Chapter 1092

If the acceleration of the construction of the lunar base is enough to make many countries feel uneasy, then the next action of the infinite gravity group will make their uneasiness even worse.

Because the last of the six launches, the infinite gravity group did a great deal with the spaceship, that is to use the spacecraft to launch automatic ground exploration equipment in the areas of the moon where a lot of minerals were detected by satellites!

The weight of each exploration vehicle is about 5 tons, but the exploration equipment they carry is customized for the topography of the lunar surface by relevant laboratories, and the relevant technology level is at least one level ahead of the world.

In a sense, lunar exploration vehicle belongs to robot technology. Whether the lunar rover is wheeled or legged, it should have the basic functions of forward, backward, turning, climbing, fetching, sampling and turning (turning over after falling).

There is even a rudimentary artificial intelligence (for example, identifying, climbing or bypassing obstacles, etc.). These functions are similar to those of modern robots.

However, these functions are not enough for lunar exploration vehicles. It is a kind of robot that performs exploration mission in the special space environment - space robot. It has the characteristics of both robot and spacecraft, which is different from industrial robot, medical robot and household robot used on the ground.

"Light weight, small size, low power consumption" has always been the golden rule of spacecraft design. It is called "conventional three items" in the evaluation index of aerospace advantage products recently. The pursuit of "light, small and low" is the eternal theme of spacecraft research and development.

The longer the range, the higher the requirements, the lighter, smaller and lower the requirements for the mass, volume and power consumption of the lunar probe. Even if the spacecraft of infinite gravity group can deliver nearly 600 tons of materials to the moon at a time, the laboratory has not abandoned these design standards when designing the lunar exploration vehicle.

Because the carrying capacity is not really high. The construction materials of the lunar advance base and the underground base will be transported from the earth for a long time. It is better to save a little weight.

After all, everyone knows which one to choose between a 5-ton lunar exploration vehicle and a 10 ton exploration vehicle with the same function, so the number of lunar exploration vehicles with a full warehouse can be sent to 118.

After so many lunar exploration vehicles have been put into the mining area on the moon, many countries can't sit still this time. They have to consider a long time to launch a lunar exploration vehicle to the moon. How can people live if you put so many lunar exploration vehicles at one time?

Although the infinite gravitation group didn't say what we were going to do, the meaning of their large-scale launching of mineral exploration vehicles was not too obvious!

Because long ago, the infinite gravitation group announced that they planned to build mining and smelting plants on the moon, and even announced plans to build relevant equipment manufacturing plants on the moon. They intend to make the lunar base achieve self-sufficiency in a certain period of time in the future, and not need to send everything so far from the earth.

Now your large-scale investment of mineral exploration vehicles does not mean that you have started to move towards this plan. To build mining and smelting plants, of course, it is necessary to find a good enough mining area before starting work.

As we all know, the moon is rich in mineral resources, and preliminary exploration with satellites and some ground exploration vehicles can find that there are more rare metals on the moon than on earth.

There are three main types of rocks on the moon: the first is the moon sea basalt rich in iron and titanium; the second is anorthosite, rich in potassium, rare earth and phosphorus, mainly distributed in the lunar highlands; the third is mainly composed of 0.1-1 mm debris particles.

Lunar rocks contain all the elements in the earth and about 60 kinds of minerals, among which 6 kinds of minerals are not found on the earth. The moon is extremely rich in mineral resources. Take the 17 most common elements on the earth for example, their reserves on the moon are not small at all.

Take iron as an example. The 5 cm thick sand on the surface of the moon contains hundreds of millions of tons of iron, while the average thickness of sand on the whole moon surface is 10 meters. Iron on the surface of the moon is not only extremely rich, but also easy to mine and smelt.

Iron on the moon is mainly iron oxide, as long as oxygen and iron are separated; in addition, scientists have developed ways to make cement and glass from lunar soil and rock. On the surface of the moon, aluminum is also abundant.

Apart from other things, the mining and use of iron, titanium, aluminum and other metals can greatly save valuable transportation capacity. Everyone knows that the weight of these things is the most important among the materials from the earth to the moon.

However, both the construction of the base and the construction of factories and cities in the future are inseparable from these metal materials. It is obviously impossible to transport them from the earth all the time, and it can only be mined and processed on the moon.

The lunar soil is also rich in helium 3. Although we can't use it now, it doesn't prevent us from trying to occupy more, because it represents the energy of the future.

The content of helium 3 in lunar soil is estimated to be at least 715000 tons. If we really want to exploit helium 3, we can get 6300 tons of hydrogen, 70 tons of nitrogen and 1600 tons of carbon for every ton of helium 3 extracted from the lunar soil. These resources may be the things needed by the lunar base!However, so many mineral resources data are still preliminary exploration data, and there may be more reserves that have not been detected. It is obvious that human beings can not go to space civilization without the support of these mineral resources on the moon.

It is precisely because of this that the infinite gravity group's large-scale launch of exploration vehicles makes many countries sleep and eat uneasy, because if the rich mineral areas on the moon are discovered and occupied by the infinite gravity group, it will be very difficult for them to develop on the moon later!

Even if they want to build a base on the moon, it will be a difficult thing. After all, the reality is not a TV series. You can't steal your home with a wrench. The base defense of infinite gravity group will not be mentioned. Even if it is a robot working in the mining area, you can't do it.

Moreover, from the consistent style of infinite gravity group, if you dare to attack their company's base on the moon, they may destroy all your existence on the moon in the next moment. This is not too simple for them. No one can see the maneuverability of the spacecraft through such a long live broadcast!

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