Eight Hundred and Ninety-Three The Brightest Star in the Sky

When it comes to alien plants, most people will instinctively think of insect trees, which are the ones sent to Earth by aliens. Only a very few people know that the ones on Earth are actually just one of the insect tree family.

Ye Han is one of them. As early as when the first fleet was on an expedition to Jupiter, he had observed photos of Jupiter's moon Jupiter at close range. At that time, Jupiter's moon Jupiter was still in a global freeze and its surface could not be seen.

But when the second fleet arrived at Jupiter, Jupiter's moon Jupiter had become a lush and habitable planet, with large forests on its surface.

Combining the prisoner log, it is not difficult to find that after the first expedition ended in failure, Jupiter's moon Jupiter quickly recovered, and the plants grew rapidly, covering the surface of the planet in a short time.

However, at that time, the plants on Jupiter's moon Jupiter were still mainly white and brown, and green was almost invisible. Continuing to analyze the prisoner log, it is very likely that the aliens were preparing for Jupiter's departure. They sowed a large number of insect trees on the surface of the planet, so they harvested a large amount of food in a very short time, laying a solid material foundation for Jupiter's flight to Earth.

Many biologists believe that although alien plants are not green, there must be something similar to chlorophyll in their cells.

However, this view is not popular, because Europa Zero was still near Jupiter at the time, where the light received was only 4% of that on Earth, but the insect tree grew fast and well.

In the absence of light, it can still grow smoothly. No matter how you look at it, the insect tree does not grow by photosynthesis.

According to human understanding of the biological world, the insect tree should be a special plant that grows by chemosynthesis, but human understanding of biology is limited to the Earth. God knows whether alien organisms have other ways of growth.

Some scholars also studied what would happen if insect trees were added with chlorophyll, but before the results of this research came out, various countries took the lead in banning this research to prevent those crazy scientists from creating new insect trees with unknown capabilities.

Since then, no research institution has been allowed to conduct research on transforming insect trees, and it is still the case today.

But no one expected that after Europa Zero revived again, the first batch of plants growing on the surface would also be green!

Now, a month has passed, and the plants of the year 0 of Jupiter are no longer the same as when they first sprouted. Instead, they have formed a lush green ocean, with large grasslands and large shrubs. It is only a matter of time before large forests appear.

Li Shili looked at the vegetation all over Jupiter and couldn't help sighing. There are snow-capped mountains and deserts on Earth, but Jupiter is full of green plants. If it weren't for the fact that the time is too short and the height is not high enough, it would be even higher than the tropical rainforest.

It's not strange to think about it. Aliens are best at tinkering with organisms. What's the point of transforming a few plants that adapt to deserts or other extreme environments?

He even had an idea that should never appear: it would be great if he could get the special plants cultivated by aliens. In that case, all the Gobi deserts on Earth could be turned into oases...

Of course, he was just thinking about it. Plants transformed by aliens definitely don't have any problems adapting to the environment. Instead, we should worry about the consequences of alien plants invading the earth.

Another thing is that Gobi and desert are now one of the important means for humans to resist insect swarms. Just imagine, if the Sahara Desert becomes the Sahara Oasis, how many giant insects can it support? How many giant ants will rush into the oasis desert and advance all the way to North Africa?

Once upon a time, the Gobi Desert was an insurmountable natural barrier between human civilizations. So far, they are still a field that insect swarms cannot conquer.

This reminds Li Shili of a saying: Feng Shui turns around!

At this moment, an extremely conspicuous light suddenly flashed on the screen. This light came from the middle of the northern hemisphere of Jupiter. From the perspective of the warship, there was a lush grassland there, and there could be no reflective material.

Speaking of reflective materials, we must talk about Jupiter. Three-quarters of its surface is covered by water. If the angle of observation is appropriate,

the sunlight reflected from the water surface will be extremely dazzling, making it the brightest star in the sky!

This is not a joke, nor is it a literary style of writing, but a true fact - Jupiter is located 60 million kilometers ahead of the Earth, and its orbit around the sun is extremely similar to the Earth's orbit, and the positions of the two planets have hardly changed.

Every clear dawn, people who get up early can see an extremely bright star in the eastern sky. People with good eyesight can even find that the star is just a small crescent at the beginning, and gradually becomes a semicircle with the pace of dawn, and the brightness is getting higher and higher until dawn, when its light will be covered by the rising sun.

And the brightness of this star is not always constant, it is sometimes brighter, sometimes darker, but no matter what time, it is much brighter than the morning star!

This star is Jupiter. Observations have found that its brightness is caused by rotation. When the land is facing the Earth, the brightness is lower, and when the ocean is facing the Earth, the brightness is significantly higher, and the brightest part is always only a crescent, which is the sunlight reflected by the arc-shaped sea surface!

Venus is closer to the Earth when it transits, but no matter what time, Venus is not as bright as Jupiter. This is because Venus is wrapped in a thick atmosphere and is not as reflective as the surface of the water; secondly, when Venus transits the sun, it is between the earth and the sun, and no matter how bright it is, it is not as bright as the sun.

So today, Jupiter is definitely the brightest star in the sky.

Of course, the brightest or the darkest is useless, and no one appreciates the unique reflection of Jupiter's moon. Everyone's first reaction when seeing it is to immediately think of aliens and giant insects.

The reflection that Li Shili saw was not on the water surface, so it immediately attracted his attention. At the same time, the eyes of others were also attracted by the flash.

Just a few seconds later, the flash appeared again, and Ye Han frowned: "This is not a natural phenomenon, zoom in on this point for me!"

The bridge officer in charge of observation immediately operated the equipment to zoom in the picture. The picture on the screen flashed several times in succession, and a grassland appeared on the screen. It was vaguely seen that there were several aliens standing on the grassland looking up at the sky.

"Continue!" Ye Han suddenly shouted.

The picture was enlarged several times, and the group of aliens occupied half of the screen. Everyone finally saw the situation there clearly: among the aliens, there was an alien with an unusually short stature. In front of him was a giant insect that was bigger than a millstone. The shell on the back of the giant insect was crystal clear, like a dazzling gem, and it was extra large.