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Chapter 361 A Miracle Created by Humankind
"Zhengtu has sent a report that all engines have been successfully ignited and the target asteroid is moving according to the planned orbit."

In the hall of the ground command and control center, He Luping and Professor Wood's originally tense emotions finally relaxed after hearing the real-time broadcast, and even their brows relaxed a lot.

"It's good if it succeeds!"

He Luping couldn't help but sigh.

Although the nuclear fusion engine installed on the target asteroid is considered a relatively mature technology.

There's no need to worry too much.

However, in order to ensure that the selected target asteroids can successfully break away from their original orbits and hit the surface of Mars at a sufficient speed, the number and power of the asteroids must not be too few or too small.

As a result, coupled with the complex environment of the target asteroid, simultaneous ignition is indeed prone to sudden failures.

If even one of the engines fails to ignite, it could cause the asteroid's orbit to deviate.

This indirectly threatens the safety of the earth.

Even if the Kunlun spacecraft is in low-Earth orbit, even if an asteroid hits, it can be destroyed in time with the main weapon, but this will cause a delay in the Mars environmental transformation project. At least finding another suitable asteroid will take a lot of time and energy.

So we must ensure that all ignitions are successful.

Make it fly and move in a predetermined orbit until it completely hits the surface of Mars.

Also, although the current mission to control an asteroid from impacting Mars was broadcast live globally, Xu Yuan did not participate in the execution of this mission because he is still conducting research on a new type of interstellar spacecraft.

The heavy responsibility has been placed in the hands of these two people, so they must make it a complete success no matter what.

"The target has successfully entered the planned orbit. Our mission is almost complete. All we need to do now is control the asteroid's trajectory."

Professor Wood did not remain silent at this time, and immediately took over He Luping's words and responded.

He Luping agreed with this statement, "The asteroid's flight path cannot have any deviation."

The asteroid they selected is in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and is relatively not too far from Mars.

But in the unfamiliar space environment, various energies may have an impact on asteroids.

This requires controlling and adjusting the nuclear fusion engine during the impact process to maintain the asteroid's trajectory and ultimately impact the surface of Mars in a suitable area.

This successfully completed the mission.

The implementation of the Mars environment transformation plan has officially begun.

that's it.

In the following time, with everyone on high alert, the target asteroid's flight speed gradually increased.

It seemed to be carrying an overwhelming and terrifying energy.

Even the images captured by the tracking and monitoring interstellar spacecraft Zhengtu made the audience watching the live broadcast feel suffocated, as if they had experienced the horrific scene of a mass extinction of life caused by an asteroid impact on Earth.

As a result, the comments in the live broadcast room, which were refreshing rapidly, were suddenly frozen for a few seconds.

Then there was another surge.

"too horrible."

"The images captured by the Zhengtu alone are full of pressure. I can't imagine what it would feel like to see it head-on."

"I'm a sports student, so I should be able to handle it."

"I'm afraid that the creatures on Earth during the Cretaceous period must have faced this kind of disaster that they could not resist at all. This feeling of suffocation and powerlessness is really too strong."

"Humans in the past had no way to prevent such disasters, but now we can easily create such disasters."

"But I have to say it, I really want to see whether our Kunlun aerospace carrier can handle this crisis well."

“It’s really shocking!”

"I hope that the impact of this asteroid will really promote the transformation of the Martian environment."

……

at the same time.

Just as the audience in the live broadcast room were immersed in this shocking scene, feeling infinite emotion in their hearts.

The rapidly moving asteroid finally approached Mars.

The distance between the two sides is not too far to begin with, and with the propulsion of so many nuclear fusion engines, it will not take too long for the asteroid to come into close contact with the surface of Mars.

As time passed, the target asteroid finally entered the thin atmosphere of Mars.

Finally, carrying terrifying energy, it crashed directly into the surface of Mars.

This caused a huge earthquake on Mars.

It is no exaggeration to say that such a commotion was like the collapse of heaven and earth.

It is just a pity that because the noise caused by the asteroid impact was so loud, coupled with the enormous energy released, neither the monitoring equipment on Mars nor the Journey spacecraft parked a safe distance above Mars were able to observe the surface of Mars after the impact in a short period of time.

We will have to wait until the surface of Mars calms down again before we can understand the latest situation.

But no matter what, the mission of controlling the asteroid and impacting the surface of Mars has been a complete success.

When the impact occurred, there was warm and exciting applause and cheers in the hall of the ground control command center.

"We succeeded."

"The impact on Mars was successfully completed. In addition, before our monitoring equipment lost the signal, the synchronized data showed that there were drastic changes on the surface of Mars."

"Great."

At this time, Professor Wood also had a bright smile on his face.

I thought I had finally successfully completed the task assigned by Chief Xu.

Didn't bring shame to the league.

As soon as the thought stopped here, the happy voice of He Luping next to me rang in my ears.

"We have successfully controlled the asteroid to impact Mars. We have finally taken a key step in the century-long project of transforming the Martian environment. The subsequent work can now be carried out in an orderly manner."

"Although our generation has no hope of seeing what Mars will look like after it establishes an ecosystem."

"But our descendants will be able to survive and develop on our new Martian home."

"Humanity will definitely succeed." Professor Wood nodded affirmatively after hearing He Luping's words.

He had great confidence in Xu Yuan, since it was Xu Yuan who completed the Mars environment transformation plan, and he also used a large model of Mars to let everyone see what Mars would look like after the transformation was completed.

Then the scenes in the simulation will definitely become reality.

As a lot of thoughts flashed through his mind quickly, he suddenly thought of something the next second.

He quickly spoke again to He Luping in front of him, "Should we tell Chief Xu the good news first?"

But upon hearing this, He Luping shook his head.

"Let's wait a while." "Chief Xu is still busy researching a new type of interstellar spacecraft. Let's not disturb him for now."

He Luping knew Xu Yuan's character very well. Since Xu Yuan decided to agree with the alliance's opinion and send the vanguard of human civilization to Proxima Centauri, it would be absolutely impossible for them to be trapped by an interstellar spaceship.

No matter what difficulties he faces, I believe he will find a feasible solution.

Now all they can do is to do their own tasks well, try not to bother or disturb Xu Yuan, and create a good environment for Xu Yuan to study new interstellar spacecraft.

After He Luping said this, he didn't show any intention of stopping.

Then he added:
"But we can make an announcement first to share this joy with everyone."

"This is indeed a joy for all mankind." Professor Wood responded with a smile.

Obviously, he strongly supports He Luping's opinion.

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In fact, there is no need for the Space Exploration Alliance to take action. The mainstream media of major member countries in the world have already begun extensive publicity and reporting after the asteroid successfully collided with Mars.

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And called this action a new miracle created in the history of human space exploration.

Most people had watched the live broadcast, and after seeing so much news, they became emotional and immediately joined in the discussion.

For ordinary people, things like asteroids hitting planets are simply beyond human control.

The fear caused by this kind of devastating disaster is simply engraved in our genes.

But now, humans have used their own abilities to create a large-scale scene of an asteroid hitting the planet.

In addition to greatly improving the cognition and self-confidence of individuals in human civilization, it also makes everyone more confident that transforming the environment of Mars is not an impossible task.

On the contrary, in order to have the hope of seeing the day when the Martian environment is truly successfully transformed, we will become more and more supportive of this reagent project.

You know, when the Mars environment transformation project was first approved and announced by the alliance, some people were opposed to this project.

It is believed that continuously investing huge amounts of resources into Mars over a period of hundreds of years without being able to see actual results in a short period of time may actually affect the development of human civilization.

Some people even feel that this mega engineering project, which spans almost a century, is filled with too many unknowns and variables, and the final outcome cannot be determined at all.

It is no exaggeration to say that if this plan had not been proposed by Xu Yuan and verified by large-scale model calculations.

If it were any other scientist, he would inevitably encounter strong resistance and opposition.

Maybe by that time, the alliance will also consider these impacts.

Therefore, they chose to stop transforming the Martian environment.

But now the impact of asteroids on Mars has made everyone clearly aware of the strong determination to transform the Martian environment.

The key is to show everyone hope.

Although this generation will not be able to see the final results, they can provide a new home for their descendants.

In addition, if we were to say who is most happy and excited about the success of the asteroid impact activity, Musk would definitely be one of them.

As someone who has long been determined to go to Mars and build a Martian community.

Now that I see this goal is getting closer and closer, my heart is naturally full of anticipation.

I thought that even if I couldn't see the complete establishment of the Martian ecosystem, the Mars City plan announced by the Alliance was not too far away from me.

Maybe in the future there will be a chance to live in a Martian city for a few days.

If that day really comes, even if I die on Mars, I will have no regrets when looking back on my life.

And in order to achieve this wish, he will increasingly hope that the project progress can be accelerated.

……

In the next few days, everyone will continue to pay attention to the situation on Mars.

As the energy of the riot on the surface of Mars gradually subsided, the original environmental monitoring equipment also resumed its signal.

Comparing the newly synchronized data with the previous ones, it can be clearly found that the air pressure on Mars has increased, and the progress is completely in line with the results of the large model verification.

There was no deviation.

What we need to do next is to gradually build artificial magnetic fields at the South Pole and North Pole of Mars.

And by building a nuclear fusion reactor to release energy, the temperature of the Martian surface can be increased.

Until it reaches a point where algae can be further transplanted to bring more oxygen to Mars.

Of course, this process is extremely long.

It is also worth mentioning that after the turbulent energy on the surface of Mars stopped subsiding, the Journey spacecraft landed on the surface of Mars again, and its landing area was exactly within the range of the asteroid impact.

As the images of the surface of Mars were captured through the camera of the Journey spacecraft, they were once again clearly presented to everyone's sight.

Looking down at the surface of Mars, you can clearly see that the asteroid has sunk deeply into it.

It seems to have become one with Mars.

There is no doubt that this will become a unique landmark on Mars in the future.

Even if humans live here, the asteroid will always be buried here.

To commemorate the great contributions made by the older generation of scientific researchers to the transformation of the Martian environment.

As for Xu Yuan at this time, he was staying at the superconducting quantum computer.

Through the terrifying computing power of quantum computers, we try to find directions and ideas for upgrading nuclear fusion engines.

Although he was unaware of what was happening in the outside world.

But I believe that with the abilities of Professor He Luping and Wood, we can definitely complete the mission of impacting the asteroid on Mars successfully.

"The current version of the engine used by the Zhengtu interstellar spacecraft can only reach a maximum flight speed of 1% of the speed of light. It is not as easy as I thought to increase it by 20 or even more than 20 times!"

Xu Yuan stood in front of the screen of the quantum computer, frowning as he looked at the information displayed on it.

There are so many thoughts in my mind.

During this period, almost all of his energy was focused on upgrading the nuclear fusion engine.

However, the several methods I came up with, and the conclusions I got after calculating them with quantum computers, were not able to significantly increase the speed of the spacecraft.

At most, it can only reach 5% of the speed of light.

Although this data can be regarded as a huge progress for the existing Zhengtu.

But it did not reach the expected value in his mind at all.

After all, the time it takes for a spacecraft to travel to Proxima Centauri at 5% of the speed of light is still too long, so a new solution must be found.

(End of this chapter)