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Chapter 76 – Mariner Grand Canyon

On the twenty-eighth day of the China Mars mission landing on the surface of Mars, a Martian base made of Martian mud quietly rose up on the Chris Lava Plain.

It is made by pouring concrete layer by layer made of Martian mudstones used by 3D printing modular robots. It has no edges and corners and has an inclined surface structure, which can minimize the damage from Martian dust storms.

There is an inner wall inside the outer wall, and the two walls are filled with dry ice and dust to resist radiation. Inside, everyone directly filled the materials and various inflatable modules from the spacecraft.

According to the initial structure, sleeping cabins, laboratories, hydroponic greenhouses, etc. are composed, and the outside solar panels, wind speed alarms, temperature sensors, etc. have also been laid.

It can be said that this Mars base has basically taken shape and can satisfy ten astronauts to survive for two to three years.

“Everyone, celebrate the completion of the first phase of our Mars base!” In the Mars base, Du Xingyu and his teammates had a dinner together to celebrate.

In addition to dry food and instant canned food, they also have fresh bean sprouts grown in the plant cultivation room these days.

If it weren’t for the other space seeds they brought, such as space eggplants and potatoes, they could even cook a small hot pot this time.

“Cheers!” In the restaurant, everyone raised their glasses. They don’t have alcohol, but they have drink powder, which is put into water and sugar is added to make a drink.

“Finally they have a home on Mars!” Su Peng said with emotion. These days, they have encountered another Martian dust storm. Fortunately, the wind was not strong, and there was an early warning system, so it was avoided in time.

“Our Mars base has not been officially named yet? Let’s take an official name together!” Xu Lianqiu suggested.

“Okay, okay!” The two lesbians Shen Yan and Jiao Mengyun immediately agreed.

Astronaut Yao Feng suggested: “It’s called’Mars One Base’, simple and easy to remember.”

Others gave him a white look at the same time, and Shen Yan said: “This name is too bad, at least it must be a memorial name.”

“Yes, it’s better to bring a little Chinese culture. This is also in line with our space agency’s consistent naming method.” Xu Rui said.

“Yinghuo has been used as the name of the spaceship…what else?” Everyone thought.

Xu Lianqiu thought for a moment, and said, “The moon base is called Guanghan Palace, and the base of Mars, shouldn’t it be called Zhurong Hall?”

“Mars, in the Chinese mythology, represents the Huo De Xingjun, one of the twenty-eight stars, that is, the God of Fire. It is recorded in the “Historical Records” that the God of Fire is Zhu Rong, the son of Zhuan Xu, and the name is Li. So the name here is named Li. Zhu Rongdian? How is it?”

“Not bad!” Du Xingyu agreed, “It just corresponds to the Guanghan Palace and spreads our culture to the world.”

“Good name!” said Jiao Mengyun, “this is it, right?”

“Agree!” Shen Yan raised his hand, no one else had any objection, so their first base on Mars was named “Zhu Rongdian”.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

After the dinner, Du Xingyu re-planned the task.

He said: “We are divided into three groups. The construction team led by Su Peng will continue to build the Zhurong Temple base. I lead the research team to collect materials on the surface of Mars. Shen Yan, your information team, is responsible for contacting and monitoring environmental changes.”

“Yes!” Everyone finds their own things and starts to work.

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Du Xingyu will stay on Mars for another month. He does not need to do geological exploration and other tasks. It’s a rare visit to Mars. The most important mission of their research team is to find traces of life on Mars!

Is there life on Mars? This is a question that humans have been curious about for thousands of years. Every Mars rover is trying to find traces of life on Mars. Before that, they have already made some discoveries.

Geological exploration of Mars can tell that there was an ocean on Mars in ancient times, and there might be life on Mars at that time.

Even now, there is water ice and seasonal liquid water on Mars. During the exploration of the Mars rover, they discovered that there are traces of water ice on the poles, ground floor and some meteorite impact craters of Mars.

On the Chris Plain, Du Xingyu took Xu Lianqiu, Xu Rui, and Yao Feng in a Mars rover, heading to the Sailor Canyon.

On the way, Du Xingyu also took a video, which was to be posted later, he explained: “One of the reasons why we chose Chris Plain as the landing site is because it is one of the lowest places on the surface of Mars.”

“Many ancient rivers once flowed through the Chris Plains. It connects the largest canyon on Mars and the largest canyon in the solar system, the Mariner Canyon. This is a complex canyon system with a length of 4,000 kilometers and a depth of 7 kilometers. The Grand Canyon is 10 times longer and 5 times deeper!”

“We are going to the end of the Mariner’s Grand Canyon now to see if we can find ice or liquid water.”

Du Xingyu posted the video, and it took more than four minutes before it was transmitted to the earth and posted on the Internet.

“Updated again! Finally left the base!”

“There must be Martians, maybe we are the immigrants of Martians!”

“Be careful, don’t run into Martian dust storm again!”

“Come on, Ollie!”

Du Xingyu’s Dousheng fans now reach more than 50 million, making him the top traffic and big influencer. And this number is still rising with each update of him!

A few hours later, they came to the edge of the Mariner’s Grand Canyon.

“My God, it’s really here, it’s horrible, I don’t know how to describe it!” Xu Rui was shocked looking at the scene in front of him.

They stood at the end of the Mariner’s Grand Canyon, the largest canyon in the solar system unfolding before their eyes. Here, Mars is like a huge 4,000-kilometer-long wound cut open by a single knife. This rift valley can be clearly seen even from space!

Looking forward from the edge of the rift valley, even the horizon was cut in half! The gully in front of us went from shallow to deep, to a bottomless abyss! It seems to go straight to the underworld!

Before such natural wonders, they once again felt the insignificance of human beings.

“Huh!” Du Xingyu exhaled for a long time, and said, “Go ahead, we don’t have to go deep into the Grand Canyon.”

“Try to find the traces of the underground river, preferably where the sun can shine.”

Based on the data detected by Tianwen-1, it is inferred that during the high temperature in summer, the water ice in some areas will melt seasonally. In such places, traces of microorganisms may be found.

Small drones were released to detect the surrounding geographic environment. An hour later, they selected five target areas, respectively driving the Mars rover and the folding Mars motorcycle, and went to the field for field investigation and sampling.

The first day’s work was limited, but they found pebbles on the ancient river bed. There is no damage caused by biological activities on the surface of Mars, so traces from billions of years ago are clearly visible until now!

It was not until the eighth day that they found traces of water.

Here is the remains of an ancient lake, located at the end of the Mariner Grand Canyon. Several ancient rivers flow into this low-lying land, forming a huge lake.

There should be some water ice in the sand under the lake ruins. After being irradiated by the sun, some of the water ice melted to form slightly moist soil.