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Although Captain Qiu's exploration and everyone including Wang Bin were a little disappointed, they were not too persistent. After all, being able to find three kinds of substances on Mars that did not exist on Earth was already very important to them. Surprised.

Finally, not long after Peng Ming’s simple take-off and landing runway was completed, the support fleet after sailing for nearly half a month finally reached the orbit of Mars, and after reaching the orbit of Mars, the Phoenix-1 and space fighters , did not make any stops, and immediately plunged into the atmosphere of Mars, preparing to land, while other types of aerospace aircraft, that is, those with larger volumes, did not enter the atmosphere.

After all, the runway on Mars is still a suggested runway at this time, and it does not have the takeoff and landing capability to withstand the takeoff and landing of large and super large aerospace aircraft.

But fortunately, the fleet that came to support this time carried enough engineering construction personnel, related equipment and even some engineering construction materials, such as high-grade special cement, etc. These cements not only It has very strong strength and can also be used in an oxygen-free or even vacuum environment.

Of course, due to the very limited size and load capacity of the aircraft, the quantity of these materials is actually very limited, only a few hundred tons. With such a quantity, if you really want to build a standard aircraft on Mars It's not enough to get down the runway.

Therefore, these materials are not actually used to build aircraft takeoff and landing runways, but to build residences for ground personnel. After all, compared to ground runways, this is what ground personnel urgently need.

Because with the completion of the construction of the take-off and landing runway, their original Phoenix-1 aerospace plane will participate in the transportation of various materials together with other Phoenix-1 aerospace planes that came to support, including Transportation of various professionals.

"Captain, our Brick has reached more than 1,400 meters underground at this time! But even at this depth, we still haven't found any traces of liquid water. Is there no liquid water below?" One of Peng Ming's drilling team members asked him with a bored face.

"Don't worry! According to my experience and the data analysis of the spaceship, there is definitely liquid below us, and there is a probability of more than 80% that it is liquid water. In addition, there are liquid water above the liquid water. , and there may be a layer of liquid methane." Before Peng Ming could answer his question, another team member returned.

This team member is not the team member who drilled with Peng Ming and the others before, but a person who has just arrived on Mars to support, and compared to Peng Ming and the others, they are not professionals in this field. They are far inferior to Peng Ming in other aspects, but they are experts in drilling work, so after hearing a team member's inquiry, they immediately returned to Dao.

"But until now we haven't found any trace of liquid water,

However, even if we did not find liquid water in this drilling, it is not completely fruitless. After all, solid water Mars does exist, and there are still a lot of them. At least after treatment, it can meet the production and living needs of tens of millions of people. . said another player.

That's right, compared to liquid water and solid water, Peng Ming and others have already drilled it, and there are still many more.

At this time, a team member suddenly discovered the abnormality of the drilling machine, so he immediately said loudly in the communication device: "Captain! There is an abnormality in the drilling machine. We seem to have drilled through the ice layer, and after the calculation of the machine's load, etc. , the bottom is not empty, but there is a liquid, it is very likely to be the liquid water we are looking for?"

"No! This is definitely not liquid water. It should have drilled into the liquid methane layer. After all, according to the data, the depth we drilled at this time is less than the previous 500 meters. But according to the data, the minimum thickness of liquid water , also below 1,600 meters underground.

At the same time, the previous data just happened to show that there is a layer of liquid methane about 50 meters high above the liquid water, so what we drilled should be liquid methane, but since we have reached the liquid state methane layer.

Well, according to the data, we're not too far away from where liquid water exists right now. "After hearing what this team member said, Peng Ming was also full of excitement, and immediately put on his head and looked at the equipment.

After hearing his words, the other team members were also very happy, and they immediately cheered up and worked harder.

Finally, after another ten minutes or so, they drilled into the ice layer again, but compared to the previous ice layer, the hardness of the ice layer here is not so hard, it is only equivalent to the hardness of ordinary ice That's all.

This made the experienced professional very excited, and then said: "Captain, what we drilled now should be ice made of pure water, not like the previous one. In fact, it is not purely formed by water, besides coal, there are other substances, such as dry ice, mud and stones."

"That's great, it means that we are about to reach the goal we want this time, everyone work harder!" Peng Ming said.

However, just after Peng Ming's words fell, the drill bit of the drilling rig suddenly became faster.

"Captain! We succeeded, we successfully drilled into the liquid water of Mars!" At this moment, the professional driller said.

And the captain also looked excited, but he didn't get carried away, but immediately ordered! Immediately turn on the drill bit and the heating equipment inside the pipe, and start pumping the underground liquid, and then check whether it is really liquid water. "

"It's the captain!" Following Peng Ming's order, the team members immediately began to operate their equipment.

At the same time, intense cheers erupted from the No. 2 drilling rig not far from them. Obviously, the No. 2 drilling rig had also reached the target area.

The same is true for the No. 1 drilling rig, and the No. 2 drilling rig will also start pumping underground liquid immediately to see if it is real liquid water.

Although the place where the groundwater they drilled is 1,600 to 700 meters underground, in less than ten minutes, they completed the heating of the drill bit and the pipeline, and successfully pumped out the underground liquid. up.

"How is the situation? Is what we drilled groundwater?" Peng Ming immediately asked the experimenter after the underground liquid was successfully pumped up!

In fact, Peng Ming was still a little worried at this time, because the color of the extracted underground liquid was a bit wrong. You must know that the water on the earth is colorless and transparent, but the extracted underground water is not colorless. Instead, it had a faint red color, and in the dark, they also found that there was a faint light in the liquid, which made Peng Ming and the others very worried, for fear that their efforts during this period of time would be in vain.