Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 388 A Plan to Restoring the Martian Magnetic Field

After Zhong Cheng returned to Earth, he plunged into the underground research and development center of the Kunlun Research Institute.

He convened all experts related to astrophysics, astronomy, and climatology from the Kunlun Research Institute to deduce his plan for restoring the Martian magnetic field on the Fuxi No. [-] super optical computer.

It took a week to build the Mars model in the Taixu Experimental System. In fact, the Mars modeling work started three years ago.

It's just that this trip to Mars and the continued exploration of Mars left behind personnel have obtained more comprehensive and detailed information, and the simulation degree of the Mars model has been greatly improved.

Although there are only about 70% of the simulation at present, it is enough for deduction.

If his plan is feasible, it will be no problem to increase the simulation degree of the Mars model to 90% before implementation.

Because not only is Mars smaller than Earth, but it's just a desolate planet with far fewer parameters to change.

Zhong Cheng conducted simulations in the Taixu Experimental System for two consecutive weeks, conducted tens of thousands of virtual experiments, and finally came to the conclusion that his whimsical plan was feasible.

12 month 1 day.

Zhong Cheng rushed back to the Kunlun Building in Kunlun City, held a meeting of the Nantianmen Phase II project team, and invited Wu Tie, director of the space agency, and his experts and scholars to attend the meeting.

There is only one topic for this meeting, which is to discuss the plan proposed by Zhong Cheng to restore the Martian magnetic field.

Zhong Cheng presided over the meeting. He briefly introduced the disappearance of the Martian magnetic field and the necessity of restoring the Martian magnetic field.

Under everyone's expectant eyes, Zhong Cheng revealed his plan: use the impact method to restore the Martian magnetic field.

However, this is not a single impact, but a series of 360 impacts, each of which is not smaller than the high-speed impact of a celestial body the size of the Icarus asteroid on Mars.

If such an impact happened on the earth, one time would be enough to make the earth beyond recognition.

Because many experts calculated last year that if Icarus hit the ground, the explosion caused by the impact alone would release the equivalent of 1 Tsar hydrogen bombs to explode at the same time.

(PS: The Tsar hydrogen bomb is the most powerful nuclear weapon detonated by humans so far, and its explosive power has reached the equivalent of 5000 million tons of TNT.)
But this is not the place where this plan surprised everyone.

Zhong Cheng went on to say that in order to restore the up-and-down convection of the molten iron in the core of Mars and form an electromagnetic effect, 360 huge impacts must occur successively at different locations on Mars at different angles within 60 hours, that is, one impact every 10 minutes.

He performed a simulation operation on the optical brain, and everyone watched the process through holographic projection.

The result given by the Taixu experimental system is that within one hour after the impact, the Martian magnetic field strength will increase from the current 1 Gauss to 0.00003 Gauss.

After one and a half months, the Martian magnetic field will increase to 1 Gauss, and after half a year, it will reach 0.1 Gauss, and then tend to stabilize.

(PS: The strength of the geomagnetic field is about 0.5-0.6 Gauss.)
There was warm applause in the meeting room, and all participants knew that the recovery of the Martian magnetic field means that Mars may become a second earth.

That would be the greatest achievement in human history, transforming a planet into a habitable home for humans.

When everyone was excited, the scientific research and engineering personnel among the participants were the first to calm down, and they all thought of a key question.

Yang Xi raised his hand to speak, and raised a common question among scientific research and engineering personnel. To capture 360 ​​asteroids larger than Icarus and bring them to Mars, the amount of work is too terrifying. Is this a task that can be completed in one or two years?
This kind of impact project must be carried out before the great development of Mars, otherwise all the buildings and personnel on the ground of Mars cannot be guaranteed to be safe, but can Red Star Company wait a few years?

Yang Xi's question made the meeting room quiet. This is indeed a big problem. There is no asteroid used as a cannonball, and this impact project can only be a theory on paper.

But everyone knows that Zhong Cheng is not a talker. Since he came up with this plan, he must have a solution.

Zhong Cheng smiled and pointed at a huge celestial body above Mars in the holographic projection, and said, "We don't need to look for asteroids, Mars is already prepared for us!"

"hiss!"

All the participants gasped. What Zhong Cheng was referring to was Phobos, a behemoth 27 kilometers long, 22 kilometers wide, 18 kilometers high, and with a mass of 1 trillion tons.

Zhong Cheng continued: "Phobos is an ice star, 82% of which is water, break it into 360 asteroids, use its own speed, use planetary engines to adjust the orbits of 360 asteroids, and make them hit Mars, the amount of work is not too big."

He then demonstrated on the optical brain that Phobos itself is running at high speed over the Martian equator, and 360 impact points are distributed within 3000 kilometers on both sides of the equator. Although the impact angles are not exactly the same, the directions are the same. .

It can be seen in the demonstration that after an asteroid adjusts its orbit, it will orbit Mars and gradually lower its altitude, and after a month, it will accurately hit the designated place.

Zhong Cheng said that the disintegration of Phobos and the adjustment of the orbits of the disintegrated asteroids can be carried out at the same time. As long as the time is calculated, 360 asteroids can be guaranteed to complete the impact task within 60 hours.

This time is about eight months. If it starts in January next year, the impact project can be started in August.

It will take another three months for Mars to return to calm. In November, the Xuanwu spacecraft has arrived on Mars, and the construction of the Mars ladder can begin.

Applause broke out in the meeting room again, and Zhong Cheng's explanation proved to everyone that although this collision plan was a bit unimaginable, it was indeed feasible.

After everyone quieted down, Zhong Cheng explained that there was actually another important reason why he wanted to use Phobos.

Phobos contains a lot of water, about 8200 billion tons by mass, which is equivalent to the water storage capacity of 8 Qinghai lakes. If it is decomposed and hits Mars, in the high temperature generated by the impact, in addition to water vapor, it will also produce a large amount of water. oxygen and hydrogen.

In fact, the consequences of this impact are very complicated. Continuous and violent impacts will not only restore the magnetic field of Mars, but the high heat and dust generated will also form a short-term greenhouse effect.

Raising the temperature on the surface of Mars from tens of degrees below zero to more than 100 degrees will cause the permafrost on the surface of Mars and the carbon dioxide dry ice and water ice on the north and south poles to melt.

Not only will oceans be formed in the lowland plains of the northern hemisphere, but the concentration of Mars' atmosphere will also increase dozens of times.

But with such a complicated calculation, the Taixu Experimental System can't get a result.

It can only be said that the current situation of Mars is already so "bad", and any change is very likely to be a positive change.

Of course, Zhong Cheng dared to "act recklessly" in this way because Mars itself is a planet without any life, and there are no human immigration cities now.

Otherwise, this kind of earth-shattering world collision, and it is 360 times, all life on Mars will die!

Wu Tie agreed to this plan on behalf of the Asian Federation, and joked that he hoped that Red Star Company would not blow up Mars.

Zhong Cheng invited Wu Tie and experts from the space agency mainly to obtain their consent.

Although the Federation handed over the development rights of Mars to Red Star Company, but Red Star Company wants to make such a big noise on Mars, it can be said that it has completely changed Mars, and it is inappropriate not to say hello to Wu Tie.

(End of this chapter)