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Chapter 189 The Battlefield on the Moon
There is sufficient light, there is a great possibility of water ice, and a permanent relay station can be built. This has already added a lot of points to the vicinity of the Shalkton Crater, but this is mainly for long-term residence and scientific detection. question.

If a certain place only has the value of scientific exploration, then people's enthusiasm for it will be greatly reduced, but if there are rich minerals there, it will be different.

Are there mineral riches near Shalkton Crater?

Have!
But not near it, but it is located on a huge metal mine.

The name of this huge metal mine is called the Antarctic-Aitken Basin.

The Aitken Basin at the south pole of the moon has a diameter of about 2500 kilometers and a depth of about 13 kilometers. It is one of the largest known impact craters in the entire solar system, and is also recognized as the largest, oldest, and deepest basin on the moon.

Internationally, an impact crater with a diameter of more than 300 kilometers is usually called an impact basin. This thing of 2500 kilometers obviously meets the definition.

And the reason why it is called the Antarctic-Aitken Basin does not mean that this basin is located in the Antarctic.

In fact, the main body of the basin is located on the back side of the moon, with the southern edge at the lunar south pole and the northern edge extending to the Aitken crater near the equator, so its name is derived from the two places at both ends of the basin edge - the lunar south pole + Aitken Teken crater named jointly.

If you only look at the flat map of the back of the moon, it feels like it occupies a quarter of the size of the back of the moon!

Let's put it this way, Chang'e-[-] landed in the Von Karman crater on the back of the moon, and this Von Karman crater is located inside the South Pole-Aitken basin.

Yutu No. [-] has been strolling here.

The area near the Shackleton crater where the outpost test module landed this time is also in this huge basin, and the Shackleton crater is one of the few places in this huge basin that is located on the front of the moon, so the astronauts working in the outpost The crew can still look up and see the earth.

After detection, there is a huge metal deposit under the basin, which may be the metal core of the meteorite that formed the basin in ancient times. The volume of this huge metal material is about five times that of the island of Hawaii!
And people know that the moon is rich in mineral and energy resources. The development and utilization of lunar resources is one of the driving forces for human exploration of the moon, especially the nuclear fusion material helium-3 that has been talked about for many years.

Just because the earth blocks the solar wind that hits the front of the moon, the content and concentration of helium-3 on the front of the moon is less than that on the back of the moon without shelter.

Coupled with the long polar day in the polar regions, sufficient sunlight will enrich a large amount of helium-3 around the Shackleton crater.

With this huge mine, the area around Shackleton Crater deserves to be the best place to build a lunar base.

In addition to the research value, the value as a space construction center and a space transfer station has also emerged.

By the way, when it comes to research value, in addition to the low temperature environment at the bottom of the Shackleton crater, which is ideal for infrared observations and can be used to build large infrared telescopes, this large basin on the back of the moon can also carry out low-frequency radio astronomy observations .

In fact, astronomers have always dreamed of conducting low-frequency radio astronomy observations to explore the mysteries of the universe more deeply.

However, due to the shielding effect of the Earth's magnetic field and the atmosphere, low-frequency radio astronomy observations cannot be carried out on the ground.

Low-frequency radio astronomy observations on the front of the moon are also interfered by the Earth's magnetic environment, and the observation results are not good.

But the back of the moon is a rare and quiet place, which shields the radio signal interference from the earth. It is an excellent area for carrying out low-frequency radio astronomy observations. It can fill the gap in the field of radio astronomy in the low-frequency observation section, and provide research on the sun, planets and Objects outside the solar system provide the possibility, and will also provide important data for the study of the origin of stars and the evolution of nebulae.

At the beginning, the Chang'e-[-] lander made a soft landing on the back of the moon, and then carried out moon-based low-frequency radio astronomy observation research with its own "mini equipment", and obtained a number of original and world-leading scientific results.

If a large antenna is used, the observation results must be quite impressive.

And this resource not only has its own huge mining value, but since there are asteroids with mining value everywhere in space, building a mining factory on the moon will provide experience for mining other space resources in the future.

Adding up various direct, indirect and regional advantages, there is basically no place on the moon that is more suitable for establishing a lunar base than near the Shackleton crater, so this place has long been targeted by capable countries on Earth, and some have even A corresponding plan was made.

Like the Freedom Federation.

The focus of its return to the moon plan is to land on the South Pole, and find a suitable place to build a moon base through several manned and unmanned landings. One of the most important candidate areas is near the Shackleton crater.

If according to the previous plan, the time of Fanxing's first manned landing on the moon was the time when the Freedom Federation officially started building the moon base, then the good place would definitely be occupied by the Freedom Federation.

But now, the plan is all messed up.

The first flight of the SLS rocket of the Freedom Federation was delayed for a long time, but the first flight of the Starry Long March 10 rocket was greatly advanced. There should have been a difference of less than [-] years in the first flight time, but they got together, only a few months behind.

Moreover, the first flight plan of the SLS rocket is very conservative, allowing the Orion spacecraft to return after a few laps in lunar orbit, but the first flight of the Long March [-] rocket is much more daring, not only allowing the new manned spacecraft to circle in lunar orbit , and even carried an outpost!

What's even more outrageous is that this outpost landed successfully, occupying the most important point of the Shackleton Crater at once!
When the Freedom Federation got the news, it was immediately shocked, because Fanxing didn't say the exact landing site at the beginning, but only said that it would choose one of several candidate landing sites in the Antarctic region.

After the outpost test module and the new manned spacecraft were separated, they did not land immediately. Instead, they circled the lunar orbit several times in order to choose a suitable landing place.

Did not expect to hit the bullseye!
So the first thought of the Liberty Federal Space Agency after knowing it was...

"How to do?"

Although the Freedom Federation said it would land there, it was also one of the candidate lands, and it had no right to blame Fanxing.

Moreover, the places on the moon are not something that can be obtained just by talking about it. After all, there is a treaty, and the moon is not allowed to grab territory, and it is not allowed to claim sovereignty over a certain area.

But if you say you are doing scientific research, that is fine.

This situation is very beneficial to those countries that are strong, especially those that can launch things on the moon. For example, if you say that you are doing scientific research in a certain place and you have launched equipment, you can prohibit other countries from going to a certain place Land, as doing so may ruin the test.

(End of this chapter)