Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Artificial biosphere technology in the United States is indeed not insignificant.

There are no problems with the design of the entire life support unit, and it can even be said that the design is quite perfect.

From air cycle systems to water filtration systems and automated irrigation installations in cultivated areas, each resource can be used with maximum efficiency, basically one foot on the frontier of science and fantasy.

Even on the side of the entire life support unit, a circular interface of about three metres in diameter was reserved, presumably for the expansion of colonial size.

Just as Space-X and NASA had shown ambition in the Ares plan, they were serious about building New Virginia into a 100-person colony and achieving an artificial and enclosed ecosystem self-cycle through self-farming through the abundance of methane and carbon dioxide resources on Mars.

The only problem, or ark, the only place where ecological expats can pick up problems, is probably Ares' plan to push it forward too quickly, and encounter a global sandstorm that doesn't know how long it will last...

Natural disasters accounted for 70%, and anthropogenic factors accounted for up to 30%, and NASA was indeed in bad luck this time.

If this dust storm hadn't come too suddenly, perhaps the colonists of New Virginia would have stood on Mars. Once geothermal wells and methane resource collection sites have been successfully deployed, even in the event of a global sandstorm, solar power plants cannot function and can be sustained by other functional means until the end of the sandstorm.

Of course, these are horse cannons.

After downloading all the data in the life support unit, the ark used a small amount of energy to unlock the sample library of the life support unit and the door to the sample library corridor.

The alloy door embedded on the wall of the experimental zone slowly opened, and high carbon dioxide concentrations of air filled the experimental zone for a moment. If there were any living people in it, they probably would have had difficulty breathing by now.

But for a “crawler," it's just a breeze past.

Through a dusty corridor, this flexible little guy quickly moved into the sample library and a neatly arranged row of sample racks appeared in front of the lens.

Labels affixed to the sample rack indicate that the samples of rocks from the regions surrounding the New Virginia colony are stored here, whereas those recorded with numerical and alphabetical markings are the coordinates and depth of sampling.

Although these astronauts travelling to Mars are nominally called "colonizers”, in fact their daily tasks are mainly based on scientific expeditions.

And these precious samples are one of their scientific results.

“It seems that the experimental area has no direct access to the sample library… it is a shame that these things were not taken away.” Looking at the samples presented here, a sorry look on the face of the ark sitting next to the terminal.

If we can bring these samples back to Earth, human knowledge of Mars will surely rise to a new height.

Regrettably, however, the situation at the time did not allow the colonizers to take all these precious samples with them to their return compartments, so much so that they could only abandon them here.

Em: [Master, do you want to start the scanner? 0.0]

The ark nodded down and said, "Well, let's get started. ”

After a quiet wait of five or six minutes, wait for the Mars car in the reservoir to move to the first row of racks and gently probe a searchlight component from the top.

As the blue light slowly emerges from that tapered opening, the samples displayed on the shelf are enclosed sequentially.

According to the information carried by the reflected beam, under the processing of special algorithms, a series of physical information such as the content of each rock element, particle size, etc. are fed back to the control terminal in front of the ark.

Not only that, depending on the location and depth of each rock sample sampled, these data were quickly populated into the corresponding areas of the map.

In less than a dozen minutes, a circular resource distribution map of about 10-20 kilometres in diameter allows those data to be presented together in front of the ark.

Looking at this resource map, the face of the ark suddenly emerged with interest.

The data that could have been obtained from the life-support unit is already very profitable, I didn't expect to get such an unexpected gain from this life-support unit!

According to the data on this graph, there are at least two intermittent methane vents near the ruins of New Virginia, as well as a suspected underground ice layer in a shallow area!

Although as early as March 19, the ESA Mars Express probe had found traces of liquid water under the Mars Antarctic ice cap, and earlier NASA had published a paper on the discovery of perchlorate halogens in meteorite craters, it was clear that those resources, which existed under extreme conditions and were unevenly distributed, were difficult to utilize directly.

The help of future colonial Mars would undoubtedly be immense if it were possible to determine an underground ice layer with sufficient reserves and relatively shallow depth!

“… it appears that NASA actually has much more information about Mars than they publish and distribute. ”

Staring at the area marked with suspected underground ice, the ark pondered for a moment, reaching out and knocking twice on the keyboard to mark the area out.

There is no need to be punctual, Em immediately understood what he meant.

Em: [Master, do you need to explore this area? (o ") o ]

The ark nodded and said, "Well, when the ruins of the new Virginia colonial station have been investigated, let the crawlers go for a walk. If you find underground ice, report it to me immediately. ”

Xiao Ai: [Yes! (๑ • ㅂ • ∙)✧]

Finally witnessed the honor of the life support unit and the black technology of NASA, and the curiosity of the ark was satisfied.

The rest of the job, even without him staring at it, would perfectly execute what he ordered.

After instructing Em to keep as much of the life support unit as possible, the ship copied the data from the terminal into a mobile hard disk, then took the mobile hard disk through the underground lab access control and took the elevator back to the first floor of the main building of the Institute of Advanced Studies.

The phone was removed from his pocket, the ark opened the address book for a while and a number was soon broadcast.

The phone rang twice and was immediately connected.

A few tired voices in the sand came from the other end of the phone.

“Hello?”

Ark: “Is that Professor Hu? ”

When he heard the sound of the ark, Hu Yang slightly stunned and opened his mouth.

“Yes… are you Professor Lu? ”

“Yes, I'm an ark,” paused for a moment, the ark continued, “where are you now? ”

“I'm on the side of the Space Research Institute of the Jinghua Academy of Sciences… What can I do for you? ”

“Yes,” without too much chills, the ark briefly went straight to the point, “If you have time, please come to the Jinling Institute of Higher Studies, I have something on the phone that is not easy to say to you personally.

For a moment, Professor Hu held his breath.

With a slightly uncertain tone of excitement, he quivered: "… is it related to the spark plan? ”

as if it had responded to his expectations.

The next sentence of the ark instantly rejuvenated the excitement in his eyes.

“Yes, it has to do with the spark plan! ”