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Chapter 293 Ceres

However, although the Ming Empire has no good way to deal with those relatively large asteroids, after all, the Ming Empire now has these three spaceships that can travel long distances.

But after all, there are not only those relatively large asteroids in the asteroid belt, most of the asteroids are still relatively small, so they came to investigate the asteroid belt this time, and when they plan to go back, they will bring some relatively small asteroids back. Conduct research and analysis.

While the captain of the Explorer 2 was thinking about this, the data of the satellites launched by the Explorer 2 spacecraft came, and the data sent back by the aliens this time is actually their trip to detect asteroids One of the main goals of the belt, after all, no matter whether it is to transform Mars or Venus, it must consider using asteroids to impact, and the source of asteroids is only two places in the entire solar system.

One is the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, and the other is the Kuiper Belt. Only these two places in the solar system have asteroids or dwarf planets that transform Mars and Venus.

However, the Kuiper belt is too far away from the earth. With the current space technology of human beings, it will take several years or even ten years to come to the Kuiper belt and return. If such a long time is to use the small stars in the Kuiper belt If it is to transform Mars or Venus, the time required is too long.

After all, there are not many asteroids needed to transform Venus or Mars, and there are also requirements for their size, so the Gong Daming Empire only chose the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Of course, satellites from other planets in the solar system can also be used to target Mars or Mars. Venus undergoes a makeover.

But for the satellites of other planets in the solar system, human beings are not able to move them out of their original orbits and fly to Mars or Venus with the current technology of human beings.

Therefore, those relatively large asteroids in the asteroid belt have become the best choice for the Ming Empire at present, especially the three largest asteroids in the asteroid belt.

Therefore, Geng Mingzhong and his Explorer 2, the most important exploration targets in the asteroid belt this time are these three asteroids, especially for a preliminary and detailed investigation of the material composition and orbit of these three asteroids. After all, changing to Mars or Venus is not enough just to detect Mars and Venus themselves, but also to conduct a detailed investigation of the asteroids that hit them.

So after Explorer 2 learned the data sent back by the satellite, it immediately flew towards the position of the satellite. After all, there are such a large number of asteroids in the asteroid belt. It is still relatively difficult to find these three asteroids in this vast asteroid belt.

Although they are not very far away from the detection satellites, they are actually not close. After all, these detection satellites were launched before Explorer 2 entered the asteroid belt, and now the speed of Explorer 2 is already It's very slow. After all, flying in the asteroid belt is no better than other places, and they have to do various data detection in the asteroid belt, so their speed at this time is turtle speed.

Therefore, to get to the place where the detection satellite is located, it will take about two days for Explorer 2 to accelerate and decelerate to arrive.

"It's Ceres." In fact, he didn't need to say that everyone on Explorer 2 knew that the planet in front of him was the legendary Ceres.

After all, as the largest and only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, it is natural for everyone on Explorer 2 to be curious about him.

As for the understanding of Ceres, the largest dwarf planet in the entire asteroid belt, humans in this world obviously do not know as much as humans in Zhu Lei's previous life. Compared with Zhu Lei in his previous life, the Ming Empire is not comparable in the field of astronomy.

After all, the development of the Ming Empire in this area is still too short, and in his previous life, humans began to spaceflight in the middle of the last century and made strides in the field of astronomy.

For example, the Ceres star in the asteroid belt was discovered and announced by humans as early as 1801 in Zhu Lei's previous life, but it was not discovered in this world until around 2003. At this time, human spaceflight Technology, especially the aerospace technology of the Ming Empire at that time was already quite developed, and traveling to and from the moon was no longer a problem.

Moreover, Zhu Lei proposed and named Ceres in the asteroid belt. If Zhu Lei didn't say it, astronomers in the Ming Empire in this world would never have noticed that there are still planets in the asteroid belt in the solar system. When such a dwarf planet was discovered, the entire Ming Empire felt very incredible. Without Zhu Lei's intervention, it would take at least 10 to 20 years for the Ming Empire to discover this planet.

Moreover, the controversy over Ceres in this world is not as great as that of Zhu Lei in his previous life. After all, the technology in this world, especially aerospace technology, has been so advanced. When Zhu Lei discovered and named this dwarf planet, the Ming Empire immediately dispatched Special detection equipment went to this love planet to detect it. After the detection, the Ming Empire definitely determined the nature of this planet as a dwarf planet.

This was not the case in Zhu Lei's previous life. Ceres was considered the largest asteroid at the beginning, but later, as humans studied it more deeply, they knew more about it, so later astronomers upgraded it to Dwarf planet.

Explorer 2 soon reached the vicinity of Ceres, and then Explorer 2 began to fly around Ceres. After that, many probes flew out of Explorer 2, and began to investigate [-]% of the new overall data. Then after the investigation, these probes landed on the surface of Ceres, and began to collect samples and analyze various magnetic fields and material compositions of this dwarf planet.

And what he said on the 2nd took Ceres as the first target of their investigation this time. That was because when the Ming Empire sent unmanned probes to explore Ceres several times before, according to the data analysis, there should be a lot of ancient city appreciation. Water resources, regardless of the transformation of Mars or Venus, require a lot of water resources, so the water content on Ceres has a very important impact on humans' transformation of Mars or Venus.

As the probes on Ceres landed together and began to send back data one after another, the staff on Explorer 2 also began to get busy. After all, collecting data on an asteroid is also a very large workload. Such data with Venus is nothing, but it will not be easy, after all, Mars and Venus are so close to the earth.

Humans have started to collect data on Venus and Mars as early as ten years ago, and although Ceres said that the Ming Empire had sent probes to collect data, none of these probes landed on the surface of Ceres. Not to mention collecting data on the surface of Ceres.

(End of this chapter)