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"Not bad, pretty fast action."

The director of the Space Administration said.

Leaning back in his seat, he began to consider the possible scenarios.

He had expected space agencies from other countries to inquire about the situation, but he didn't expect the first to be from the Meriken side.

He just didn't know if this communication only represented the Space Administration, or if it had obtained full authorization from the President and Congress?

But no matter what, he would find out by connecting and chatting.

Of course, the communication couldn't take place here, there were too many people. He had to go to his office and conduct the communication under surveillance.

He made an excuse to leave, and the meeting continued in the conference room.

Directly changing the orbit of Tianwen-1 to specifically search for that unknown probe would definitely mean that its previously set mission could not be completed.

This was Tianxia's first Mars probe, undertaking a considerable number of tasks, and it would also provide data relay services for later probes.

If it was made to change its orbit now to search for that unknown probe, its fuel consumption would be quite rapid.

If the search time was uncertain, it might even consume all its fuel before finding the unknown probe, and then be pulled by Mars' gravity and crash on Mars.

If that were the case, the loss would be enormous.

They had already caught up with foreign aerospace achievements to a certain extent, and if they destroyed their own orbiter, it would be insane.

If it was really found, then it would be fine, and it would be considered a great achievement.

But if it couldn't be found, or if it was found and it turned out that the thing was not an alien probe, but a secret probe from some country, then it would be a huge loss.

The second method, using a network of space telescopes to form a "Horizon Telescope", was less risky.

This method could be carried out on Earth, just like capturing the photo of the black hole back then.

That mission used eight radio telescopes distributed in various parts of the world to jointly observe the same target source and record the data, forming a virtual telescope with a diameter equivalent to the Earth's diameter, increasing the angular resolution of the telescope to a degree sufficient to observe the event horizon scale structure.

It's a bit complicated to explain, but just know that it's very impressive.

By networking telescopes in different locations and forming a virtual telescope with a super-large virtual aperture, extremely small objects in the far distance can be observed.

It's just that this method is too troublesome.

First of all, humans don't know the specific coordinates of that probe, so they can't even observe at a fixed point, they still have to search first before they can observe.

Secondly, even if it is observed, the image of the unknown probe may not be clear.

Just like the first black hole photo of mankind, people imagined it as such and such a clear picture, but after seeing the real thing, people's reaction was...

That's it?

Yes, it's too blurry.

It should be known that tens of millions of GB of data were generated when shooting that black hole, and it took more than two years of processing to get a black hole photo that was not very clear.

Although Mars is close, the probe is also small, only a few meters in size.

That black hole is 55 million light-years away from Earth and is estimated to have 6.4 billion times the mass of the sun.

It's really hard to say who is bigger or smaller when proportionally converted.

So, if only domestic telescopes are networked, it is really impossible to determine what is being photographed.

And it takes too much time.

It is best to find out what this unknown thing is as soon as possible, and don't let the alien's interstellar fleet arrive before Earth has analyzed anything.

Then what's the point of playing!

So, it is best to carry out international cooperation in this matter, it is too difficult for a single country to do it.

As long as countries with capabilities unite, and even sign an effective contract to ensure that accurate data from Mars will be shared in the future, then why not change the orbit of the Mars probe to search for that unknown satellite.

Several probes cooperate, exchange data, and the location of the signal source received at different times must be different. Locking in this way, and then calculating, will definitely be able to pinpoint the location of the unknown probe to a relatively small range.

That would definitely be fast and save fuel.

But I really don't know if other countries will cooperate, because this may be the first time humans have come into contact with alien civilizations.

This name, and the possible benefits behind it, are really not small.

Humans are very strange creatures. While considering cooperation, they are also considering stabbing in the back.

Especially when the final benefits are very huge, or even just possibly very huge.

While they were talking about these issues, Tang Chao was already considering the first method.

Mars probes on Earth are relatively precious, which is understandable, after all, the funds of various countries are limited.

The vast majority of funds and resources are actually used in people's livelihoods.

The proportion of funds used in the scientific research field, especially in the aerospace field, is not much, or even extremely small.

But the situation is different on the Can Star side. The funds in the aerospace field definitely account for the majority.

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Moreover, industrial bases have been established on the moon and Mars-like planets on the Can Star side, and many aerospace facilities are now manufactured there, which is cheaper.

Tang Chao can take out a "Mars probe" at any time, or a probe using the advanced power system of Can Star, and say that the company had a Mars exploration plan a long time ago, and it just happened to be completed now.

The currently commonly used Mars exploration orbit by humans is not the one with the shortest flight time, but the one that saves the most fuel. In fact, it goes around in a big circle.

So Tang Chao can use the new Mars probe and accelerate all the way with full power.

Because it is an unmanned probe, there is no need to consider human endurance. Even if it is not the best time to explore Mars now, it can be reached within a month.

By then, not much time will be wasted, and there is no need to worry about searching for that unknown probe, because Tang Chao can use it as a disposable probe.

He actually has his own benefits in doing so, because the probe is his, and he has the first-hand right to obtain information.

He can even set permissions, and even if he sends information to multiple targets at the same time, he will definitely receive the most.

It's not him boasting, he is definitely the most suitable person in human beings to deal with alien affairs, because the little green people are also aliens to some extent.

It's just that for some reason they directly became his subordinates.

Moreover, he has Can Star technology and the entire Can Star as his backing. He can now let the little green people build space battleships to deal with aliens who may arrive at any time.

Whether it's good or bad, it's always right to deter them with space battleships first.

Even if he is no match, at least he has resisted, and he can still give himself time to retreat into Can Star, and then use the ten times the development speed to become stronger and come back for revenge.

Of course, this is to confirm that that thing is an alien probe, and the worst case scenario occurs.

The real situation is not necessarily like this.

After all, that unknown probe did not come to Earth, but was directly captured by Mars' gravity and stayed in Mars' orbit.

This shows that the other party's aerospace technology is not very advanced.

At least that probe should be about the same as Earth's aerospace level.

In fact, this is also the entanglement of the informed countries.

This thing may be at the same level as Earth's technology, and then suddenly appear on Mars. It may be a hidden probe carried by a certain country on Earth when launching a Mars probe.

The signal being detected this time may just be a malfunction, and the unknown language may be garbled code formed by the malfunction, or a new encryption method.

Anyway, this unknown probe is very strange.

But the stranger it is, the more it arouses human interest.

Just as they were discussing, the director came in again. He asked everyone to be quiet and said, "Just now, the Meriken Space Administration had a video call with me, and we exchanged some non-confidential information."

"According to their meaning, they plan to cooperate in this search mission, not only us, but also several other major space agencies."

"It's just that they haven't received permission from Congress and the President, and they don't plan to directly persuade Congress and the President. They plan to explain the actual situation at the United Nations General Assembly, and then get voting support, and hope that we can send some representatives. What do you think?"