"You mean, Tiansuo is going to return to Earth and bring these 18,000 scientific researchers to Mars to hold a scientific summit?" Chen Mengchuan looked at Zhao Wanyu with a headache.
Zhao Wanyu smiled, "I think the problem shouldn't be big. The Space-time Traversal department has now completed 124 Space Foldings with an absolute straight-line distance of 80 kilometers. The speed has more than doubled compared to before. If calculated this way, it will not only take about 7 days to get to Mars."
Chen Mengchuan rolled his eyes. "Wanyu, that's not the way to calculate it. Mars is also far from the earth. The nearest one is 55 million kilometers, but the farthest one is more than 400 million kilometers?"
Seeing Chen Mengchuan roll his eyes at himself, Zhao Wanyu chuckled, "I asked Ah Chen to calculate that if we set off from the earth in half a month, the distance will be less than 80 million kilometers, which is closer than the last time you went to Mars."
"Ahem, cough, is that so?"
Zhao Wanyu nodded with a smile.
"Okay, I understand. I will make arrangements as soon as possible and then set off to return." Not long after saying that, Chen Mengchuan hung up the video call with Zhao Wanyu.
Glancing at Simba who was sitting not far away and calculating sullenly, Chen Mengchuan asked him, "When did the Space-time Traversal department complete an absolute straight-line distance of 80,000 meters and 124 folds?"
"Brother Chuan, it's been several days. There are too many things going on these days, and there's nothing special to mention, so I haven't mentioned it yet. Soon we will complete the 124th absolute straight line distance of 120 kilometers. Wouldn't it be easier to wait until then?" Simba answered Chen Mengchuan.
Rubbing his forehead, Chen Mengchuan laughed, "You are getting better and better now, which makes me worry less."
"Have we ever let you worry about it?" Toni raised his head and pushed up his glasses and asked.
"That's really not the case." Chen Mengchuan answered immediately and then changed the subject.
"Brother Xu, how is the current overall work progress of L7332's exploration type Multi-Arm Crab? It seems that mining exploration Multi-Arm Crab has not set off yet. Is it because the Mars mineral layer area has not been completed yet?"
Xu Shuwei looked at him and replied, "Currently, our 128 L7332 exploration type Multi-Arm Crab have explored 72% of the surface of Mars. It is expected to take some time to complete, and there are still many data in dust storm areas that are missing. They need to be replenished after the first phase of exploration is completed, so the speed cannot be that fast."
"The identification and planning of the mining area are very different from what we imagined. Earth's geological vein exploration technology has no reference at all on Mars. On the whole, the surface geological structure of Mars is much simpler than that of the Earth. This makes the mining area exploration even more ineffective." Xu Shuwei answered.
"Then what is your current solution?" Chen Mengchuan frowned slightly. Although he had fully considered this situation at the beginning, he did not expect that the gap would be so big that it would be impossible to explore at all.
"What else can we do is to release all 1,800 mining exploration type QS10086 multifunctional Multi-Arm Crab and let them go to the areas we tried to select that may have mineral layers to try to dig and analyze. It was a period of trial excavation that allowed us to conclude that the earth's geological vein exploration technology cannot be used on Mars."
"Now we can only try to find patterns in these data. Although the current progress is not fast, there has been some progress, and a lot of data on possible mining areas have been obtained. However, these still require Multi-Arm Crab's excavation and exploration before we can draw conclusions." There was some helplessness in Xu Shuwei's words.
Chen Mengchuan After thinking for a while, he slowly said, "Contact the geological departments and ore research institutions of various countries on the earth to see if you can gain anything from them."
"We have discussed it with Wanyu. A research department of Tenzhi Technology on Earth has begun to communicate with geologists from various countries. Many people have accepted our request and will come to Mars in this Mars Science Summit." Xu Shuwei said.
Chen Mengchuan's heart sank vaguely. The progress of Mars mineral exploration was much slower than he had imagined. Although he was a little anxious, he did not show it too much. After all, Xu Shuwei had also put in his best efforts.
After the two chatted for a while about the topic of Mars geological and mineral exploration, he ended the conversation and looked at Möbius and Su Ruifeng.
"Möbius, how is the progress of your metal smelting plant now?" Chen Mengchuan asked.
The first words Möbius spoke made Chen Mengchuan feel a little disappointed. He shook his head and said to Chen Mengchuan, "Don't have high expectations when it comes to the metal smelting plant. The current progress is not ideal."
"How is the overall progress now?"
"In terms of overall progress, based on the Martian terrain and geological data provided by the exploration type Multi-Arm Crab, we have analyzed suitable survival locations for us. Some are far away from the base, and some are much closer to the base. After two discussions, our entire department conducted data testing and confirmation on these points, and at the same time selected suitable points for program confirmation and startup."
"However, based on our actual field detection results later, more than half of these points did not meet the requirements for selecting metal smelting plants. These non-compliant points had various problems and were eventually abandoned by us. Now after comparing and confirming the points, we have finally selected only 7. At present, these 7 metal smelting plants have completed the foundation construction work and started to build metal smelting plants."
"The progress of these seven metal smelting plants is the only one that is relatively good. In addition, we have confirmed 4 new sites suitable for establishing metal smelting plants. Although 4 more sites have been selected and we are ready to set off to the destination for construction work, new problems have arisen. We do not have enough A large enough gravity working platform can support our construction work at multiple distances and in different directions. This is what I mentioned to you this morning, using Tiansuo to complete the facility construction support at these points." Möbius said.
Chen Mengchuan sighed in his heart, but said with a smile on his face, "There are already 7 under construction, which is better than nothing. There are always so many difficulties, and we can only solve them one by one. I believe that no one else can do this better than you."
"But we are still too slow, and we know it. The entire metal smelting plant project has not even completed the first phase until now. I hope the next step will be smoother."