Chapter 557: Journey (II)
The first device that Dimash and his two companions assembled was the tool cabin.
In fact, the tool cabin is similar to the excavation and transportation equipment at the Copernicus Base on the Moon. It can dig tunnels and transport some assembled cabins.
A lot of equipment is modular, so it is very easy to assemble, just like building blocks.
Soon the digger-tool cabin was assembled.
"Wang, you are in charge of the excavation work."
"OK."
Like a millipede digger, it crawled towards a low-lying sandy area not far away .
The Digger's power system is very special. It is not a nuclear battery or a solar panel, but a magnetic monopole crystal.
That’s right, it’s a magnetic monopole crystal.
Another property of magnetic monopole crystals is the ability to transmit electrical energy over long distances.
Therefore, part of the Digger's power supply system is a wireless power supply system made by magnetic monopole crystals, and the other part is a backup emergency chemical battery.
In this way, the Diggers can directly rely on the backup nuclear batteries on the Spark spacecraft.
Wang Shu controlled the digger and dug trenches on the ground.
In less than half an hour, a large pit 8 meters deep and 20 meters long was dug.
However, during the excavation process, Wang Shu discovered a new situation, that is, the water content of the sand.
In the sand layer 1 to 2 meters below the surface, the water content of the sand is very low, but as the excavation depth increases, the water content in the soil increases slightly.
This situation shows that there is groundwater underground on Mars.
In fact, this situation is very normal. The Mars geological remote sensing satellite of the Space Business Department has long discovered through magnetic field detectors that there is a large amount of groundwater underground on Mars.
Of course, even if there is abundant groundwater under Mars, it is highly unlikely that Homo Sapiens will mine it in large quantities.
After all, the total amount of water resources on Mars is too small, especially the shallow groundwater, which is pitifully small.
Instead of extracting groundwater on Mars, it would be better to send a spacecraft to the asteroid belt to pull over a few asteroids containing water.
Unless there is an emergency, the Space Division does not plan to mine Martian groundwater on a large scale in the short term.
While Wang Shu was digging a tunnel, Dimash opened an exclusive Mars live broadcast room to the Earth through the communication system.
Through this live broadcast room, Dimash broadcasts his daily life on the alien planet to the inside of Sapiens Corporation and the entire free world.
In front of the camera in the live broadcast room.
In order to avoid leaking secrets, Dimash, who was wearing a robot body, used electronic synthesized sound to introduce the situation of the Mars base to the audience.
"Hello, dear audience friends. I am Robot No. 0074 of the Sapiens Company stationed on Mars. Now I will introduce the situation of Mars and the Mars base to you..."
Dimash's electronic synthesized sound is very stiff, and combined with the gray dust background behind him, it is difficult to understand the environment.
Ordinary people in the free world thought this was a photo studio in a desert.
However, employees within the Sapiens company are very sure that the company's spacecraft has landed on Mars .
After all, the Sapiens company has created too many miracles, and the employees have long had a blind self-confidence and they believe in the company very much.
Compared with ordinary people in the free world, the four major forces in the free world knew that the spacecraft .
However, the four major forces will naturally not help the Sapiens company to promote itself.
The entire free world can only describe Sapiens' huge investment in the aerospace field with envy, jealousy and hatred.
Dimash live-streamed for more than half an hour and then ended his live-streaming work for the day.
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Five hours after landing on Mars.
Dimash, Wang Shu and others quickly logged off to go on vacation.
But the robot did not stop working, because another group of staff took over the task of operating the robot.
After all, the service life of a magnetic monopole crystal is only more than 7 years, and time is very precious, so naturally the machines continue to work while people rest, working in four shifts around the clock.
In order to ensure that the staff do not have to work day and night, the Space Business Unit also made use of the time differences among various branches and established five special remote control centers in South America, the Pacific, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa.
The Sapiens Company is a force that never sets on the equator.
By taking advantage of the time differences between different places, employees can be guaranteed a six-hour working time and the four-shift system can be fully implemented without the trouble of jet lag.
In terms of humanity, Sapiens is definitely the world's number one.
The newly-online staff controlled the robot and continued the work of the previous team.
Utopia Station rose from the sandstorm at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming the first base of human civilization on Mars.
The dust storm on Mars is still raging.
In the various compartments buried underground, many functions have begun to work. For example, the nuclear power compartment, which serves as the power supply core, continuously supplies electricity to other compartments.
Relying on nuclear batteries, the base's experimental cabin is carrying out relevant scientific research. Although there are no humans, the robots can be controlled through the magnetic monopole crystal communicator, which is actually similar to the work of humans here.
In addition to the scientific research work in the experimental cabin.
Many field exploration robots are also stored in the other two tool cabins.
These field exploration robots are not humanoid, but various special-shaped robots, including: vacuum airship robots, multi-legged all-terrain robots, and tracked robots.
Among them, the airship robot has not been launched recently due to weather reasons.
However, quite a few tracked robots and multi-legged robots have already been dispatched.
These tracked robots and multi-legged robots, with Utopia Station as their base, slowly explore in all directions.
The staff who operate these robots also control the robots from the Earth headquarters through magnetic monopole crystals.
Moreover, these robots also use magnetic monopole crystals as wireless chargers, reducing the disadvantages of carrying solar panels and large lithium batteries and nuclear batteries.
Through magnetic monopole crystal wireless chargers, these robots can work in the field for a long time.
The exploration robot's task is very simple, which is to scout the surrounding terrain and collect soil samples in the surrounding area.
Sapiens is actually very interested in Mars.
After all, according to the current theory of the birth of life in the solar system mastered by Sapiens, amino acid structures are commonly found in asteroids and comets, and amino acids happen to be one of the basic components of biological cells.
The researchers at Sapiens have reason to believe that there is life on every planet in the solar system to a greater or lesser extent, but it is not as obvious and large as on Earth.
For example, there are several species of single-celled organisms in the underground aquifers of the moon, not to mention Mars, which is frequently visited by asteroids.
Therefore, one of the current tasks of the exploration robot is to look for traces of life on Mars and to see if there was traces and evidence of life on Mars in ancient times.
However, it is a bit difficult to find signs of life in Utopia Plain.
After all, Utopia Plain is located in the northern hemisphere of Mars, which is covered by sandstorms all year round. Over the years, sandstorms have deposited a large amount of sand on the ground.
If you want to find evidence of the existence of ancient life on Mars, you certainly cannot look for it here. Instead, you have to look for those large canyons, mountains and hills, where there is a possibility of ancient biological remains that are not covered by wind and sand.
