Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 400 Mars Recovery
Before the aftermath of the first collision subsided, the mood of Zhong Cheng and the others had slowly calmed down.

Ten minutes later, the asteroid Phobos 10 slammed into the mountainside of Mount Olympus, 002 kilometers west of the first impact point.

Almost at the same angle, same mass, and same speed as Phobos 001, Phobos 002 smashed the highest mountain in the solar system, leaving only 27 kilometers at a height of 20 kilometers.

However, the huge lava impact that erupted from the mountain immediately destroyed nearly half of the 20-kilometer half of the mountain.

The landslides and ground fissures caused by this collision were more heroic than before. Countless huge rocks were thrown several kilometers into the air, and after falling back to the ground, a second round of earthquakes was induced.

And 10 minutes later, the asteroid Phobos 003 hit the very center of the Elysian Plain, 1000 kilometers west of the second impact point.

Different from the previous two impacts, Phobos 003 smashed the earth apart on a flat plain, and everyone could clearly see the underground seawater gushing out from the cracks in the earth and a large amount of water vapor.

There is indeed an underground ocean deep in the stratum of Mars, but without such a violent impact, it is difficult to draw the seawater tens of kilometers below the stratum out of the ground.

Subsequent asteroids extend along the Martian equator to the north and south poles at a frequency of 10 minutes at the same time, like carpet bombing, violently impacting the surface of Mars at a distance of about 1000 kilometers.

The intensity of each impact is comparable to the asteroid impact that destroyed the earth's overlord dinosaurs 6500 million years ago, causing the surface of Mars to crack and magma to surge.

Wave after wave of seismic waves formed a resonance effect, and the violent oscillations spread to the deepest part of the Martian formation, reaching the core of Mars.

The convection process between the mantle and the core under the Martian strata that was stopped by the planetary impact for 40 billion years gradually began to resume, and the "dynamo system" of Mars began to restart.

Twelve hours later, after 12 major collisions between the sky and the earth, the dust and water vapor raised on Mars have covered the sky and completely covered the surface of Mars.

Continuous earthquakes with an intensity of more than 12 throughout the entire Mars destroyed all observation equipment installed by Red Star Company on the ground of Mars.

Everyone lost their direct observation of the surface of Mars, but they only knew that the surface of Mars is already an extremely crazy world.

But good news came from the reconnaissance satellite. The strength of the Martian magnetic field is increasing significantly, and the density of the Martian atmosphere is also increasing crazily.

The surface temperature of Mars has risen above zero, and the dry ice layers at the north and south poles of Mars have all been converted into carbon dioxide gas and entered the atmosphere, while the water ice below is also melting rapidly.

The collision of stars and sparks is still going on, and everyone has become numb to such collisions and began to take turns to rest.

8 month 5 day.

At 8:360 p.m. Mars time, after the asteroid Phobos 60 knocked down the last mountain on the Tarsis plateau, the [-]-hour impact finally came to an end.

The space 30 kilometers above the surface of Mars has been completely covered by dense clouds mixed with dust and water vapor, and the situation on the surface of Mars is completely invisible.

Zhong Cheng can only know that the strength of the Martian magnetic field has risen to 75% of that of the earth, which is better than expected, and the main goal of the recovery plan has been completed.

In the thick clouds of Mars, the wind and clouds are changing, lightning and thunder, a large amount of water vapor begins to condense, and continuous heavy rainstorms have occurred on Mars around the world.

Under sunlight, oxygen molecules in the atmosphere synthesized ozone, and the ozone layer of Mars was increasing rapidly.

The atmospheric concentration within 10 kilometers of the surface of Mars has reached the level of the earth, but it is still dominated by carbon dioxide, followed by nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen.

The oxygen content has risen from 0.15% before the impact to about 3%, the proportion of nitrogen has risen the fastest, reaching 25%, and the carbon dioxide content has dropped to about 3%.

The main source of nitrogen is volcanic eruptions caused by large-scale impacts. The gases produced by volcanic eruptions include carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, ammonia, nitrogen, and so on.

Compared with nitrogen, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and ammonia are all more soluble in water and relatively easier to react with other compounds.

The nature of nitrogen is relatively stable, and it is not easy to react with other compounds, so nitrogen is easy to stay, so the nitrogen in the atmosphere increases the fastest.

It's just that there is a lot of dust mixed in the current Martian atmosphere. Only after two or three months, these dusts settle naturally or are brought back to the ground by rain can the composition of the atmosphere be accurately measured.

However, such a result has made Zhong Cheng and others overjoyed.

Although the oxygen content is 3%, it will still cause people to suffocate in a short time, stop breathing and die, but it is already a good start.

According to the opinions of ecology experts, Zhong Cheng has ordered a large number of algae plants brought from the earth to be dropped over Mars.

Most algae plants live in water, with simple structure, no differentiation of roots, stems, leaves and other organs, containing pigments such as chlorophyll, capable of photosynthesis, turning carbon dioxide in the air into oxygen and carbon, and are autotrophic organisms.

Although algae plants are generally small in size, they are distributed in the vast waters of the earth, and the overall number is huge. 90% of the oxygen in the earth's atmosphere comes from algae plants.

Algal plants mainly live in water, and some live on wet rocks, tree trunks, soil surfaces or inside.

They can survive on new substrates formed after earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floods, and are one of the pioneer plants in new living areas.

Algae fix inorganic carbon through photosynthesis and convert it into carbohydrates, thus providing the basis for the development of an ecosystem in an area.

Among them, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria are important organisms that provide combined nitrogen on the earth, and are also important biological nitrogen fertilizer resources that can be used.

According to the results obtained from reconnaissance satellites, a large area of ​​ocean has appeared on the surface of Mars, mainly distributed in the plains of the northern hemisphere
The construction of the marine ecosystem in advance and the use of algae to transform the Martian environment are key projects in the recovery plan.

Only by relying on algae plants to adjust the composition of the Martian atmosphere to make it suitable for human survival, otherwise, the amount of engineering to produce oxygen by artificial means is simply beyond the reach of manpower.

After waiting for Mars to return to calm, planting a large number of wood grains on the land of Mars can also reduce carbon dioxide and increase oxygen content.

8 month 10 day.

After a few days of observation and analysis of the current situation of Mars, Mars has undergone tremendous changes. If such changes happen naturally, they will take hundreds of millions of years.

The most intuitive manifestation is that the rotation speed of Mars has accelerated after continuous violent impacts, from the original 24.6 hours to 23.9 hours, which is almost the same as the rotation of the earth.

The surface temperature of Mars has risen from an average of minus 56 degrees Celsius to an average of 300 degrees Celsius, but the temperature has begun to drop rapidly.

Through ultrasonic and infrasonic reconnaissance, the surface of Mars has undergone earth-shaking changes, a large number of oceans and lakes have appeared, and the height difference of the surface has been greatly reduced.

The original plains and lowland areas became oceans and lakes, the original plateaus and terraces became plains or hilly areas, and countless rivers were newly formed.

The surface of Mars is covered with a thick layer of volcanic ash, which is more than a few meters thick, laying the foundation for future Martian planting.

But most importantly, Mars' magnetic field finally stabilized, with a strength about 1.2 times that of Earth, effectively protecting Mars' brand new atmosphere.

Zhong Cheng announced the completion of the first phase of the recovery plan.

But now the hell-like environment on Mars is not suitable for any engineering operations. Except for [-] people left to observe Mars at the base of Yinghuo City, the others all returned to Earth for repairs.

More than two months later, when they come again, they will take the basalt spacecraft to start the construction of the Mars space ladder, and at the same time start the Mars global ecosystem construction project.

Mars has begun to recover, and it is just around the corner to become the home of mankind!
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