My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

"So Mindy, what news have you brought me today?" Venkat greeted.

Mindy called up the online map of Mars and zoomed to the location of the residential area. "The terrain of the Ashidaria Plain will become flatter after Mark breaks away from the broken terrain around the residential area. Assuming that they travel on average every day, The mileage was seventy kilometers, and he should be able to say goodbye to the last ravine area on the third day on the road. Once they reached the Arabian Platform, the surface was very flat, with only craters and impact ejecta. The obstacles required their attention. As long as he was careful to avoid the craters, it shouldn't take him long to get through. As for the Schiaparelli Basin, the surface was covered with compacted dust and was basically flat. So the two faced The main difficulties were the climb up to the Arabian Platform and the descent into Schiaparelli.”

"Got it. What's the solution?"

“There are really only two ways for the tandem rovers to get to the Arabian Mesa,” Mindy explains. “There’s a huge cliff that separates the Arabian region from the surrounding Martian surface. My My opinion is that based on the load of the rover, this terrain is too steep. There are only two breakthroughs in this rugged terrain." She said, pointing to a network of dry ancient riverbeds almost directly to the southeast of the residential area. , "My choice is Maworth Valley. The river bed there is not very smooth, with a few broken terrains, and is almost certainly covered with large amounts of rocks that the ancient water migrated along. But despite its many shortcomings, the overall slope It should still be within the range of the rover, and the location near the Trufolo crater is exactly level with the Arabian Platform. After arriving at Trufolo, there are many large and major craters. There is plenty of clearance to facilitate their driving.”

"But the situation on the other road is not very optimistic. Mark has to drive due south from the residential area for about fifteen days. The cliffs in that direction are the gentlest, so the altitude can be slowly increased. Then Mark has to Turning east-southeast, he will encounter a large number of overlapping craters blocking his path. It will undoubtedly be very difficult for him to pass through that route. The only advantage is that compared to Maworth Valley, the altitude of this route is higher The ascent is a little slower. But the route is still more difficult and longer, taking several days longer on the way.”

"Okay." Venkat replied, "Then I'll ask Mark to pack up his cameras. We had the idea to go to Maworth Valley to collect data decades ago. But we always found that other people were paying more attention. In areas with high altitudes, the plan can only be shelved again and again." He reached out and tapped Mindy's keyboard, focusing the digital map on the Schiaparelli area, "By the way, how will he get down from the plateau again? ?”

“This step is even more difficult,” Mindy explained. “Most of the walls of the Schiaparelli Basin are straight up and down. Also, the surface surrounding Schiaparelli to the south and east is broken and rugged. —It would be almost impossible to navigate the tandem rovers through. That leaves only two possibilities.”

She pointed to two locations on the map, "To the east of the crater, there is a crater to the west that looks like a smaller crater sitting on the edge of the basin, breaking the terrain barrier, resulting in a crater on the northwest side. The high ground introduces a slope-like structure in the crater. This breakthrough is closest to Mark's driving route, but the slope itself is not easy to walk, and there are questions about whether the terrain is flat. There is another one in the southwest corner not far from Ares 4 MAV. at the entrance, where Meridiani Planum is almost at the same level as the basin in Schiaparelli Crater, and there are passages between the mountains on the edge of the basin. A rover should still be able to pass through, but those passages are indeed It’s not spacious. It’s far away from his direct path, and we may encounter obstacles that we haven’t discovered when making a big circle. If we can’t get around, we will lose several days.”

"Can we get clearer images of these locations?"

"It's unlikely. But I can give it a try."

"Then let's give it a try. As for now, let's assume that we need to take the northwest entrance. First make a detailed itinerary plan for Mark, and then send it to us through Pathfinder. If we encounter problems later, we can Find out if there are any other alternative routes."

"Yes," Mindy replied.

"I guess Mark is too busy recently and has no time to think about which route he wants to take." Venkat continued to talk, almost as if talking to himself, "The data files we carried for the Ares 3 mission did not include Detailed map of the Arabian Platform. The only reference materials he had at hand were an old complete map of the planet and a detailed map of Ashidaria and the Cristian Planitia. After getting the itinerary, he would focus on more important matters. on matters."

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 406

ARES 3 solar day 399

"Listen to me," Dragonfly waved her front hooves in a cosmic manner, calling for everyone to calm down. "I just meant that Granny Weatherwax could be a perfect Slytherin. I didn't say that. But she is evil."

"Grandma is from Gryffindor!" Spitfire spoke righteously, banging the workbench as he spoke.

"I thought grandma was a Hufflepuff." Cherry Berry muttered.

Everyone turned their heads. Mark asked, "Hufflepuff?"

"Yeah. Think tough love."

"But wouldn't Nanny Ogg be better suited to go to Hufflepuff?"

"Think about it carefully," Berry continued to push forward her idea, "grandma and wet nurse are both close friends, right? Can't they live in the same house?"

"Or maybe grandma raised the nanny as a friend because she needs support and strength," Tingting was also struggling, "because she is from the Snake House."

"That's enough, shouldn't we at least agree that Magrat Garrick is a Ravenclaw?" Starlight Glimmer interrupted.

Fireball said disdainfully, "Ha, that goes without saying."

"It's so obvious," Spitfire agreed.

"Now that I think about it," Cherry Berry continued, "Which house is Ridcarley from? He doesn't seem to be afraid of anything, so I guess it should be Gryffindor."

"He looks so stupid that he doesn't know how to be afraid," Dragonfly interjected, "Then he must be Gryffindor."

"Gryffindor is not the House of Lawful Stupidity!" Spitfire shouted after hearing this, "Reedcarley has his special cleverness."

"By the way, you guys are having an interesting chat," Mark tried to call his teammates through the radio, "But don't forget, we still have to find one of the three trolls guarding the back door of the Opera House. Time to deal with it.”

No matter it was other players or City Lord Xingguang, they didn't listen at all. "I think Hogwarts needs to open a fifth house for Rincewind," the unicorn continued to talk to himself. "The house emblem can be a cheetah. Or something else that can run very fast."

"Ringsiwind may have gone to Durmstrang," Fireball proposed his theory. "It's a good place for wizards to learn how to survive in very bad things."

The debate continues, but the game remains stagnant.