As the seven huge cargo compartments rushed into the surface of the Martian atmosphere, the huge atmospheric friction instantly made the surface of the cargo compartment burn red.

In the ground command center, everyone watched this scene nervously.

Landing on the surface of Mars, it is very important to get through this part safely.

"Reach the height of the parachute from the surface and open the parachute!"

"The parachute was successfully opened, and the bag shock absorption system was opened!"

As the parachutes opened, the seven cargo compartments instantly seemed to bloom with seven huge flowers.

Immediately afterwards, the impact of the falling of the cargo compartment was immediately relieved, and countless inflatable airbags covered the surface of the cargo compartment, forming a huge inflatable sphere.

"Landed!!"

In the cockpit, Du Xiaosheng and the other four nervously watched the huge carrier compartment fall to the ground, and then one by one the spheres fell on the surface of Mars, bouncing up, jumping and rolling!

On the high-altitude satellite, everyone saw the monitoring screen and immediately hugged each other excitedly!

More than 200 days of space travel finally paid off at this moment!

It has arrived near Mars, and the signal wants to contact the Earth's ground command center, and the waiting delay required for a single transmission will take more than four minutes, and this back and forth is an eight-minute waiting time.

"Mars One, is the landing of the cargo compartment normal?"

"Everything is normal, there is no damage to the appearance, but the No. 7 fuel tank has rolled violently, and it is three miles away from the intended position."

"Now, Du Xiaosheng and Baoer are carrying out remote sensing control of the robot's out-of-cabin operation."

While Christina was speaking, Du Xiaosheng and Paul had already used the remote control system to control the space robot through satellite signals to complete the basic formation of the capsule and the base.

This is a mountain range on the surface of Mars, with a small Martian lake on the periphery of the mountain.

It was summer, and the water from the Martian Lake was wetting the surrounding ground, and Du Xiaosheng and Paul were tasked with using robots to check the integrity of the contents of the capsule.

Once it is determined that all the materials are in good condition, the landing operation on Mars can be carried out.

And complete the three-month base construction mission.

As the capsule opens with the bulging sphere's surface, a wrapped robot unfolds its folded probe and robotic arm, lowers its tracks to detect its own usage status.

"The crew is in good order, and now they are carrying out out-of-cabin activities and conducting the first landing environment review."

"The air composition is being examined...... Carbon dioxide (95.3%), nitrogen (2.7%), argon (1.6%) and trace amounts of oxygen (0.15%) and water vapor (0.03%)...... Air temperature 18 degrees Celsius...... Atmospheric pressure 7 mbar......"

Through the camera probe on the surface of the robot, Du Xiaosheng and others can clearly see the surface of Mars at this time.

It is the surface of the planet with an orange appearance, it is not full of craters like Mercury, in the distance is the continuous high mountains, open plains, and the far away is a steep canyon in the distance of the underground Mars Lake, and further north, there is a low plain filled with lava, in which the volcanic terrain, many canyons formed by the erosion of flowing water are scattered all over the place, and the wind-formed sand dunes are also widely spread throughout the planet, giving people a different beauty.

Although Du Xiaosheng has seen such a scene many times in the simulation warehouse, when he really controls the robot and uses his crawler to step on this unknown planet, Du Xiaosheng's mood is still extremely excited.

"The interior of the cargo hold is intact and there are no problems with building components. No damage to aerogel and other items, no damage to polycarbonate......"

The robot is still faithfully completing the work of exploration, and the detailed parameters make Du Xiaosheng briefly pull back to reality.

Most of the equipment showed an intact landing, and the inspection lasted three hours.

However, when Paul inspects the carrier module that is responsible for carrying a small nuclear power station (which has indeed been successfully developed), Paul's face suddenly becomes a little ugly.

Normally, a Mars base requires five small nuclear power stations of 10KW.

These small nuclear power plants are not only used to supply electricity, but also to produce oxygen for human survival through the electrolysis of water.

Once the generators are damaged, it will be difficult to carry out various post-landing operations, which will also mean the failure of the Mars landing plan.

Without waiting for Paul to speak, in the picture of the robot controlled by Du Xiaosheng, Du Xiaosheng took the lead and said: "I have a little problem. ”

"What's the situation?" Zhao Yunhan and Christina, who were sitting in the back row, stepped forward and looked at the main display.

Du Xiaosheng pointed to the large screen of Unicom's airtight display screen and said: "When this carrier module landed, a protective airbag exploded, and I suspect that the drilling robot was broken." ”

"Without the drilling robots, we wouldn't be able to collect water from the underground Martian Lake, so this mission would be a failure, right?"

For a moment, the air became a little dull.

Paul stopped what he was doing, he reached out and gently scratched the top of his slightly bald head, his eyes roamed back and forth on the three of them, looked at the three people who were in a bad atmosphere and said: "In fact, the bad news is not only this, on my side, there seems to be something wrong with the small nuclear power station, and after we land, the power supply of the base is likely to be insufficient." ”

"Not only that, Zhao Yunhan pointed to the satellite cloud image, which shows the surface of the farthest rolling transport module, and by zooming in on the screen, you can see that several spherical airbags have obviously burst, which means that the dye module we have dropped on the surface of Mars is likely to have a problem."

Taking off the inductive control gloves, Du Xiaosheng pressed the smart earhook and reported to the channel of the ground command center: "The command center, the nuclear reaction electric cabin, and the exploration and drilling robot have failed, the fuel tank airbag has burst, and it is suspected that the cabin is seriously damaged, and I request a reply." ”

Time passed quite long, and the eight-minute reply time made Du Xiaosheng and the others extremely tormented.

Ground command center.

When it was heard that there was a problem with the two important chambers, an emergency consultation meeting was immediately held on the ground.

"What to do? Now in this situation, it seems that there is a certain problem in the construction of the Martian base. ”

"If it's just a problem with nuclear power equipment and exploration robots, it's not that you can't continue to explore, it's a big deal to store the supplies, make a landing plan first, and then wait for the next time to land on Mars with new supplies."

"But in this situation, if the fuel tank is completely damaged and then the Mars landing is carried out, then the situation is dangerous, and the astronauts have no way to return, and the rescue operation is obviously unrealistic at such a long distance."

"Fly around the fire a few times and come back, it's too dangerous to land in this situation."

Modoev and Academician Han Bingyang glanced at each other, both of them were silent about the discussion of the researchers, and Academician Han Bingyang asked: "Mars One, the advice given by the ground is to only make an orbital observation, what do you think?" ”

Du Xiaosheng groaned, glanced at Paul, and asked Paul's opinion.

Paul groaned and said: "Captain, if there is no problem with the fuel tank, I am willing to accompany you to land on Mars for investigation, and even try to repair Mars exploration equipment and build a base." ”

"But now that there's a problem with the fuel tank, landing on Mars, it means it's hard to come back."

"Therefore, I think we should still follow the arrangement of the command center, even if it is to orbit Mars, we are also the first people to observe near Mars."

Hearing Paul's words, Du Xiaosheng pondered for a moment, and then said: "Command center, I apply for a Mars parachute!" Landing on Mars alone and checking the situation of various carrier capsules! ”

Without waiting for the ground command center to answer, Christina, the mission expert on the side, refused and said, "Are you crazy?" This will not work! The atmospheric pressure on the surface of Mars is less than one percent of the Earth's surface, and if you do this, you are completely going to die! ”