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The astronauts began to get busy around a few kilometers around the landing module.

Some people seem to be marking landmarks, as if they are planning a building.

Others are carrying various instruments and are doing detailed surveys of the surrounding geological conditions.

Another astronaut is driving a shovel-like thing, clearing the surrounding gravel.

The surface of the Starfire Ball is full of various piles of rocks. What he is doing now is cleaning and levelling.

It looks like they are preparing to build a house on top of the spark ball, each busy with different things.

Of course they couldn't build anything on the Starfire Ball this time, at least the materials around them were not enough, and even the smallest building could be built on the Starfire Ball.

But this time it doesn't work, but it doesn't mean it won't work in the future. Someone will come to build the Sparkball base next time.

So now the astronauts are making preliminary preparations for the establishment of the next Starfireball base.

This month, they have to do similar work to clear out the surrounding areas for several kilometers.

A few kilometers centered on the landing module is where the Starfireball base will be located in the future.

This time the landing capsule landed on the top of the Starfire Ball, but it was carefully selected, and it was not a random place to land.

The landing module chose to find a landing location, but after a long period of research, the best location was finally selected.

This neighborhood is very suitable for future construction bases, so it will be used as a landing place.

The astronauts are now in a very flat terrain, and there are not many undulations around, so they will not encounter any obstacles in their development.

And the geological structure here is also very good, can withstand the construction of various buildings.

The most important thing is that there is a high-quality shallow iron ore vein not far from here.

This iron ore is basically located on the surface. Mining is very simple and you can see the veins without digging deep.

Moreover, the iron content of iron ore is also very high, even exceeding the highest quality iron ore on earth.

This super high-quality iron ore is very simple to smelt and process, and it is easy to obtain finished steel.

You must know that steel is the most basic industrial raw material. As long as you have steel, many things can be processed on the spot on the spark ball, without having to be transported from the distant earth.

Ye Su finally chose this place as the address of the Spark Ball base because of this high-quality shallow iron ore vein.

This iron ore vein is simply too rare, mining and smelting are so easy.

If this reservoir vein is on the earth, I don't know how many companies will rob it.

It is a pity that there are not such good iron ore veins on the earth, and those companies can only look at it with jealousy.

This is the advantage of developing outer space. This is just the spark ball closest to the earth, and there are already mineral resources that will be good.

And there is more than this mineral vein on the Starfire Ball, there are many excellent minerals waiting to be developed there.

Iron ore is just a big demand for building bases, but its value is not very high.

At the very least, the iron ore mined by the Spark Ball cannot be transported back to the earth to sell for money. Transporting such worthless things like iron ore back so far is simply a brain-dead behavior.

The freight cost alone is countless times higher than the price of iron ore, and it is not worth shipping back to the earth.

But this is not to say that there is no point in developing the Spark Ball. Iron ore is not valuable but there are valuable things on the Spark Ball.

When the Starfire Ball was probed in detail last time, Ye Su found several platinum veins on the Starfire Ball.

The gold reserves of these platinum veins on the Starfire Ball far exceed those of the largest platinum mine on earth, and the mining difficulty is lower than that of the veins on earth.

If Ye Su establishes a base on the Starfire Ball, he can start mining the platinum on the Starfire Ball.

Platinum is a very precious metal. The reserves on the earth are very low, so the price has always been high.

The platinum reserves on the Starfire Ball have been detected dozens of times that of the Earth, so it is very promising to mine platinum on the Starfire Ball.

Although judging from the current cost of transportation from the Starfire Ball to the earth, shipping platinum back is still a bit of a loss.

But technology is constantly improving, and the cost of space transportation in the future will definitely continue to drop.

Ye Su’s new type of rocket has been under development all the time, and when this type of rocket is developed, the cost of space transportation will drop again.

It is estimated that when platinum can be mined on the Spark Ball, transportation costs will be reduced to a profitable level.

At that time Ye Su can rely on this to make money, and a steady stream of platinum will flood the market on the earth.

Maybe the price of platinum will drop due to the mining of the Spark Ball, but the significance of returning platinum from the Spark Ball is still great.

Platinum has very high stability and is very suitable for use as an industrial raw material.

Therefore, platinum, a precious metal, can not only be used as jewelry, it also has great practical value.

Ye Su knows that many space vehicles in the future will need to use a lot of platinum.

If you only rely on the earth to buy, even Ye Su's wealth will not be enough to make up the platinum demand.

The platinum on the Starfire Ball also solved this problem, which was also one of Ye Su's purposes for developing the Starfire Ball.

From here, we can see how barren the earth is. Compared with the vast universe, the resources on the earth are not worth mentioning.

Therefore, going to space is the only way for mankind. There are countless resources waiting for mankind in the solar system alone.

Astronauts are busy doing preparatory work on the starfire ball, and the technicians on this side of the earth are not idle.

The entire aerospace technology team is now in a nervous and busy state, except for the space mission center where someone needs to monitor the situation on the starfire ball.

The R&D team is also busy with their own work here, and they are doing the final technical R&D.

The establishment of the Starfireball base requires a lot of new technologies, and these technicians are now making preparations.