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Chapter 385 Landing on Mars
Watching other team members land safely one after another, Hu Bo was the last one to land on the ground of Mars.

Zhong Cheng counted the number of people, 64 people, not a lot.

He put down his backpack, took out a five-star red flag from it, and took out five fiberglass flagpoles, connected them into a five-meter-long flagpole, and hung the five-star red flag on the flagpole.

He looked around, and found that the Meridian Plateau was flat, except for some gullies that seemed to be rivers.

There are large areas of hematite in the Meridian Plateau, and these materials only exist around those hot springs and calm lakes on the earth.

Scientists believe that the Meridian Plateau in ancient times may be full of lakes, and even once had life.

But so far, there are no signs of life.

Several team members responsible for latitude and longitude calculations have already got results. Just 100 meters to the north of everyone is the origin of longitude and latitude of Mars. Both longitude and latitude are zero, which is exactly the flag-planting point agreed in the ignition plan.

Zhong Cheng walked over with the national flag, and Hu Bo used a gun drill to drill a one-meter-deep hole in the rock at the origin of longitude and latitude.

Zhong Cheng inserted the flagpole into the round hole, and Hu Bo injected a new type of hot melt glue into the hole to fix the flagpole.

At this time, a northerly wind was blowing on the Meridian Plateau. Although the wind was not strong, it still made the five-star red flag flutter in the wind.

The team members turned on the speakers they brought and played the "March of the Volunteers".

Everyone stood in awe, watching the five-star red flag, and sang the national anthem together.

Zhong Cheng was in a great mood. This five-star red flag was forged with the blood of the ancestors. Now it is inserted on this red land, and it looks even more vivid!

More than 5000 years ago, the ancestors of China ignited the fire of Chinese civilization on the Loess Plateau in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

Generations of Chinese people have overcome obstacles and endured hardships, allowing the fire of Chinese civilization to illuminate the east of the earth.

Today, their new generation of Chinese people has brought the fire of Chinese civilization to Mars, and Mars will surely become a brand new home for Chinese people in their hands.

The ensuing speech, which was broadcast live globally, was handed over to Hu Bo, who, on behalf of the space agency and the Asian Federation, delivered a speech on the first human landing on Mars.

Although humans have traveled as far as the asteroid belt and Jupiter, Mars is the most Earth-like planet in the solar system.

The latest research proves that life on Earth originated on Mars.

Landing on Mars, developing Mars and transforming Mars into a habitable planet for humans is far more significant than developing other planets.

Because Mars has every hope of becoming a second Earth!

At this time, billions of people on the earth are watching this historic live broadcast, and the number of viewers is comparable to that of the American Federation landing on Ganymede last year.

In the testimonials read by Hu Bo, he also emphasized that the ground fire route will be opened in the next year, and the one-way ticket for sightseeing on Mars will not exceed 1 yuan.

5 yuan for a trip to Mars is enough. This is a consumption that most people can afford, and it is extremely attractive to people.

Although it is far above Mars, Zhong Cheng can also imagine the shock that this news will bring to the people on earth.

The tourism development of Mars will be jointly operated by Red Star Company and AirAsia Service Company, which will be the first pot of gold for Red Star Company after entering space.

This is a huge consumer market with tens or even hundreds of trillions. As long as it persists until the next year, the financial pressure on Red Star's space development will be greatly reduced.

The live broadcast is still going on, and Zhong Cheng has already led the other team members to seize the time to start the project of leveling the airport runway.

If the project cannot be completed within the scheduled time, the Asterisker will not be able to land on Mars, and they will be in big trouble.

The atmosphere density of Mars is only about 1% of that of the Earth. It is very dry and the temperature is low. The average surface temperature is minus 56 degrees Celsius. Water and carbon dioxide are easy to freeze.

In the early days of Mars, which was very similar to Earth, almost all of the carbon dioxide on Mars was converted into carbon-containing rocks like Earth.

But without Earth's plate tectonics, Mars is unable to recycle carbon dioxide into its atmosphere to produce a meaningful greenhouse effect.

Therefore, even pulling it to the same distance from the sun as Earth, the temperature on the surface of Mars is still much colder than that on Earth.

火星的那层薄薄的大气主要是由遗留下的二氧化碳（95.3%）加上氮气（2.7%）、氩气（1.6%）和微量的氧气（0.15%）和水汽（0.03%）组成的。

The average atmospheric pressure on the surface of Mars is only about 7 millibars (less than 1% of that on Earth).

Therefore, like on the moon, human beings cannot be directly exposed to the atmosphere of Mars, and the eating, drinking and drinking of the 64 team members who landed on Mars are a big problem.

They carried four simple personal life support systems, allowing one person to take off the mecha inside, eat and drink conveniently, and take a short rest.

Everyone has to take turns to go in, and the life support system can only last for a day and a night.

Because the area they selected was the bottom of the lake in ancient times, it is very flat and the rocks are also very strong. It is not a large amount of work to level out a runway with a length of 50 kilometers and a width of [-] meters.

February 10 at 27pm.

After Zhong Cheng and others worked continuously for more than 20 hours, a simple aerospace plane landing runway was completed.

After Zhong Cheng contacted Li Qiwei on the Xingxing, after leaving 10 people in the Phobos base, the Xingxing left Phobos and went straight to Mars.

3:5.

The Star Reacher flew over the Meridian Plateau.

Under the guidance of the ground personnel, the Star Reacher landed on the airstrip at a speed twice the speed of sound, and the aircraft tires made a sharp friction sound against the ground.

Under the terrified gaze of everyone, the Star Reacher quickly decelerated and finally stopped at the end of the runway.

The asterisk soft landing was successful!
So far, the first mission of the ignition plan to land on Mars has been successfully completed.

The next step is the second task, to establish a Mars scientific research base and conduct field research on the geology, geography and climate of Mars.

It is much more convenient to establish a base on Mars than on Phobos. Mars has 40% of the gravity of the earth, and there will be no more equipment, materials, and personnel flying around in the sky.

This first Mars base is also a temporary base, using soil and building materials brought from the earth to build a small dome space that can accommodate more than 30 people and a dozen assembled houses.

In addition to the necessary life-support system equipment and living materials, Zhaixing only carried scientific research equipment and equipment, including five Mars engineering vehicles.

Because this place will be built into the largest city on Mars in the future-Meridian City, which is also the largest transfer center for personnel and materials on Mars, and the smallest super-large city with a population of tens of millions.

However, the construction project will start after the completion of the first Xuanwu spacecraft, and now it is only the preliminary scientific research mission.

(End of this chapter)