Chapter 135 Small Base

At this moment, according to the orbital data of Jade that Han Yang had searched, the remaining voyage was about 36 billion kilometers.

The telescope on the Hope spacecraft still could not see the figure of Jade. Even though the voyage had entered the final stage.

Because at this moment, the distance was still about seven times the distance from the Earth to Pluto.

Too far, really too far.

Han Yang deeply felt the vastness of the universe.

In the past, these distances were just a number for Han Yang, and he lacked intuitive understanding. But now, after a real interstellar journey, Han Yang had such a real feeling.

This is only within the solar system.

In terms of the scale of the universe, Jade and the Earth can be regarded as close together. But even this little distance is so far away.

The Hope spacecraft began to decelerate with all its strength.

Time passed slowly. When there was only one month left before the scheduled voyage, the speed of the Hope spacecraft dropped to 1,030 kilometers per second, and the distance from Jade decreased to about 1.3 billion kilometers.

At this time, the telescope on the Hope spacecraft vaguely captured a small bright spot.

That was Jade.

Based on the visual coordinates, Han Yang began to accurately adjust the course of the Hope spacecraft. Finally, at a distance of about 100 kilometers from the surface of Jade, the speed of the Hope spacecraft dropped to only 600 meters per second relative to the planet, and successfully entered its orbit.

At this speed, the Hope spacecraft can circle it in about 2 hours and 42 minutes.

At this moment, what appeared in front of Han Yang through the telescope was an extremely magical world.

Jade is more than 220 billion kilometers away from the sun. But even at such a long distance, the sun seen from here is still extremely bright.

Its brightness reached -10.94.

This brightness is about one-fifth of the brightness of the full moon seen on Earth, and more than 260 times the brightness of the brightest Venus seen on Earth.

This brightness is enough to illuminate the earth of Yushen Star, and even cast a clear shadow.

The power of the sun is fully revealed in this way.

The earth of Yushen Star illuminated by the sun presents a dark red color.

Han Yang, who has been learning continuously from thousands of teachers, knows that it is the color of tholin.

Tholin is a complex copolymer molecule that can only be formed on distant and cold dwarf planets, and there is no corresponding substance on Earth.

It is organic and can be burned. In theory, Han Yang can generate electricity by burning tholin. However, Han Yang, who brought a nuclear fusion reactor on this trip, naturally looked down on this backward way of generating electricity.

On the dark red earth, there are undulating mountains, gullies and impact craters.

The surface of this small planet is not flat, and it is even difficult to find a place that can be called a plain.

If it has an atmosphere, then these mountains may be flattened under the blowing and erosion of the wind. Because it is too small and there is no crustal movement, it should present a more regular spherical shape.

Unfortunately, it has no atmosphere in the macroscopic sense, so the surface can only be so uneven.

But this is a good thing for Han Yang.

"I want unevenness."

Han Yang thought secretly, and after the Hope spacecraft entered orbit, he immediately remotely controlled the robot to open the belly of the spacecraft.

There is a small landing spacecraft and some resource exploration satellites.

The resource exploration satellite was released, away from the Hope spacecraft, and began to comprehensively survey the surface topography and resource reserves of the planet. The landing spacecraft landed on the surface of the planet and began to conduct on-site surveys.

The results of the survey made Han Yang quite satisfied.

Yushenxing is indeed a planet of little value. The specific manifestation of its worthlessness is that it also has a lot of mineral resources that can be seen everywhere in the universe, such as silicon, iron, aluminum, etc.

There are fewer resources in the universe, such as gold, silver, and rare earth. There is either no or only a little bit of them on it, which is not worth mining.

But this disadvantage can be overcome for Han Yang.

For bulk resources, Han Yang can get them locally on this planet. Rare resources are used in small quantities and can be transported directly from the earth.

This is also the meaning of the existence of the Fuxing Transport Fleet.

It took Han Yang half a month to survey the land of Yushenxing, which is about 8.45 million square kilometers in total.

After picking and choosing, Han Yang finally chose a huge canyon on Yushenxing as the place to build his first base.

It is a huge canyon with a length of more than 1,000 kilometers, a maximum width of more than 20 kilometers, a maximum depth of 4 kilometers, and an average depth of about 500 meters.

There are abundant mineral resources here, and the minerals with larger quantities can be obtained locally.

But this is not the most critical point.

The most critical point is that when there are more bases in the future, Han Yang can build a "lid" on this canyon to make a layer of concealment.

In this way, even if the Itar probe came, without careful observation, it would be impossible to detect that there was a huge base on this small planet.

This would improve safety and concealment as much as possible.

After determining the target location, dozens of robots in the cargo hold of the Hope spacecraft jointly pushed a standard cargo box with a mass of hundreds of tons and fixed it on another larger landing spacecraft.

The belly hatch of the Hope spacecraft opened, and the landing spacecraft landed towards the canyon with the cargo hold.

Some robots that landed here in advance have completed the initial site leveling.

They used electric heating to directly burn dry ice and solid hydrogen, oxygen and methane that had solidified on the surface and turned into solid ice. They also used machinery to cut some stones and transported sand and stones to fill the depressions. A flat ground about the size of a football field was cleared.

The ion thrusters on the landing spacecraft continued to reduce its speed, allowing the cargo hold to be placed on the ground steadily. The other robots immediately stepped forward, untied the steel cable, and the landing spacecraft flew away.

The cargo hold was opened by the robot, and more robots came out.

One by one, the cargo holds were continuously transported down. In a short period of time, more than a thousand robots gathered here, and more and more parts and equipment were piled up on the side.

High-power searchlights were set up, and more than a thousand robots began to work.

Under Han Yang's direct control, these robots cooperated with each other to the extreme, just like experienced skilled workers who had worked together for decades.

In less than a day, a small base covering an area of ​​about 100 square meters and five meters high was built.