Chapter 134 Mox System
Everyone filed into the pressurized cabin, where pressurization and oxygen injection were performed.
After the pressurization is completed, you can take off your heavy space suit directly here and enter the base.
"Boss Fan, with the help of your company, our base has now expanded to an area of 500 square meters, and now every spacecraft prioritizes the materials it delivers, most of which are construction materials.
This is the plan for this phase.”
Neto paused for a moment, then recalled the tone of Mark and Fanren's conversation, and continued:
"The plan for this phase is to expand the base to 1000 square meters and increase the number of residents to 100. At that time, the expansion work will be suspended and the next phase of the plan will begin.
The next phase of the plan is to go there, and with the help of a series of equipment, we will begin a long journey to the north to find the Arctic ice sheet to determine whether there is water there. This will determine the next development strategy. "
After he finished speaking, everyone entered the base from the pressure chamber.
"There is indeed a huge glacier there. I have confirmed this before coming here, Ah Dai."
Fan Ren took over the conversation and shouted behind him.
Upon hearing this, Ah Dai stepped forward and took out a small sampling container that he had been holding in his hand.
"Do you have water source testing equipment here? If not, I'll take it back to Blue Star for testing."
Hearing the nonchalant tone of the Xinghai boss in front of him, Neto didn't know how to respond.
Mars, Arctic, glaciers, sampling.
These words sound simple, but are extremely difficult to achieve. Their Mars project has been going on for nearly two years and is still in the base development stage.
Even their activity range is as small as 50 square kilometers.
Once you are far away, you will most likely have to spend the night outside, and the temperature on Mars is extremely low at night. It is still summer now, but the temperature can reach around minus 70-80 degrees Celsius.
But once the long winter comes, the night temperature will reach a terrifying minus 130 degrees Celsius.
At that temperature, there was a possibility of accidental leaks in their space suits.
Even if there is a solar car as a vehicle, it is still a question whether the various components of the battery car can maintain normal operation under such temperature conditions.
It is precisely for this reason that, before the base support work reaches a certain level, these people dare not go too far away.
But now, what Fan Ren said sounded to him as if he was joking with him.
The current focus of their "Mars Project" is to determine whether there is solid water in the white area of the Arctic.
I don't know how much money and resources were spent on this.
However, now, looking at the sampling container placed in front of him by the bald young man, he couldn't help feeling a little confused.
He knew that the boss of Xinghai Technology in front of him would never joke with him about such a thing, otherwise there would be no point for him to travel all the way to Mars.
"Yes, yes, my friend, please follow me."
The female team member, Leah, who had been silent, seemed to have guessed the captain's inner thoughts. She quickly broke the brief silence and led Ah Dai to the other side of the base.
"Excuse me, Mr. Fan, please follow me. The life support system of our base is in front."
A barely perceptible trace of loneliness flashed across Neto's face, and he then led Fanren and Danwu behind him to a separate building.
For this Mars base, except for the first batch of building materials which were made of Spieth's self-developed aviation-grade aluminum alloy, the rest of the expanded areas were built with Xinghai's tri-titanium alloy.
This ensures that safety is fully met in the extreme climate conditions on Mars.
But the life support equipment used was a system jointly developed by Nasser and Spieth. Under Neto's guidance, Fanren carefully observed the life support system.
Unlike the vacuum environment of the lunar base and the space station, oxygen must be produced by electrolyzing water.
Since there is a lot of carbon dioxide on Mars, they have come up with a very novel device called 'moxie'.
The device cleverly utilizes carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere, filters out remaining impurities, and then electrolyzes it to produce oxygen and carbon monoxide.
Initially, a Mox could produce 12 grams of oxygen per hour, enough for an adult to breathe calmly for 30 minutes.
After a long period of testing and optimization, Spieth and his company transported a 100-kilogram Mox device to the Mars base via the Star Sea spacecraft, which initially solved the base's oxygen supply needs.
Fanren was particularly curious about this device.
Although oxygen can also be produced through the electrolysis of water, the process of electrolysis of water also produces hydrogen, which is a flammable and explosive gas that is very difficult to store.
It is okay to use this method to produce oxygen in small quantities, but once it involves cities with millions of people in the future, the side effects of this method of producing oxygen will be too great.
Now this Mox equipment is very good.
The subsystems of other life-support equipment were similar, and after they finished touring this cramped Martian base, Fan Ren gradually had a general idea of what was going on.
The location of the base was well chosen, but due to the congestion and chaos among the various systems caused by force majeure factors in the early stage, the conditions for large-scale expansion are no longer available here.
At present, it seems that if we want to build a large-scale Mars base, this place can only be used as a temporary command center, and it is likely to be demolished after it is built because of its backward facilities.
While Fan Ren was thinking, Ah Dai and Leah came back with excitement on their faces.
"Boss, the test results are out. It's very pure water without any impurities."
Fan Ren nodded. In an environment like Mars, no impurities could withstand the effects of such an extreme environment.
The solar wind sweeps through the sky all year round, cleaning away all impurities.
As for the long-standing speculation about whether there are microorganisms in the water, the answer is no.
Under certain conditions, microorganisms' requirements for the environment are more stringent than those required by humans.
Neto and others had a very limited reaction to this news. After all, such a white area that could be observed with the naked eye from space could not possibly be granite.
What they were more concerned about was the nano-coat that Fan Ren had mentioned before.
The scene of the three of them getting off the spaceship just now really shocked the team members.
Seeing this, Fan Ren also reacted and nodded to Shan Wu behind him.
Shan Wu walked forward and opened the box in his hand.
"This is the Nanocoat, Captain Neto, you can choose two players."
Before Fan Ren could finish his words, a tall man in the crowd snatched a cube from the box. This was a nano coat that had not yet been unlocked.
"Damn it, Rand, put it down now!"
Neto was really angry this time. He stared at Rand with gloomy eyes, and his tone was no longer as furious as before, but very cold.
Fan Ren looked at the man called Rand, and only then did he realize that this man must be the protagonist who had committed a great sin, as he and the female astronaut lost control of their lower body in space and created a "space baby".
No wonder there are so many unruly people.
(End of this chapter)
