Chapter 382 57% of the Speed of Light
Chen Jue didn’t know what was happening on the moon. His perception ability could only cover a few hundred kilometers at present and was unable to cover the entire Earth-Moon orbit.
At this moment, he was riding on the spherical aircraft, moving at high speed towards Mars.
After entering the space environment, without the air resistance of the Earth's atmosphere and the influence of the Earth's gravity, the speed of the spherical aircraft driven by Chen Jue became faster and faster.
It increased three levels from over 100 Mach to around 100,000 Mach in one go.
At this time, the speed of the aircraft has exceeded 34 kilometers per second, which has reached 10% of the speed of light, but has not yet reached Chen Jue's limit.
And this speed is not particularly fast!
Because the fastest spacecraft currently available to mankind, the Juno spacecraft launched by the United States in 2011, once used the huge gravity of Jupiter to accelerate to a world record of 73.6 kilometers per second in 2016.
"Let me test my acceleration limit!"
Chen Jue put all his efforts into it, using the gravitational field between the Earth and Mars to continuously increase the speed of the spherical aircraft.
100,000, 200,000, 300,000, and when it increased to Mach 500,000, the entire aircraft could no longer withstand such a terrifying speed and began to vibrate violently.
"Space dust?" Chen made up his mind and patted the metal inner wall of the aircraft, increasing the injection of plasma energy.
You know, space looks almost like a vacuum, but in fact there is a lot of cosmic dust floating in it.
These dust particles are a mixture of rock particles, metal particles, and gas particles. Although the distribution is extremely uneven, the proportion of one cubic meter is almost zero.
But once the spacecraft accelerates to a certain speed, just like driving a car on a rainy day, the amount of cosmic dust that hits it head-on begins to increase dramatically, just like a car diving into the rain. No matter how hard the wipers wipe, it is impossible to wipe away all the raindrops falling from the sky.
Fortunately, after Chen Jue's plasma energy was injected into the outer shell, the originally solid and hard outer shell of the spherical aircraft once again entered a fluid state and stabilized the vibration.
The cosmic dust that hits the outer shell head-on is either blown away by the airflow created by the aircraft, or absorbed and integrated into the outer shell like the bullets shot at the aircraft.
A harder and denser protective layer was built on the outermost layer of the aircraft, which completely adapted to the flight environment of outer space. The abnormal and violent vibration was finally stabilized.
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Although the process of cruising in space was very boring, Chen Jue leaned comfortably on the large American sofa and used the notepad function of his smart bracelet to record some important data of the flight in detail.
"Flight record: After entering space, when the spacecraft reaches a speed of 56% of the speed of light, the shell will encounter a cosmic dust barrier similar to the sound barrier."
"Countermeasures: Strengthen the outer shell of the aircraft, or use a waverider body to open up a route to avoid cosmic dust. Spherical aircraft are not suitable for high-speed cruising in a space environment..."
These data are crucial for future humans to step into the starry sky and conduct interstellar travel.
As a true saint on earth and a pioneer of mankind, he naturally wanted to leave a few words in the history of entering the starry sky.
It’s just that Chen Jue overestimated the distance between the Earth and Mars. After flying for less than 20 minutes at a cruising speed of 56% of the speed of light.
Chen Jue could clearly sense that the gravitational field outside the aircraft was changing.
"We're reaching Mars so soon? " Chen's determination was stirred. He realized that a gravitational field that was nearly 10 times smaller than the Earth's was providing traction for the aircraft.
Because the diameter of Mars is only half of that of the Earth, and its mass is only about 11% of that of the Earth, the gravity it can provide is naturally much smaller.
After noticing the change in the gravitational field, Chen Jue slowly slowed down the speed of the aircraft and reached out to touch the inner wall.
The surface of the spherical shell, which was originally in a fluid state, suddenly began to wriggle, as if teeth had grown out of the gums.
Along with the dazzling white light, a piece of transparent thick glass grew out from the outer shell.
This is a transparent observation window created by Chen Jue using the ability of [Material Interference] to remove dust and sand adsorbed on the outer shell of the aircraft.
Previously, when flying at 57% of the speed of light, the glass of this type of viewing window could not withstand the oncoming dust flow, so Chen Jue did not use this thing.
Now that they are about to arrive at Mars and have slowed down their speed to the normal speed of a spacecraft, he will need to observe the situation on Mars with his naked eyes.
After all, Chen Jue's perception ability is not so exaggerated as to cover an entire planetary system at once, and there is no high-tech positioning and navigation inside the aircraft. He can only use the crude method of looking directly with the naked eye to judge whether his route is correct.
Through the viewing window, Chen Jue saw a completely red planet.
It is only half the size of the Earth, and its outer atmosphere is much thinner than the Earth's. The atmosphere is mainly composed of carbon dioxide, with only a small amount of oxygen and water vapor.
In Chen Jue's eyes, the entire Mars was filled with deathly silence and desolation.
Compared with the blue earth full of vitality , it seems as if the entire planet has fallen into deep sleep.
“Is this Mars?”
"In the thirty-sixth year of the First Emperor, Mars was in the heart."
"It's still much more spectacular when viewed up close than in the data." Chen Jue muttered, and stretched out his hand to pull the newly generated observation window from the front of the fluid suit's outer shell to the top of his head as if it were on a slide rail.
With the change of observation angle, Chen Jue saw the signal pointer that was directly shot from the Earth to the surface of Mars.
That was a special energy . Chen Jue had observed its trajectory several times before when he was on Earth.
After flying hundreds of millions of kilometers, the energy field emitted by this imperial tomb has not shown any signs of attenuation. It is like a compass needle in the space environment, providing Chen Jue with a direction to continue moving forward.
“Is this a signal pointer, or is it similar to the rainbow bridge in Norse mythology?”
"It won't decay even if it crosses the distance between two planets..." Chen made up his mind and controlled the aircraft, moving closer to Mars little by little along the directional bridge built by the energy field.
After spending several minutes adjusting its flight attitude and passing through the thin Martian atmosphere, the spherical aircraft landed smoothly on the Martian surface near the equator.
As the outer shell of the sphere began to wriggle, a hatch that could allow a human body to pass through was automatically generated.
Chen Jue was dressed in black, wrapped tightly from head to toe, with only his eyes covered with a device similar to diving goggles. He pushed off his feet and stood lightly on the ground of Mars.
"We have achieved the achievement of being the first human to set foot on Mars!" Chen Jue couldn't help but feel happy.
He raised his head and looked around, all he saw was a sky full of dim yellow dust. The strong wind carried the reddish-brown sand, which hit the surface of his suit.
As for where he was standing, it was an arched boulder that looked like a low hill, and its topography was very similar to the weathered ghost towns in the deserts of Earth.
As soon as he landed on the huge rock, Chen Jue noticed something was wrong.
He could clearly feel that there seemed to be something under the rocky hill where he was.
Chen Jue sensed something was wrong under his feet with his external senses, and stomped his feet hard. The reddish-brown rocks around him were like being hit by a ground-penetrating missile.
With a loud bang, the rocks within a radius of several kilometers centered on the place where Chen Jue stomped his feet shattered into countless pieces in an instant.
It's like a big, pointed rice dumpling with its skin peeled off.
The moment these rocks fell off, a pyramid-shaped building was revealed that was extremely similar to the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor!
"No wonder the signal from the Imperial Mausoleum points to this area."
"There really is something fishy going on underneath this!"
