Super Earth

Having gained experience from the previous thousand-year voyage, this fifty-four-year voyage was also quite easy for them.

Even thanks to the technological advancements made over the past decade or so around the Ross 154 Star, this voyage didn't require any hibernation shifts. Instead, passengers simply took long-term hibernation medication, lay down in their Hibernation Pod, closed their eyes, and woke up to find themselves at their destination.

During those ten years or so in the Ross 154 Star system, not only did hibernation technology advance, but because of humanity's experience of a thousand-year voyage, they were indeed very afraid of undertaking another thousand-year voyage. Under such pressure, various high-performance materials emerged one after another.

Thanks to advancements in materials technology, modern machines and equipment are remarkably stable; electrical appliances, for example, could probably run for seven or eight hundred years without any problems.

Therefore, this voyage can be considered the most peaceful one for mankind since the disaster.

The journey took fifty-four years, and humanity gradually awoke from hibernation after fifty-three years.

The purpose, besides adapting to the mental confusion and some adverse physical reactions brought about by long-term hibernation, was to bring Hope to a stop and then send the Pioneer probe to the Wolf Stellar System for exploration.

Sending out detectors is a routine operation.

Knowing the dangers of the universe, humans, when prepared, would never rashly venture into an unknown Star System.

At a distance of about 0.2 light-years from the Wolf Stellar System, Hope began to Attitude Adjustment.

The steering thrusters located throughout the Hope's structure began to operate, changing the direction of Hope from bow-to-destination to tail-to-destination. Next, the five main Fusion Thruster were activated to decelerate the spacecraft.

After decelerating, Hope will continue its journey towards its destination at 1% of the speed of light for a period of time. During this process, Hope will turn around again, and only after the probe has completed its survey of the Wolf Stellar System will Hope accelerate again and enter the interior of the star system.

These actions seem simple, and indeed they are not complicated for current human technology, but they are quite time-consuming, especially for probes.

According to scientists' calculations and predictions, Hope may need to remain in the Wolf Star for a year while waiting for the probe to confirm the status of the target.

This is already considered fast. Without Fusion Thruster, such a probe into the interior of Star System from outside would take at least fifty years.

The probe to carry out the mission was built before humans went into hibernation; now all that's needed is to launch it.

It's worth mentioning that although the probe is called a probe, it actually resembles a small spaceship. Humans designed its shape to resemble Sunflower Seed, which, according to the designers, takes into account the possibility of the probe flying within the planet's internal atmosphere.

The power source used is, of course, Fusion Thruster, which is a single-engine type.

The entire probe, or Probe Spaceship, is about the size of a passenger plane, but it has no wings. Its streamlined, Sunflower Seed- shaped design makes it look extremely high-tech.

Its appearance, compared to the large, cylindrical Hope, undoubtedly better reflects people's imagination of spaceships.

Humanity immediately sent ten such probes to the Wolf Stellar System. They will be assigned to the Main Sequence Star and various planets to conduct different types of explorations, depending on their focus.

Time passed slowly as various probe data were detected and processed, and the internal conditions of the Wolf Stellar System gradually came into human view.

First, there's the Main Sequence Star of the Wolf 1061 Star System, which is a Red Dwarf Star. There are many Red Dwarf Star in the universe; these Red Dwarf Star are small and long-lived, and Wolf 1061 is a typical example.

Its age is 7.29 x 10^9 years, and its mass is 0.25 times that of the Sun. Its diameter is 0.307 times that of the Sun, or 427,159.8 kilometers. Its surface temperature is 3342 K, or 3068.85 degrees Celsius, and its rotation period is 8.47 Earth days.

The Fe/H metallicity of -0.09 indicates that the logarithmic difference between this star's iron-hydrogen ratio and the Sun's iron-hydrogen ratio is -0.09. Since humans use the Aether as a standard of measurement (the Sun's Fe/H ratio is zero), this means that the star's metallicity is even lower than the Sun's.

These parameters and data are provided to humanity by detectors that primarily observe stars. In addition, there is the star's spectral data, apparent magnitude, absolute magnitude, Rotating Shaft tilt, surface Gravitational Acceleration, stellar activity parameters, and so on.

These data may seem useless, but they are actually very important to humanity because they include data from other stars. These are crucial for understanding stellar evolution and even exploring theories of cosmic evolution. Moreover, they can enrich human databases and are of great significance for future interstellar travel, including positioning, routes, and star map creation.

Data from the probe indicates that there are three planets in the Wolf Stellar System. The one closest to the Main Sequence Star is named Wolf 1061 b, and the two outermost ones are Wolf 1061 c and 1061d.

All three planets are Rocky Planet. Wolf 1061 b, the smallest and closest to its Main Sequence Star, still has a diameter of 15,372 kilometers, 1.2 times that of Earth. However, due to its proximity to its star, this planet is extremely hot. Data transmitted by orbiting probes shows its surface is yellowish and severely weathered, with an average surface temperature of 446.5 degrees Celsius, but no signs of volcanic eruptions have been observed.

Wolf 1061 d, on the other hand, is a planet 1.98 times larger than Earth. Not only is it large, but it also has a beautiful dust ring similar to Saturn's rings in its orbit. Compared to Wolf 1061 b, this planet is extremely cold due to its great distance from its Main Sequence Star, with a surface temperature hovering around -121 degrees Celsius.

Of course, neither of these two planets is the primary target of human exploration this time. Humanity's main focus is on Wolf 1061 c. Indeed, as previously known, this planet is located inside the Habitable Zone.

Its surface temperature is 56.5 degrees Celsius, which is rare in the universe. Other data about this planet were quickly transmitted to the Hope spacecraft.

This is a planet with abundant water. Its atmosphere is mainly composed of water vapor, oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, nitrogen, sulfur dioxide, and trace amounts of rare gases. Its total mass is 3.4 times that of Earth, its diameter is 1.54 times that of Earth, and its surface gravity is 1.4299G.

Although sulfur dioxide is present in the atmosphere, other parameters are so excellent for humans that it truly deserves to be called Super Earth by 21st-century experts.

Judging from the various parameters of this planet, although the surface temperature will reach 70 degrees Celsius and the atmospheric pressure will reach 7 standard atmospheres due to greenhouse gases, these problems are not significant.

If the Silver Mist didn't threaten this region, humanity could even settle here without any problem. Overall, Wolf 1061 c is a mild planet with a super-ocean.