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The current space race structure is a two-tiered situation. The first echelon is the competition between China and the United States, which is also the most important competition. The combination of China's future plus cnsa and the combination of spacex and nasa are fighting each other openly and secretly. The most popular and the focus of most attention;
The second echelon is the European Space Agency, the French Riviera base, Germany, Russia and other countries, followed by large giant companies, some of which have huge funds.
But it also lacks technical background, and is still catching up at the starting line. Except for Alphabet and Amazon, which are labeled with great potential, the rest are stretched out in technology and capital, but they are not far behind trying to be in this "wave". 'touch' fish in muddy water in 'tide'.
As the 21s are drawing to a close, the fiery space race has reached an unprecedented situation under today's situation, as if a dose of stimulant has been planted and began to crazily stimulate human beings to go beyond the earth and the entire civilization. promote.
Mars high orbit.
Since the "Terminator" meteorite, this huge "Amethyst" hit Mars, it not only pulled down the two Mars satellites, but also dragged the proud American probes in Mars orbit into the surface of Mars.
However, a few years ago, NASA once again launched a brand new probe to the orbit of Mars-Observer 5.
Today's Mars landscape has undergone earth-shaking changes. The largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, has been flattened, and the largest canyon in the solar system, Sailor Valley, has also been filled.
Petzos Heights.
This name is a new name given by NASA to an area on the surface of Mars that has been scheduled as a landing site. The Pezos Highlands are not high, and it is also located in the Mavos Valley area.
However, with the impact of the "Terminator" asteroid, the topography of the surface of Mars has undergone tremendous changes, and the Mavos Valley has also been deeply affected, and the name of Pezos Highlands comes from this.
Mars, this planet was one of the most active planets in the solar system in ancient times, and the largest volcano in the solar system-"Olympus Volcano" is on this planet.
The surface of Mars is also filled with a large number of volcanoes. You can imagine what this planet used to look like. Mars should have been a "crazy" planet.
Stars move, time passes, after billions of years have passed, Mars today is no longer active, and the last volcanic eruption was discovered by scientists 200 million years ago.
Moreover, there are basically no active volcanoes on Mars today.
Due to many factors such as the ratio of the surface area to the volume of Mars, the gravity of Mars itself, and many other factors, the biggest difference between the volcanoes on Mars and the volcanoes on Earth is the volume of the volcano.
But today, with the disappearance of volcanic activity, Mars, which was once restless, has fallen into a deep sleep today. When the volcanic activity disappeared, the caves hovering under the surface of Mars have criss-crossed and formed the most complicated underground. 'Traffic Network.
Mars is full of volcanoes almost everywhere, and such a network of karst caves fills almost every corner of Mars. As long as there are volcanoes, there is such a terrain network.
This is a unique geographical feature of Mars. The Pezos Highlands is an extinct volcano that has died for hundreds of millions of years.
At this moment, the Pezos Highlands are about to enter dusk, and the "Observer 5" launched by NASA has just passed over the Pezos Highlands, and therefore missed the most incredible discovery-life on Mars.
In a small canyon around the highlands, there is a karst cave with a diameter of about 4.5 meters on the cliff. It used to be one of the tunnels where volcanic magma flowed, but no magma has flowed from here for more than 20 billion years.
This planet is not a forbidden zone for life as humans know it.
The extremely harsh environment and atmospheric structure on the surface of the planet is indeed a forbidden area for life, but this is limited to the surface.
When the volcanoes everywhere on Mars died gradually, the magma receded, and the tunnels inside the volcanoes became the last safe haven for life on this planet.
A creature with a history of more than 20 billion years has survived on this planet, and it is also the only large-scale creature left on this planet.
In the cave channel where the small canyon is located, it is advancing at a speed that is neither fast nor slow. This is from the eyes of humans. In fact, it moves very slowly, and it is also a failed competitor.
He lost the competition for mating rights in another male of the same kind, and was lucky to escape the blood of his opponent.
Now it has become an ascetic monk. He escaped from the lair deep in the ground. It is covered with scars all over its body.
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After leaving the water, for the oxygen the body needs, it starts to consume its own water to produce the oxygen it needs. This is undoubtedly a slow suicide, but it is also the best way at present.
It is already a miracle to be able to come here alive, because for creatures in this population, failure from the competition for mating rights often means that they will become the winner's feast, especially in a bad environment where Mars does not grow, which is the most A rare meal.
For the only remaining species on Mars, this is not just a competition for mating rights, but also a contest of life and death. The victor will mate with the female and get everything of the loser.
Including its body, while the loser has nothing, even the flesh must become the food of the winner, this is the cruelest competition.It was a miracle that it escaped.
At this moment, it crawled to a steep slope, and the other end after the top was a steep slope with an inclination of up to 60 degrees. Such a steep slope is not a serious problem for this kind of creature.
But it was an exception, it was hurt too badly, its breath was getting weaker and weaker, what was waiting for it was the arrival of death, it couldn't pass through this steep cave slope safely at all.
But it has to move forward. When it crosses the top of the cave, its whole body accidentally slides down like a rolling stone in the steep cave. Its body can curl up into a sphere to protect itself, and it rolls madly in the cave and dies. Down.
Pezos highlands, outside the canyon, at the mouth of the cave, it rolled out from the inside, fell outside the canyon, and was also exposed on the surface of Mars.
Exposed to the sun, it will die... It suddenly let out a heart-piercing scream.
However, in the thin atmosphere on the surface of Mars, the propagation length of sound is only 1.5% of that on Earth.
The thin atmosphere on the surface of Mars has almost no oxygen. This species can adapt and survive, and it has lasted for hundreds of millions of years in this world known as the forbidden zone of life.
This species has lived deep underground for hundreds of millions of years, and there is one thing that is extremely deadly to it-cosmic rays.
The Pezos area is about to enter the night, but at dusk, the sun still shines on this land, and the ultraviolet rays and various cosmic rays from outer space can still make it die without a burial, and its survival instinct makes it struggle crazily.
Quickly wanting to escape from this place is the opposite of dying before, but it doesn't know that there is nowhere to escape from the empty surface.
Its epidermis began to burn, fester and suppurate at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the muscle tissue began to ooze into pus, leaving it on the path it crawled on.
When the pus touched the soil layer on the ground, white smoke suddenly came out, and the tiny amount of water contained in the soil began to be severely dehydrated, and the thin air was filled with a strong smell of acid corrosion...
Finally, it was exhausted, and it escaped from the competition of similar rivals, but it also failed to escape the final claim of death, rolling down from the cave on the cliff to the surface of Mars.
It tried its best to climb a length of 80 meters, and finally stopped, the pus soaked into the surface soil, and finally only a pile of complete skeletons remained on the ground.
White smoke spread around it and dissipated quickly. It went deep into the bottom of the extinct volcano along the cave mouth of the cliff. To enter the cave from the exit, one had to climb a steep slope first.
The creature lost its life because of this steep slope, and then it went all the way deep into the ground, and as it continued to go deeper, a network of criss-crossing caves began to appear.
As it continues to deepen, every inch of depth is closer to the core of Mars, and a new cradle of life appears in the ground. The core of Mars is about 1700 degrees Celsius.
And here has always maintained a stable temperature. In the ancient times of Mars, when volcanic activities were the most intense and frequent, here was magma, but now it is made of water.
Keeping the right distance from the core of Mars, which has a high temperature of 1700 degrees Celsius, is just like the right distance between the earth and the sun in the solar system, so that the water on the earth can be liquefied.
There is a similar "habitable zone" in the subsurface of Mars, where water is liquid.
In addition to this golden geographical location, the soil on the surface of Mars also contains water components. If humans know all this, it may be able to explain the mystery of the source of water contained in the soil layer.
The golden geographical location allows water to liquefy here, and the underground space or intertwined corridors originally formed by volcanic magma also make it possible for water to converge.
This is the last habitat of life. Deep underground in the Pezos area, there is a huge reservoir here, but it is definitely not the only one on this planet. The area of this reservoir is no less than Dongting Lake.
A swarm of reptiles more than three times the size of an adult Komodo dragon on Earth has converged on a shore.
They are reptiles, and a single individual has more than 3500 pieces of muscle tissue, while humans only have more than 600 pieces.
This type of creature has no moving limbs, but crawls like a snake. There is a pair of forelimbs that are basically not used for movement and more for fighting, consisting of three ligamentous joints.
It can be straightened but is usually half-contracted into an "s" shape, like the forelegs of a praying mantis on Earth.