Looking at the clear and bright British old man in front of him, Chen Mengchuan nodded and said calmly, "We can be anxious, but don't lose control. I believe you understand this better than me, Möbius."
"Continuing with the current progress, I hope that when Tiansuo returns to Earth next time, we can bring the first batch of employees from the metal smelting plant that we have prepared to Mars. Since they have been studying on Earth for a while, I believe that many of them have almost completed their theoretical knowledge and practice and are competent enough. What is left is just the actual operation on Mars."
Möbius: "I know, we will seize all the time to complete this matter."
After finishing what he said, Chen Mengchuan turned his attention to Toni, Puslin and Chen Xiaoyun.
"The nuclear power project, as far as it goes, is not much better than the metal smelting plant. We have just completed the field survey, but judging from the results, it is not particularly ideal. We must wait until the next field survey is completed, and then we will judge whether the location of the nuclear power plant is suitable based on actual data. From the current point of view, the site selection for nuclear power plants is much more difficult and complex than that of metal smelting plants, so the progress will be slower." Toni said slowly.
Chen Mengchuan nodded.
"Then your asteroid capture ship, is it ready to capture Glacier? Once the spot is selected, Glacier will be sent over as soon as possible." Toni said.
Chen Mengchuan smiled, "We have completed most of the work, and we will definitely not hold you back by then. We have found a suitable glacier."
As he spoke, he opened a gravity screen. On it was a huge glacier. In an endless area, an extremely wide Martian polar glacier with a thickness of tens of kilometers was split into huge independent sheet-shaped glaciers by naturally formed cracks.
These glaciers are undoubtedly good news for asteroid capture ships.
Chen Mengchuan swipe open another video screen, and a huge glacier has been cut off, and the glacier itself has been uprooted!
Huge flakes of ice, pulled by the gravitational pull of countless gravity bees, are already calmly suspended tens of meters above the glacier.
"As long as you confirm the selected site, you can prepare the ice cubes directly. After the ice melts, you will have enough water to complete the operation of the nuclear power plant." Chen Mengchuan said with a smile.
"It's unimaginable... Look at what we have done. If we did this on Earth, we would probably be protested by the United Nations environmental protection organizations until the end of the world." Puslin laughed.
"There is no life on Mars, or we have not found any life forms so far. As long as we don't blow up Mars, no one will interfere with what we do on it, or even have the chance to interfere with us. So for now, the entire Mars can be said to belong to us, so in this case, intercepting some glaciers is not a serious matter." Toni said flatly.
Chen Mengchuan glanced at him and said with a smile, "I don't admit it. If you say this to others after a while, we will definitely not admit it."
Toni ignored him. "Do I look like such a stupid person? How is your current asteroid capture plan going?"
"The observation work has not been completed, but 62 asteroids with unequal volumes and shapes have been initially observed. From the perspective of observation, it is still difficult to judge the composition and structure of these asteroids. However, through our continuous scanning observations, these 62 asteroids There are three main types of planets. One type we call C-type carbonaceous asteroid, the other type S-type silicate asteroid, and the last type we call M-type metallic asteroid." Chen Mengchuan said slowly.
"Among these three types of asteroids, M-type metallic asteroid is the most important to us. As long as we capture a large enough M-type metallic asteroid, it will be enough for us to digest it for a long time."
"C-type carbonaceous asteroid is also very important to us. We can get a large amount of carbon elements from it. These carbon elements can be converted into unimaginable amounts of graphene materials. Whether these graphene materials are used for our own use or made into finished products and supplied to the earth, we can obtain a lot of effective benefits."
"If we are lucky enough, we can even develop hundreds or even thousands of tons of diamonds." Chen Mengchuan said with a smile.
"You should tell us about your asteroids, not diamonds," Toni said.
"Okay, okay." Chen Mengchuan smiled.
"You should all know that the asteroid belt is a dense area of asteroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in Solar System. Of the approximately 120,000 asteroids that have been numbered by previous human agencies, 98.5% were discovered here. These asteroids are made of rocks Or small celestial bodies made of metal that move around the sun. Because this is the most densely populated area of asteroids, with an estimated number of 500,000, this area is called the main asteroid belt, often also called the main belt. Our target is these M-type metallic asteroid in the main belt."
"For now, the first three asteroids discovered in the main belt are Ceres, Vesta and Pallas, while the three largest asteroids are Ceres, Juno and Pallas. Their average diameters are all over 400 Kilometers; there is only one dwarf planet in the main belt - Ceres, with a diameter of about 950 kilometers; the rest of the asteroids are not large, and some are only as big as dust."
"If we can capture a M-type metallic asteroid with a diameter of more than 200 kilometers, you can imagine how much usable metal we can obtain."
"However! Although it is called the asteroid belt and can be regarded as a place where planets gather, the asteroid belt is still very empty. If we had not deliberately selected the target, our asteroid capture ship would still have seen nothing in the vastness of space when it passed through the asteroid belt."
"Based on the observations of the 12 super astronomical telescopes we have launched so far, the number of these asteroids far exceeds the number estimated by humans in the past. The total number may be as high as hundreds of millions or even more. Of course, this also depends on how to define the lower limit of asteroid size. Currently, the number of asteroids with a diameter of more than 1 kilometer that we have observed ranges from 9.7 million to 37 million, and there may be more."
After saying this, Chen Mengchuan smiled very... happily!