Chapter 1095 (1/2)

[June 27, 2019]

writing down the beginning of the line in his diary, Wang Qiang sniffed and looked out of the window at the sky blocked by the sandstorm.

A day on Mars is only 37 minutes longer than that on earth. If the earth's 24-hour clock is used, it should still be more than 3:00 p.m., but it is already dusk here.

After his initial excitement, he has lost the excitement he had when he first landed on Mars.

Life on Mars is boring, and communication resources are precious. Of course, it is impossible to use it for Internet. Before the completion of large-scale communication base stations, each person had only 10 minutes of telephone time every day to call their relatives and friends on the earth, which was the only way for them to obtain information on the earth.

Without the Internet, it is a kind of torture for modern people.

This means that you can't look at your cell phone, brush your neck, or wear a phantom helmet to go to the virtual world. Half of modern people's entertainment has to be marked with a big red cross.

For Wang Qiang, his daily entertainment is listening to the popular music on the earth and reading the novels brought from the earth. The rhythm of his life seems to slow down at once. Most other people are the same, they will find something to do after work.

Fortunately, among the 20 colonists in the colony, there was a chef who was good at the four major cuisines. The material reserves in the colonial cabin were quite abundant, and they could eat them for different tastes every day. As a result, eating has become one of their few entertainment.

In order to boost the morale of the colonists, the captain assured them that he would apply to the command center at the end of this month and bring more chefs to the next batch of colonists. On the one hand, we have to take care of the food of several foreigners. On the other hand, we can change our tastes.

The sandstorm outside the window is getting bigger and bigger, but Wang Qiang seems to have not seen it. He continues to write something in his diary with his pen. It was a habit he developed after he came to Mars, mainly to pass the time.

As for why he was so calm, he knew that as long as it was not the level of typhoon 13, he could not blow away his Mars rover with fixed anchor. The largest dust storm on Mars seems to be on the 12th scale since records were made.

Before he was sent to Mars, he was a geologist for the mining industry of the future, and of course, he is now. There is only one task assigned to him by the command center, which is to explore the geological information of Mars, look for minerals, and evaluate the reserves of groundwater.

Although steel can be made with a shovel of sand, heavy industry needs not only steel, but also elements such as aluminum, manganese, chromium, cobalt and nickel, which are covered by sand.

The colonial warship on the synchronous orbit has scanned the geological information map of this area. According to the geomorphic features on the topographic map, he has identified several places where mineral deposits and groundwater enrichment areas may exist. And his next month's work is to drive a Mars rover to inspect these mines one by one, and complete the final geological information mapping work.

Although from the beginning did not dream that this is a relaxed job, but the conditions are still beyond his expectation.

The whole Mars is a desert, there is no shelter at all. This is his fifth sandstorm today. If it was not for the colonial warship over his head monitoring the weather data all the time, he would not have dared to get off the bus.

Mars Climate is changeable, sandstorms come and go quickly.

When the wind index returned to the safe value, the yellow sky finally reappeared in his sight.

Due to the thin atmosphere, there are more and larger dust particles. Due to the mill scattering effect, the dust scatters red light with the same wavelength as its own particle size. The sky is red in the direction of the sun's line of sight, but the light around the sun is blue.

Such a magnificent view can only be seen on Mars.

However, looking at it every day will be boring and crooked. No matter how beautiful the scenery is, it has become a common sight to see more. Wang Qiang began to miss Coro Island, the beautiful island, the sea breeze mixed with seafood flavor, and the blue sea and blue sky.