The BFS spacecraft plunged into the Martian atmosphere!
By the time the news arrived from Mars orbit, five minutes had already passed.
Lu Zhou's first reaction was, Damn! His second was to marvel at just how ruthless those people at NASA were!
The BFS spacecraft could have malfunctioned at any time, yet it had to happen now. What a coincidence. If anyone claimed it was an accident, he would never believe it!
Especially since it was actually simple to destroy a spacecraft like this. All they had to do was lower its orbit until it touched the atmosphere, then wait for the planet's gravity to drag it back down for a controlled crash.
Once satellites reached the end of their service lives, most were disposed of this way, guided to fall into regions far from land.
Still, Lu Zhou had not expected the Americans to be this willing to pay the price. They would rather smash the BFS spacecraft than let his astronauts take a look at it...
It wasn't like looking at it would get anyone pregnant. Did they really need to be this worked up?
At the ground command center, Hou Guang stood beside Lu Zhou and cast him an inquiring look.
"What do we do now?"
Lu Zhou pondered for a moment before speaking.
"Can we determine the coordinates where the BFS spacecraft crashed?"
Hou Guang shook his head. "...We can't pinpoint the exact coordinates. Mars's current atmospheric conditions make it impossible to observe the surface directly. However, although we can't observe it directly, we can roughly calculate the area where it may have crashed from its descent trajectory."
Lu Zhou immediately said,
"Mark the estimated area. I need to know its relative position to the New Virginia outpost."
"Yes."
After waiting quietly beside the console for