Landing on the Antarctic coast is just the beginning of the journey.
Antarctica is vast and boundless, with numerous iceberg islands distributed. The Antarctic coast is thousands of kilometers away from the Antarctic inland mountains in the center of Antarctica.
In addition, in Antarctica, there are only a few countries that can establish scientific research stations in the interior of Antarctica, such as the United States, Russia, Japan, Germany, France, etc The Kunlun station is one of the few scientific research stations built at the highest point of the Antarctic inland "ice dome a".
There are four most important points in the Antarctic region: the pole, the freezing point, the magnetic point and the high point.
The first three points are occupied by the United States, Russia and France.
The last high point is Kunlun station.
Therefore, the Kunlun scientific research group that Gong Siyu and Ji Younai followed this time is a top polar scientific research group. However, in addition to Kunlun station, there are also great wall station and Zhongshan Station in China.
The final area of the frozen lake lies in the Antarctic inland mountains, not far from the "ice dome a point" of Kunlun station.
However, Kunlun station is located in the Antarctic inland with an altitude of more than 4000 meters, where the oxygen content is only about 60% of that in other parts of the world. Moreover, the temperature of "ice dome a" is very low, even the average temperature in summer is about - 30 ℃.
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before disembarking, gongsiyu and jiyunai, who landed on the Antarctic coast, put on polar cold protection equipment, carry luggage, carry satellite communication phones and remote sensing detectors.
There are special personnel on the icebreaker who are responsible for unloading materials. There are also snow material transport teams stationed at the south pole to transport all the materials to the inland Kunlun station in the Antarctic for the scientific research group. However, the private goods and materials of Gongsi island are carried by themselves.
12 snowmobile vehicles transported more than 600 tons of materials to the Kunlun station of ice dome a.
Each snowmobile pulls four to six sleds, and the whole team is two kilometers long, just like a train.
"Mr. Gong, first we have to go to Zhongshan station, where there are fixed wing planes that can reach the interior of Antarctica. Otherwise, if we ride on foot and snow, it will take us at least 10 days to reach the inland ice sheet mountains."
Zhongshan station is another domestic Antarctic scientific research station.
From Pei Tianning's mouth, gongsiyu learned that the inland environment of Kunlun station was too bad, so Kunlun station will rely on Zhongshan Station 1280 km away as a support base to transport materials.
In the snow field, the progress is very slow, because there are dangers everywhere. If you are a little careless, the ice sheet will crack, form a huge glacier crack, or encounter an avalanche disaster.
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time is slipping away.
In the twinkling of an eye, gongsiyu and dainai arrived at the Kunlun station in the interior of Antarctica for a week and seven days.
During the Antarctic day, even at night, the sky is not dark here.
From the first three days of their arrival, everyone has a super general desire to explore this no man's land. They drive snow motorcycles every day, or follow the scientific research team to the ice field where the frozen lake is located.
To today's seventh day.
Ji Yunai and aro have no idea about the comfort zone of Kunlun station.
Because Kunlun station is located in the Antarctic inland ice Dome A, thousands of kilometers around is no man's land, the landscape is extremely monotonous, all white, give a sense of isolation from the world, more worrying is that the strong light of the polar day will make people snow blind, that is, temporary blindness, but fortunately, jiyuni they are not ordinary people, there is no such Problems arise.
Bai feiran agreed to borrow Pei Tianning's laser drilling equipment, which was expensive. Originally, it was a new high-end equipment equipped with the private oil mine owned by Gongshi group in the Atlantic Ocean. However, during his trip to gongsiyu, the equipment was transported to the top of the deep ice drilling in the frozen lake ice field on the 10th day.
The quantum laser equipment, which was originally used to drill deep-sea oil fields, was transported to the south pole to drill for ice.
The frozen lake is 3262 meters under the ice. It is a prehistoric lake.
The last 500 meters are left from the 3262 meter ice.
Bai feiran not only brought in the laser equipment, but also equipped with professional operating machine engineers.
That day, at seven o'clock in the evening.
In polar day, the sky is cloudless, blue and clear, there is no wind on the ice sheet, the temperature is - 36 degrees, and the air is thin.
Gongsiyu, dressed in Black Snow Suit, snow glasses with wind proof and strong light, and Ji Yunai, who is wearing bright phosphor polar suit, is standing on the ice surface of the frozen lake, silently watching the engineer installing the laser drilling equipment.
All around were the scientific research personnel from Kunlun station, led by Pei Tianning, who were extremely excited.
Because this equipment is like a timely supply of charcoal, so that they can have a glimpse of the true face of the prehistoric frozen lake.
But compared with the scientific research group.
Gong Si Yu, Ji You Nai, Ji Ru Chen and Liu Yun became more calm.
All of them are wearing windbreak glasses, standing on one side, Liuyun is sitting on the ground, aro is lying lazily on the snowmobiles, Danggui is playing with the clouds, Feng Jinxuan is holding Aru waiting for him to urinate, Gong Youen is constantly taking pictures of himself, and Bai Wuyou and his men are standing in a circle around the ice drilling, knowing that the heart of Tibet sea is under the frozen lake, waiting for the ice to be pierced Some time. Dive.On the ice surface of the frozen lake ice layer, there is a circular ice well with a diameter of 1.5 meters.
Today, this ice well is more than 2700 meters deep.
"This hole has been drilled for years! It has not broken through the 3200 meter ice layer. Now technology is more and more developed. Quantum laser is a kind of equipment, and its speed is not sure how many times faster than our ordinary drilling equipment, but we don't know whether it is stable or unstable. However, once the ice sheet is fluctuated, the ice sheet will crack. If it falls into a crack, it is not a joke. "
Pei Tianning was careful and cautious, and constantly told engineers to be careful.
"What's under the ice sheet?"
Ji Younai asked curiously.
"There are tertiary glacial rifts and glacial mountains, but they have been permanently frozen under the ice, which can only be seen by detection and scanning. However, if the inland cracks, once they fall into the abyss, they will lose their lives and can't be rescued."
As soon as Professor Pei Tianning spoke, the Engineer in charge of drilling deep ice wells opened the quantum laser drilling equipment. The dazzling blue laser formed countless rays. With the image of the ice underground transmitted by the detector, the laser drilling was started without any hesitation.
Not far from Professor Pei Tianning's left hand side is a snow research vehicle with a military tent outside.
As the laser continued to penetrate into the ice, out of curiosity, Ji Yunai went into the tent and saw a remote engineer operating the drilling equipment to detect the computer picture transmitted back from the equipment and observe the depth and condition of the ice drill.
It's hard for Ji Yunai to imagine that the thickness of the ice layer is more than 3000 meters, and the depth of the frozen lake may be deeper. So, what methods should they use to dive to the depth of the frozen lake? Looking for the earth's heart hidden deep in the frozen lake?
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