"You want to build 6 more nuclear power plants?" Chen Mengchuan looked at Toni.
The latter nodded. "It's not that we still need it, but we have already started preparations. The site selection has been completed. Although our energy supply is sufficient at present, as more metal smelting plants begin to work, the electricity required on the entire Mars is no longer enough."
"Has the production of graphene solar photovoltaic power stations started?" Chen Mengchuan asked.
"Preparations have begun. There will be 128 solar photovoltaic power stations orbiting Mars. There are several jobs here, some of which are graphene production and some of which are the construction of photovoltaic power stations. These require a lot of Multi-Arm Crab, Wanyu told me that Multi-Arm Crab is being produced at full speed on earth, and 100,000 Multi-Arm Crab will be available in half a month, but this is still half a month away."
"It seems that the quantity and quality of the uranium ore we have discovered on Mars are very good." Chen Mengchuan smiled.
Toni nodded. "That's true, that's why I want to start building energy supply on a large scale. These six large-scale nuclear power plants can provide sufficient energy. Each nuclear power plant can cover a large area of metal smelting plants within their respective areas, and then coupled with the graphene solar photovoltaic power station that continues to be completed, in about three months, our metal smelting work will be on track."
Chen Mengchuan nodded, he was satisfied with this speed.
After the metal smelting plant is fully activated, the captured asteroids will be continuously decomposed and smelted to produce countless metals and other material resources.
If these resources were obtained from the earth, I'm afraid Tenzhi Technology, no matter how big the financial resources are, would be stretched thin because there are simply too many. The asteroid capture work was the first to get on track.
The number of asteroid capture ships has increased to thousands. After the upgrade to Space-time Traversal Space Folding, the speed has been increased again. More and more asteroids are continuously captured on Mars, then cut open, crushed and sent to metal smelting plants one by one, and then the metal raw materials are purified.
Some time ago, Chen Mengchuan began to prepare the Solar System exploration and development plan. In today's Mars, although Tenzhi Technology has only been here for a short time, it can be said that it has already taken root. Bases one by one, metal smelting plants, nuclear power plants, exploration bases, and mineral resource bases are constantly expanding. A large number of Multi-Arm Crab are being continuously produced and quickly put into the entire Mars.
In this process of continuous development, energy is undoubtedly the most important prerequisite. Although the energy problem of Multi-Arm Crab does not face energy shortage or insufficient energy problems under a large number of plans, it has also received some vague restrictions in terms of energy.
Toni has started the construction of both ground and above-ground energy supply stations, and its purpose is to strive for the fastest construction.
Each of these construction facilities on Martian base is a large consumer of electricity, whether it is a metal smelting plant or an exploration stronghold or base.
While the overall infrastructure of Mars is being covered in an even and orderly manner, Chen Mengchuan and others have also set their sights on farther places early.
Solar System exploration and development plan has only now taken the first step.
"It's time to allocate some resources to explore other planets." Chen Mengchuan said slowly.
Toni nodded. "Then it's Jupiter."
"Yes." Chen Mengchuan confirmed.
Jupiter is a very eye-catching planet in the entire Solar System. The first reason is that Jupiter is large enough. Although its density is not particularly large, its volume and equatorial diameter are the largest.
Currently, NASA knows the most about Jupiter among the human world.
NASA has done a lot of exploration of Jupiter. Through observations and data analysis, NATA's Jupiter experts have determined that the composition of the upper atmosphere of Jupiter is calculated based on the volume percentage of gas molecules. About 88-92% is hydrogen and 8-12% is helium. From a chemical point of view, the atomic weight of helium is four times that of hydrogen. When the composition is described by mass, elements of different atomic weights will have different proportions. The larger atmosphere of Jupiter is about 75% hydrogen and 24% helium, with other elements probably accounting for less than 1% of the remaining mass.
There is currently no conclusion about the internal structure of Jupiter, but many NASA scientists have judged that the higher-density elements inside Jupiter should be mainly hydrogen. Judging and guessing based on the formation of the entire planet, it will be roughly 71% hydrogen, 24% helium, and 5% other elements.
Many instrument data of the exploration spacecraft can observe that Jupiter's atmosphere contains trace amounts of methane, water vapor, ammonia and silicon-based compounds through spectroscopic and infrared instruments. At the same time, NASA scientists also believe that there are trace amounts of carbon, ethane, hydrogen sulfide, neon, oxygen, phosphine and sulfur on Jupiter.
Chen Mengchuan has always been more unrestrained in his views on these. He believes that all this information about Jupiter is based on analysis and judgment of observational data. Whether this is really the case requires arriving at Jupiter and going in depth to collect the most authentic and credible data.
"I plan to start with Europa for detection." Chen Mengchuan smiled and spoke first.
"Europa!" Toni also laughed.
"Yes, let's go to Europa first to try our low-temperature exploration spacecraft, and by the way see if Europa really has life in the sub-ice ocean."
Chen Mengchuan's purpose spacecraft is clear. The main composition of Europa is very similar to that of terrestrial planets such as the Earth and Mars, and is mainly composed of silicate rocks. Moreover, judging from the data of multiple NASA detectors, the surface of Europa is covered with a large amount of water, which can be hundreds of kilometers thick. The upper layer is a frozen ice shell structure, and under the ice shell is a liquid ocean.
Magnetic field data collected by many exploration spacecraft orbiting Jupiter over the past few decades show that Europa can generate an induced magnetic field under the influence of Jupiter's magnetic field. This discovery implies that there is likely to be a conductive layer similar to a salty ocean inside its surface. From this series of comprehensive data, Europa may have a metallic iron core! The deeper the liquid ocean, the warmer the temperature.
Europa The theory that life may exist originated from this.
Chen Mengchuan It is not clear whether Europa is alive, but in the dream, the human government has conducted many in-depth explorations of Europa, but the data and information of these explorations have not been released to the ordinary people. Chen Mengchuan does not have this information channel, so it does not know the results of human exploration of Europa.
If there is no news, then there is news worthy of attention. Chen Mengchuan is very convinced that the human government may have hidden a lot of unknown information.
Europa, does it really have life?