After the astronauts walked in here, they started a careful inspection to see how the situation was here.
These are all what they will eat in the future. They will rely on these things to improve their food in the future. They need to be careful and take care of them.
After the five astronauts completed these tasks, they were ready to leave the base and go outside to perform today's mission.
Going outside is not like being inside the base, and you can't do it without the protection of a spacesuit.
Soon the five astronauts put on their spacesuits and left the Mars base through the isolation room.
After the astronauts left the base, they got on a special train and drove towards the distance against the rising sun on Mars.
Today the astronauts' destination is a nearby platinum mine, and it will be time to officially mine it soon.
Five astronauts rode a specially designed Mars rover to a basin near the base.
This basin contains a large amount of platinum ore, and all of them are shallow veins, which are quite simple to mine.
After the astronauts arrived at the mission site, they left the rover and walked toward the bottom of the basin.
Once here, they can't drive there, so they have to rely on their legs to walk the last part of the way.
Although this kind of Mars rover has been specially designed to adapt to the complex road conditions on the surface of Mars, the slope of this basin that cannot be descended has exceeded the maximum limit.
So now the astronauts have no choice but to walk slowly towards the bottom of the basin.
Fortunately, the attraction on Mars is smaller than that on Earth, so climbing up and down on Mars is not too tiring.
Otherwise, just going to the mining site will waste a lot of energy of the astronauts, not to mention that they will be needed to do other things later.
The basin is not particularly deep, and it only took the astronauts half an hour to reach the bottom.
When the astronauts arrived at the mining site, they discovered that they were not the first to come here.
There are now several mining robots at the bottom of the basin, on standby.
These mining robots are all sent in advance, and they can find Lu to come over from the base on their own.
This kind of mining robot is controlled by artificial intelligence, so it has a high degree of automation and can do many things by itself.
All the iron ore needed to build a Mars base is mined by these mining robots.
Without the ore provided by these mining robots, the Mars base cannot be built.
These robots, which don't look like much, play an irreplaceable role in the process of building a Mars base.
Now that they have completed their mission of mining iron ore, they will continue to serve humans on Mars.
But this time, the things these robots are mining are much more valuable than iron ore.
It is estimated that the iron ore mined by these robots for a year is not as much as the money they make from mining here in one day.
Because the ore here is platinum ore, and the iron ore has no qualifications to compare with the platinum ore. The difference between the two is simply clouds and mud.
Of course, it is impossible to mine platinum mines manually, so Jiang Cheng transferred the mining robot to be mainly responsible for the mining of platinum mines.
With this kind of never-tiring mining robot, the mining efficiency of platinum mines will certainly not be much lower.
Now these mining robots are waiting for instructions, and then it's time for them to show their talents.
After the astronauts arrived at the mission site, they began to conduct on-site inspections.
The data here are still the records from the last Mars mapping project, just a rough road.
They now need to conduct a detailed exploration of the surrounding area so that they can formulate a mining plan based on the on-site conditions.
Several astronauts took out something like a flashlight and started walking around.
That flashlight-like thing emits purple light and covers a very wide area.
This thing is Jiang Cheng's latest product, called a full-optical detector.
As long as it is illuminated by the purple light emitted by the detector, all data will be detected. It can be said to be a very convenient detector.
The astronaut Naruo probe quickly traveled around the area and collected all the conditions here.
The data collected by everyone is summarized to one person, who is also the captain of the five of them.
The leader of this five-person team is a middle-aged astronaut with very rich experience in space missions, so he was finally appointed as the leader of their team.
Captain, how is the situation? Is it much different from what we expected
After collecting nearby data, an astronaut walked up to their captain and asked about the final detection results.
The team leader lowered his head and glanced at the terminal device in his hand, and then said: "The situation is similar to what we thought, and the detailed detection results are basically no different from what we know.
The distribution of platinum mines is all within fifty meters of the surface, and the reserves are similar to those originally predicted.
It seems that this place is indeed very valuable for mining, and the conditions in all aspects are very good. "
They have just been testing the details of the vein. If this platinum vein is really worth mining, they will continue the following work.
If the depth of the veins is too large or the reserves are insufficient, it will not be worth their labor. In this case, they will have to change to another target.
Fortunately, their visit was not in vain. The mining value here is still very great, and it is not much different from the preliminary detection results.
Since this place could be used as the first platinum mine on Mars, the team leader did not hesitate and gave orders directly to his astronauts.
Get ready to start. First arrange the mining robot to carry out preliminary operations, clear out enough working sites, and then slowly start the ore mining work. "
After his order was issued, they officially began today's mission.
They want to start mining here and dig out all the platinum under their feet.
Of course, they are not required to do the digging themselves. The main work will naturally be done by robots (very well). All they have to do is plan and coordinate the work.
Soon this originally peaceful little basin was filled with noisy sounds.
The mining robot worked very quickly and soon dug out a piece of flat land as the working area for this mining site.
On this level ground, several pieces of smelting and forging equipment will be placed in the future.
The mining plan prepared by Jiang Cheng is to complete the smelting and forging work at the edge of the mine, which can save a lot of unnecessary trouble.
At least the astronauts don't have to transport a large amount of ore back and then smelt and purify it.
The integrated smelting and forging equipment can complete all the work. What comes out after putting in the crude platinum ore is a very pure platinum bond.
(End of chapter)