What about helium-3 gas? How much has been collected? Compared to water, Zhang Jun is obviously more concerned about the resource of helium-3. You know, they have drawn so much on the lunar exploration project and the lunar scientific expedition station project just to be able to get these
Helium III resources, this is related to the success or failure of this project and whether they can make money while recovering costs.
Hearing Zhang Jun's words, everyone else present also looked at Zhou Xiangming. Even Wu Hao couldn't help but look at him. He was also very concerned about this result.
Seeing that many people were asking, Zhou Xiangming smiled at Wu Hao and said, "It's not so fast. We need to analyze the collected gases generated by the heating of the lunar soil now, and then we can get the relevant gas composition report."
Judging from our previous analysis, these gases contain helium-3, but the content cannot be determined yet, and we need to wait for further analysis reports.
In addition to helium-3 gas, we also analyzed and detected oxygen, hydrogen, argon and other elements."
How long will it take? Zhang Jun asked immediately.
Zhou Xiangming asked the staff around him and then stretched out three fingers towards Wu Hao and Zhang Jun: "It will take about three hours. We also need to send the gas to our laboratory set up on the moon for detection and analysis."
, so that we can know the accurate results.”
Hearing Zhou Xiangming's words, Wu Hao, Zhang Jun and others nodded. This matter cannot be rushed. Now they have confirmed the existence of helium-3 in these gases. They are just confirming the specific reserves. This result is actually not that urgent.
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What to do next? Wu Hao looked at the lunar scientific research station that had been completed on the big screen, and then asked Zhou Xiangming.
After hearing Wu Hao's inquiry, Zhou Xiangming immediately looked at the big screen and introduced Wu Hao and Zhang Jun.
"At present, we have completed the installation of large-capacity remote communication antennas and solar power stations. Now we can directly communicate with the moon without going through relay satellites.
The completion of all the installation of solar cell sail panels can provide relatively abundant power for our related equipment and subsequent related work.
We are currently building an energy storage power station so that we can store the continuous electrical energy generated by these solar cell sail panels.
The next work is mainly two-fold. On the one hand, it is to increase the detection of nearby areas, especially this kind of trial mining, so as to clarify the nearby resource reserves, which is very important for our future exploration of resources in these areas.
The other is to continue to use the lunar soil 3D printer to print lunar soil square tiles, and then use these square tiles to lay the lunar surface.
Now our multi-purpose engineering robot has begun to level the foundation area, removed some scattered rocks on the moon in this area, and filled in the small craters.
In addition to this area, we will also level the entire area where the research station is located, including the entire landing area, etc. This work will take half a year or even longer because this area is too large.
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Speaking of this, Zhou Xiangming showed a wry smile and said: "In fact, our leveling behavior has been criticized by many so-called experts and space agencies abroad, saying that we are deliberately destroying the lunar landscape, which is a crime and unforgivable."
Hearing Zhou Xiangming's words, Wu Hao chuckled, then waved his hands and said: "Don't pay attention to them, they are just farting, there is no meaning at all."
"I think it's just jealousy. They are jealous of our achievements on the moon, so they give us a hard time. When it comes to destroying the lunar landscape, they were way ahead of us. We don't know who raced on the moon first.
Those ruts are still there, who dug the holes on the moon?" Zhang Jun said with an angry look on his face.
Wu Hao smiled when he saw this: "People can't eat grapes, why don't you allow them to be sour? The mouth is on their face, let them talk. The hands are on our bodies, what do we want to do?
Do you have them?"
"That's right." Zhang Jun clapped his hands and said, "No matter what, just do it with confidence and without any psychological burden. They can't do anything to us."
Okay. After hearing what Zhang Jun and Wu Hao said, Zhou Xiangming and the technicians behind them all nodded and smiled.
"After the foundation area of the research station is leveled, we will officially start laying bricks. We have printed more than a hundred square bricks of lunar soil. The entire area is about 800 square meters in total, which means that we will probably
This requires more than 30,000 bricks.
According to the current printing speed, it will take us at least more than a year to print.
Of course, we will continue to simplify the process and improve the speed in the future, and we will also send another lunar soil 3D printer to the moon, so that we can complete 800 square meters of square bricks within the specified time limit.
layout.
After all the square tiles are laid, we will also lay the second layer of square tiles and the third layer of square tiles in the construction area. We will also use the newly sent large-scale printer to the moon to start printing the outlines of some buildings.
Our newly designed large-scale 3D lunar soil printer is very large, covering an area of twenty meters by ten meters. Its total weight can reach nearly ten tons."
"So heavy!"
Wu Hao and Zhang Jun were both surprised when they heard Zhou Xiangming's introduction. Although Wu Hao knew that the printer was very huge, he still didn't expect it to be so big and heavy.
Seeing everyone's surprised look, Zhou Xiangming said with a smile: "Actually, this is not its largest form. If necessary, we can further expand its volume through growth tracks, so that we can print larger ones.
The building comes out.
This is mainly due to the cruel environment of the moon, so the buildings we print must be formed in one piece to ensure the sealing and pressure resistance of the entire building space.
Only in this way can we ensure the personal safety of the astronauts and scientific researchers living in these buildings. There is no room for shoddy projects on this moon, and even the smallest mistakes may have serious consequences."
Seeing everyone nodding, Zhou Xiangming continued: "The parts of this large-scale 3D lunar soil printer alone are more than 100,000. This large-scale 3D lunar soil printer will be tested on the earth. Once everything is normal, it will
It will be disassembled into large and small components and then put into our lunar cargo transportation system, which will then transport it up.
Then we use our engineering robots and intelligent control robots to assemble it on the moon. This assembly time alone takes about half a month."
