Chapter 1506 The Expanding Frontier

"We made it!"

"Right now, outside of us is Callisto, which is more than 700 million kilometers away from the earth... It may become 800 million or more kilometers over time, but no matter what."

"There is an atmosphere here, but it is not dense, and most of it is nitrogen. The colonization unit is operating well, the energy reserves are full, and the oxygen supply is OK. The next step is to send an all-terrain exploration vehicle to examine the terrain and resource distribution of Jupiter... ...Hou Tao, how long are you going to dawdle!"

He yelled at the intercom, and soon the answer came from the other end.

"Checking the hydraulic stabilization system...it'll be ready soon, give me five minutes."

"This lucky guy!" Cursed in a low voice, the astronaut turned back and continued to look at the camera and said, "According to the rules, we draw lots to decide who will be the first to land on Callisto. Although it is not as good as the first moon landing. and Mars, but it is also a big honor. I will cut the camera to the rover later, and Hou Tao will continue to record..."

After saying the last words, the astronaut reached out and tapped a few buttons on the trackpad to end the video recording.

According to the colonial propaganda strategy of Star Ring Trade, all colonization activities will be recorded into videos and sent to the Star Ring Space Command Center for backup. They will be edited by professionals and then published on the official website. Functions such as playback, downloading, and commenting will be open to all walks of life. .

In order to ensure the recording effect, each colonial ship is usually equipped with a retired reporter, or someone with experience in photography-related industries. Although there are still many differences between this research ship and a colonial ship. What landed here can only be regarded as a colonial outpost, but after all, it is the first time to land on Callisto, so the commemorative significance is still quite great. The survey ship is still A reporter with three years of working experience at the New National Broadcasting Corporation was assigned.

The screen quickly switched to the all-terrain exploration vehicle.

The astronaut, who was about 25 or 26 years old, put on the helmet, made a scissor hand gesture excitedly at the screen, and then pressed the red button on the control interface.

This is his first colonial mission and he has been training at the Astronaut Training Center on Anga Island. He has been preparing for this day for more than a year, so he is very excited at the moment.

With a sound like an air leak, the door of the buffer cabin slowly opened, and the rover drove towards this unknown land under his foot of the accelerator.

The entire planet is very dark, and the light from the sun has been very weak. On the contrary, Jupiter looks brighter. The areas illuminated by the headlights are gray-white or gray-black soil, while other areas are deep darkness.

Soon, he arrived at the first inspection point - a lake not far from the colonial outpost, which was the landing site of the second probe.

This lake is not big, at least compared to the large lake located at the south pole of Jupiter. The probe was floating in the middle of the lake and would be too difficult to recover, so the colonists didn't plan to worry about it for the time being.

The all-terrain rover was parked not far from the lake. The astronaut named Hou Tao slowly jumped out of the car and walked carefully to the lake. Unlike Mars, the gravity here is very low. You have to hold the cable when you get out of the car to avoid using too much force when doing the kangaroo jump and causing it to float in the sky.

Hydrocarbons are gases on Earth, but are liquid on the bitterly cold surface of Europa.

The liquid methane-ethane mixture is less viscous than water, so if you run your hand through Jupiter's lakes, you won't feel the same resistance as water.

All in all, it's an amazing experience, but it's best not to keep your hands in it for too long. Even if the spacesuit designed by Xinghuan Trading uses very advanced insulation materials, the heat scattering caused by the low-temperature fluid will still cause a considerable load on the spacesuit's constant temperature system.

Squatting by the lake, Hou Tao took out the sampler from the tool box, quickly collected about 200ml of liquid in the lake, and then stuffed it into the sample storage box of the car. The fluids will be taken back to the colonization unit for analysis,

Used to determine the composition and content ratio of hydrocarbons in the lake.

Immediately afterwards, he collected about twenty soil samples and planted flags with numbers on the ground. These soil samples are very helpful for investigating the geological environment and resource distribution of Callo, which is also their mission in the coming period.

After receiving the video data from the rover, the stationmaster of the outpost edited it and sent the data back to Earth. After doing all this, Lu Tao drove the rover back to the buffer cabin of the outpost. As the air pressure in the cabin was evacuated and then refilled with air, he jumped out of the car and walked into the disinfection room.

"The residual radiation level is normal."

"The amount of microbial adhesion...huh?"

When checking for microbial residues, Lu Tao unexpectedly discovered that there were tiny microbial residues on the soles of his shoes.

"What the hell is this..."

However, just when he wanted to further study what this microorganism was, he found through a microbial detector that the bacteria on the soles of his feet had lost their activity.

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On the second day after the colony module was launched, Starlink Trading released a video of the landing on Callisto on its official website.

Although the aerospace technology of the Star Ring Trade is no longer strange, no matter how many times I watch it, it is like a scene from a science fiction movie, and I will never tire of it no matter how many times I watch it.

The probe dropped first captured the entire landing of the colony capsule. When watching the silver-white spacecraft crashing on the surface of Jupiter, netizens from all over the world were amazed.

"Halo trade has begun to colonize Jupiter?"

"Where is Callisto? My sense of direction is not very good. In short, it is farther than Mars?"

"nonsense."

"Oh my God, I just want to know how many years it will take for them to fly out of the solar system."

"I bet fifty years."

"Fifty years is too long! I bet twenty years."

The video then played the exploration vehicle driving out of the colony module, and scientific researchers in spacesuits jumping out of the vehicle to complete a series of sampling tasks. This is the first time that Star Ring Trade has disclosed such a close alien colonization scientific research activity on its official website.

Not only netizens and astronomy enthusiasts around the world are paying attention to this video, but also some professional aerospace organizations such as ESA, NASA, Roscosmos, etc. are also paying close attention to this video.

Especially the European Space Agency, which was left out.

There are very few countries in Europe that have joined the Earth Defense Alliance. This feeling of being excluded makes many people feel deeply uneasy. Especially those aerospace workers who are fighting on the front line. They know very well what negative impact this will have on the development of European aerospace technology. They also know very well that if this continues, Europe will gradually lose touch with the world...

However, how can a mere scientific researcher influence the decision-making of big shots?

"Halo Trade has already begun to colonize Jupiter? Didn't they just land on Mars not long ago? Damn it, can they digest such a large project?"

"I don't know about that...and I heard that Star Ring Trade has also invited other members of the Earth Defense Alliance to join in this colonization plan."

"What?!"

"I have asked the European Commission more than once to seriously consider the need to join the Earth Defense Alliance, whether it is to jointly respond to crises or from a development perspective... However, I have not received any reply yet."

"Damn, what on earth were those idiots thinking."

"Only the devil knows!"

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