The Guanghan Palace base is currently stationed with 7 astronauts with a per capita of 67 cubic meters; Outpost 1 has two astronauts, each with 16 cubic meters.
The difference in quality of life between the two sides is very obvious. Outpost 1 even takes a bath. If it weren’t for Hawke and Wade Keli’s temporary lounge, life would be more difficult.
But NASA is also very resistant. It is not that they don’t want to be equipped with perfect living facilities, but that the economy does not allow the addition of two new Saturn V rockets. The launch failed, which led to the planning of the 115-ton module design and the final loss of two modules.
And the next batch of space capsules is planned to be launched in September this year.
But Hawke and Wade are worried that their supply will last for about 136 days. If the support launch fails in November, it can wait until October or November.
They can pray in their hearts and hope everything goes well. They don’t want to starve to death on the moon.
After the program Life on the Moon was broadcast, it was "The Frontiers of the Moon", which mainly talked about some experiments and planning.
Of course, since the program is broadcast, it must have been audited and screened, and there will be no technical leaks.
For example, outpost 1, a project of geological exploration in Hongwan, is now being broadcast, and both sides have found much the same.
However, outpost 1 didn’t carry large-scale drilling equipment, and it can mine the moon soil and moon rock on the ground, unlike Guanghan Palace base, which can drill to hundreds of meters.
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Shi Keji pointed to rows of strata samples and introduced the specific situation of Hongwan’s surface to the ground for 24 meters.
"The 5-27-meter rock and soil layer found at the No.1 drilling hole contains about 13%-42% ice crystals, which means that there is a permafrost-like layer in the lunar strata."
Shi Keji went on to say, "However, a small amount of liquid water was found in the 56-4 meter rock stratum."
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"And we found a liquid water layer in the stratum of 132~16 meters, and the water abundance of these places is not far from our expected calculation."
Seeing Shi Keji pick up a bottle of lunar water, Hawke said enviously, "They don’t need to transport water from Blue Star later. The gap is getting bigger and bigger. Do we really have a chance to turn over?"
"Who knows? This is not a problem that we should worry about. Anyway, those gentlemen will not give up easily, "replied Wade Tantan."
Hawke also took out a tablet computer with a depressed face and recorded some data for future drilling reference.
Little by little, after watching a short sci-fi film, they got into their sleeping bags and had a rest.
the other side
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Shi Keji and another astronaut are driving an SUV and slowly exploring around the base. At this time, they are already 12 kilometers away from the base.
This is the first time that the two men have carried out surface exploration. On average, they have carried out surface exploration once or twice a month. At present, they have mapped the area with a radius of 12~26 kilometers.
Although there are geological remote sensing satellites, remote sensing satellites are not omnipotent, and often manual auxiliary exploration is needed.
The searchlight of the off-road vehicle shines on the ground ahead. Although the moon and sea plain are the main ones, it does not mean that the terrain is flat.
Sand dunes, gullies and small craters can be seen everywhere, and there are very dangerous quicksand areas here.
The reason for the formation of quicksand area is that there are cracks in the ground and the surface is covered with lunar soil, which looks similar to ordinary ground. Once the surface passes by, the weight of vehicles exceeds the bearing capacity of quicksand, sudden subsidence may occur.
In the sixth surface exploration, Qianshi Keji found that the off-road vehicle directly sank when passing through the quicksand area.
Fortunately, when the off-road vehicle has an emergency ejection system, the two people will be successfully ejected, and they will return to the ground a little bit with the low gravity of the moon and the exoskeleton space booster.
Although they lost an SUV, they finally had a thrill.
Afterwards, Shi Keji re-explored the quicksand area, which is about 14 kilometers away from the base. The deepest position of the cave formed by a ground fault is 53 meters and the average depth is 27 meters.
However, in every cloud has a silver lining, they found a rare lead-zinc mine in this stratum, although the amount after exploration is 110-150 thousand tons of lead and 20-40 thousand tons of zinc.
However, the lead-zinc mine and the moon are relatively rare minerals, because lead and zinc are volatile elements, while the lunar surface rocks lack volatile elements, siderophiles and alkali metals, but are rich in refractory elements.
The so-called volatile elements refer to rubidium, lead, bismuth, arsenic, mercury, copper, cadmium and barium; While the siderophiles refer to gold, silver and platinum.
These elements are relatively rare and poor elements in the rock and soil layer on the moon surface.
Refractory elements refer to thorium, cobalt, chromium and rare earth elements, which are relatively abundant on the moon surface and belong to rich elements.