Chapter 1092 (1/2)
Taking a deep breath, Wang Qiang calmed down the excitement and uneasiness in his chest. Wang Qiang cast his eyes out of the window, and the land was as red as fire.
He will spend the rest of his life in this new world, if there is no accident.
”Don't breathe. Don't wait. We're all with you for lack of oxygen.” The man sitting opposite him laughed and joked.
Friendly laughter rang out in the colony cabin, and the tense atmosphere was relaxed a lot.
At a distance of more than 80 million kilometers, the blue planet can no longer be seen here. Although the moment they set foot on the colonial warship, they were ready to devote their lives to the space industry, but recalling all kinds of things on earth, the twenty colonists sitting here still couldn't help but feel a trace of nostalgia for their homeland.
No one knows what will be waiting for them.
They were not only the first pioneers to colonize Mars, but also the first to set foot on this land. No matter how many space agencies have observed the planet before, no one can say that they know it 100% before the footprints of human beings are printed on this land.
However, the thought that they are opening up territory for human civilization gives them some comfort.
The colonial ship has entered the synchronous orbit and stopped above the landing site. Next, the captain can order an empty landing only after the command from the command center.
After relaxing his whole body on the cushion of the cushion seat, Wang Qiang closed his eyes and prepared to have a rest for a while.
However, as soon as the eyes were closed and opened again, it was an hour later.
”All personnel, the command has issued the landing order. The colonial module will be separated from the colonial ship in 10 seconds and enter the landing phase. Now let's start the countdown, 10, 9, 8... ”
”Why so fast.”
As soon as Wang Qiang opened his eyes, he heard the countdown electronic sound. Before he had time to prepare himself, he couldn't help being flustered. However, the colonial warship did not give him that flustered time, and the countdown soon went to zero.
With a slight shudder, the whole Tiangong split into two, and the 200 meter long abdominal compartment began to separate from the ship.
From a distance, the whole colony cabin looks like a flat cuboid, pulled by six plasma engines, falling towards the red land.
The synchronous orbit of Mars is only 17000 km, the gravity is only four ninth of the earth's, and the atmosphere is thin. Although the difficulty of landing is slightly greater than that of the moon, it is much smaller than that of the earth.
When the colony module kept a downward tilt attitude, the moment of contact with the atmosphere, the six engines turned around and ejected more intense arc light, dragging the colony cabin, and steadily stopped the momentum of accelerated fall in the reverse jet.
The high-temperature ions ejected downward are wrapped tightly around the outside of the colony module. From a distance, it looks like a blue meteor.
In the air across an arc, this 200 meter long flat cuboid, like a huge foot, fell from the sky and printed on this piece of land.
Long!
With the deafening sound of the whole ear, the red sand was blown around and swung hundreds of meters away.
Steel needles as thick as thighs pop up from the bottom of the colony, nailed into the red sand, and directly penetrated into the rock layers tens of meters below, firmly fixing the colony cabin on the desert, serving as the ”foundation” of the whole colony.
The deployment on the ground is finished, and the movements in the sky are not stopped.
The colonial warships, which have lost their belly pods, are still floating in synchronous orbit. In the next decade or so, they will continue to exert their residual heat as geostationary satellites to provide communication, meteorological observation, crisis warning and other services for the Martian colonies.
At this point, the deployment process of the colony module is finally completed.
The shaking outside finally stopped, and the lights in the cabin lit up again and again.