"1 hour and 52 minutes remain until the igniter impacts Mars."
In space, the 'Igniter' asteroid was hurtling toward Mars at high speed. After the mechanical pillars completed the scheduled orbital correction on the 'Igniter,' they continued flying alongside it.
Beyond Mars, the Fairy Maiden, Divine Maiden, and Sky Ant spacecraft had already loaded the necessary equipment and arrived at their designated positions to wait.
Everything was proceeding according to the Mars Project plan.
The laboratory's holographic platform projected the movements of the two celestial bodies, along with virtual representations of their orbital paths.
The purpose of this impact was to set Mars's liquid mantle layer in motion, causing molten iron within the planet to flow and create friction, settling, and convection with the solid metal sphere of the core, thereby activating Mars's magnetic field.
Now that the preparations were complete, all that remained was for the asteroid to strike Mars in 1 hour and 50 minutes.
After recalculating the trajectory and confirming there were no issues, Chen Mo sat in his chair and began to wait.
Zhao Min and Xiao Yu were also present. Sitting quietly beside Chen Mo, they were among the few who truly knew about the Mars Project, and they were now about to witness this historic moment.
On Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, several important probes fitted with ion thrusters received the command. They immediately ceased operation, activated their thrusters, and escaped the Martian surface into space.
An hour and a half passed quickly, and the moment when the 'Igniter' would strike Mars drew ever closer.
"The Igniter is about to impact Mars. Mechanical pillars, disengage from escort formation."
Following the command from the onboard Artificial Intelligence, the mechanical pillars flying alongside the Igniter asteroid began decelerating, withdrawing from the asteroid's vicinity and