitor the data and equipment operation is normal, other basically nothing to do."

With that, Ren Hong pressed a button. Outside the tunnel, the front part of the cutter combined with the purple crystal.

At this point in time, the device is already in operation.

Ren Hong waited anxiously in his heart. When he saw a new message coming out of the display panel, he immediately got up: "Mingjie, look at it. I'll go and have a look first."

Ren Hong immediately left the control room and went to the storage area behind the equipment.

The first crystal has been cut and is being transported to the back reservoir.

When a dark purple crystal, which is a little smaller than half a fist, is quietly placed in the storage area. Ren Hong locks the small crystal, and he squats down and takes it up.

did not wait as like as two peas to see carefully. Second identical crystals of the same size were conveyed through the tracks, and they were still running in the cold fog. The scary temperature of the purple source crystal surface that had just been cut was Ren Honggan's direct going to take it because of the existence of protective clothing.

It was these dark purple crystals that haunted him, and now he finally got what he wanted.

Seeing the crystals being transported, even Ren Hong, who is familiar with big scenes, can't stop his excitement. This is the key material of the wireless energy era, which is enough to lay the foundation stone of a country's space overlord.

Each crystal is congruent. According to the peak energy storage, this crystal of about 200g can store 185 trillion joules of high-purity energy, which is the largest volume that the cutting machine can cut in a single time.

Looking at the accumulation of more and more crystals, Ren Hong couldn't help grinning. These crystals are really priceless and deserve to be said.

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