After Becoming a Little Sister

They need a little evidence, a little evidence from optical observations, to prove one thing.

That is, Wusum really exists, and the traces of surface activity on Mars are left by the other party, not entirely geological changes.

After all, for humans, a huge creature that may be hundreds of kilometers, or even thousands of kilometers, is an operating system that they currently cannot accept.

It's too big, it's really too big, it's not as big as it is possible to bear it, I can't help it.

Even from the perspective that humans can understand, such a large creature should not exist at all, or should not be called a creature.

Human beings currently have not many probes that can reach Mars. The latest probe that has reached the ground is Tianwen-[-] of the Republic, and Tianwen-[-], which was quietly launched after the deep space exploration program.

Don't ask why a decimal point is added to the number. The space agency and the project team of the Deep Space Exploration Program have been annoyed several times over this matter.

Do you know that it is not easy to break into paragraphs when writing internal reports with automatic line breaks?

The project team of the Deep Space Exploration Program, who had been sad for a while after the loss of the Deep Space [-] probe, now entered into a period of excitement again.

"Where to look and where to look?"

"Arab Terra!" A little friend jumped up and said, "It's definitely Arabian Terra! I thought there was a problem before! Absolutely, definitely!"

"Where is the problem?"

"Supervolcanic Eruptions - Explosive Volcanoes!"

Data on Mars' volcanic history once kept scientists busy.

Because they want to study what impact supervolcanic eruptions may have on the climate of the Red Planet, and speculate whether humans can take advantage of these environments.

We must know that human beings really thought about going to the moon or Mars first!

The last one who was so entangled was the elementary school student who was entangled in whether to go to Qinghua University or Baida University when he was a child.

Well, in the end, I found out that both of them didn't make it. The real world belongs to...

"Why! Arabian Terra is the only place on Mars that has ever had these explosive volcanoes! I've struggled with this for ten years!"

The little friend slapped the table, bang bang bang, fiercely: "How many decades are there in life! Wusum - I and it are at stake!!"

Can you imagine that state of mind?

It's like doing a project experiment and catching a fish at random. After recording and studying for three semesters, I worked hard and carefully, and found that various data were wrong.

——Then I was shocked to realize that this fish was a mutant fish polluted by sewage pollution from a certain island!

You can't beat Wusum, otherwise, the little friend will have his heart to eat it directly now.

The premise is that Wusum really exists...

"Here, just here, let's locate the image." He pointed to the area where data analysis has been done: "These seven calderas are the first sign that this area may have had super-eruptive volcanoes before. Mentor thinks they are a series of impact basins formed by asteroids billions of years ago."

"and then?"

"Then? In '13, a mysterious, handsome, brilliant scientist published a study where they proposed that these depressions were actually craters."

Speaking of which, the little friend raised his chin proudly, expressing that the scientist is himself, so hurry up to praise him.

As a result, everyone ignored him and started reading the research report one after another.

Who are you?I have information, what are you doing?

"I've seen that study with images from MRO's Compact Mars Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrograph instrument."

Another little friend came over. He learned the same things as this guy, and he is also the pillar of the deep space exploration project team.

"They found the clay when they were searching for minerals on the surface and in canyon walls and craters hundreds of kilometers from the crater."

"clay?"

"Yes, clay. When a volcano erupts, the wind blows away the volcanic ash, which carries some volcanic minerals, such as montmorillonite, imogoite, and gibbsite. These minerals are turned into clay by water, and then this guy It was confirmed that this thing is a crater."

"This is actually a very unexpected discovery, because according to normal geological surface activities, a crater of this magnitude is simply a miracle."

The little friend who found the crater shrugged. He was actually shocked, so why was he so shocked?Anyway, I was very surprised.

— because it is too big!

How big is it?At first, scientists thought this place should be a basin...

"Have you heard of the Land of Abundance?"

"...Is it that big?"

"No, bigger than that."

"Depend on!"

If the Land of Abundance is actually a crater, would the giant pandas living there be so shocked that they would be overwhelmed?

"Not only that, but I also put the mineral data on the topographic map made with the images taken by the MRO camera. I made a 3D topographic map of the entire Arabian Terra. There are mineral-rich deposits in this place. , and their ash layer is very well preserved, not being mixed by wind and water, which is what we expected in advance—the ash layered in the same way that the sediment layered when it was fresh."

"...Can you come to a conclusion with me? What is the purpose of analyzing this thing?"

"Oh, the main reason is to calculate how much material will be released in each super-eruption, and then calculate the number of eruptions required in reverse according to the amount of ash."

"Wait, I probably understand... what you mean - if this abnormal volcanic activity is related to Usum!"

"Well, if it has anything to do with it."

"Then the previous super volcanic eruptions can be counted on it! Then we can even calculate... its activity cycle?"

"Yes, in fact other geological activities are also possible - the premise is to confirm that those geological activities are really related to Wusum."

It's also very easy to confirm. It's rare for something like a volcano to erupt once in a century or a thousand years. If you just finished playing with it before, there will be one here soon, then you can naturally confirm that there is a causal relationship.

Of course, it is also possible that the universe Bao Longxing played a trick on Huxing Changsum and took his son to deceive him.

"You are such a genius!"

"Isn't that nonsense, it's as if none of us are different."

"...That's right, I? What a genius!"

"Forget it, programmers don't have geniuses, only bald heads."

"you shut up!"

Everyone is nervously waiting, waiting for the imminent violent volcanic activity that can only be seen in 8 seconds - probably there will be.

If calculated according to the speed of light traveling 30 kilometers per second, it would take 21.03 minutes to observe the signs on the surface of Mars and then transmit the signal to the blue star.

Thanks to Bloodsea Transit World for reducing the delay. After all, high-definition, low-latency and no coding are the pursuit of all normal human beings.

Everyone waited, waited, and after a full 5 minutes, some unusual changes appeared on the quiet Mars.

"...It really happened." Someone muttered, and then quickly covered his mouth, holding his breath and watching the surface activities on Mars.

The entire Arabian Terra region seems to be slowly...moving...

Wusum must not be in the outermost layer of the earth's surface. This is a consensus that everyone presupposes.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for human beings to fail to discover Him through decades of tireless visual inspection!

No matter how big it is, as long as it moves a little bigger, it will be out of the scope of normal surface changes. Creatures and stones have different ways of moving.

The current estimate is that there is a large internal hollow area similar to a lava cavity underground on Mars, which can accommodate thousands of kilometers of Usum to sleep.

This is not an exaggerated expression, but a real astrophysical cognition gap.

Just like the current human activities, it is insignificant to the blue star and the earth.

Even if human beings dig down more than 1 meters, it is probably like a mosquito kicking hard on a watermelon-can you tell how deep the hole is?

And the depth of the Mariana Trench is nothing more than a slightly sunken mark on the watermelon.

Human beings yearn for the starry sky, but they have not yet deeply understood the earth under their feet.

I really don't know whether to say that human beings are so ambitious, or that the blue planet of the earth is infinitely mysterious...

In the silent image, certain areas on Mars are erupting violently with lava and gas.

On blue stars, volcanoes sometimes produce eruptions that release large amounts of dust and toxic gases into the air.

But at least during the time since human beings have appeared and been active until now, they have never seen such a violent volcanic eruption.

Even by visual inspection alone, they were able to estimate what the result of this scale of volcanic eruption would be on Blue Star—it would block sunlight and change the climate for decades or even centuries to come!

"As I previously calculated, an eruption of this magnitude would spread a thick layer of ash thousands of kilometers away from the eruption site. Volcanoes of this size do not leave mountainous remains because The crater will collapse into a huge hole with a diameter of tens of kilometers..."

"You said, is it possible that Wusum was on the surface back then, but because of too many geological changes, it was gradually covered by volcanic ash, so that it looked like it was hidden underground?"

"...Maybe—damn! Lava plume!"

Looking at the gorgeous lava plume on the screen, everyone exclaimed in unison, and even a few of the little friends went out of their way.

"This shit is not Wusum, I'll eat Oreos upside down, okay!"

"No, how heavy is it? Is this gravitational effect direct friction to generate heat?!"

The most famous place for lava plumes is Io.

The reason why Io can release a powerful lava plume with an eruption height of 500 kilometers into space is because Io has a large number of heat sources inside.

The formation mechanism of these heat is different from that of a big body like Blue Star. Generally, the heat of a planet like Blue Star comes from gravitational collapse and the decay of radioactive substances, that is, it is completely self-produced and sold, a family workshop-style handicraft industry.

The heat inside Jupiter comes from the gravitational effect of Jupiter on it.

On Io’s orbit, there are large differences between the perijove point and the apogee point, which will produce a huge gravitational difference. This gravitational difference makes the entire Io’s rock formations continue to friction and conduct heat to generate heat. These heat can even make it The rock inside melted, forming magma, which erupted from the crater.

In other words, the reason why the Arabian Terra crater is now able to spew out the spectacle of lava plumes is because Wusum's "turning over and twisting" action has caused the magma around it to squeeze and rub to the extreme, even The amount of eruption exceeded the normal geological activity, and the society exploded all at once!

"The calculation results are out. A single eruption... there is about 4 million Olympic swimming pools of lava, and this does not include the gas that cannot be calculated."

The little partner in charge of the calculation burst out the data with a voice almost whispering, but everyone was unwilling to speak anymore.

My baby is so tired... What kind of planetary monster is this...

"Our Blue Star also has this kind of caldera, and it's in Yellowstone National Park." A little friend said faintly.

Everyone's hairs stood on end: "We didn't!"

"Don't talk nonsense—"

"Yellowstone—everything is normal over there!"

If there is such a big guy on Blue Star, how can we live in the future?

In fact, the decision-makers of the Republic have always been incomprehensible to Gatanjah, which Aliya is afraid of, mainly because it is too ethereal and not enough data-based and concrete.