Chapter 1543 (1/2)

Europa, astronomically known as Europa.

It has nothing to do with Europa. It is named after a beautiful Phoenician princess in ancient Greek mythology. Although they are the same in spelling, their meanings are very different.

And the fact has proved that floating in the deep and dark universe, this suspected pregnant planet of life is really as beautiful as a foreign princess.

On the vast glacier, there are layers of fine pieces of ice flying. From time to time, the icicles ejected from the cracks scatter in the air like the ginkgo trees. The rarefied atmosphere contains a tiny amount of oxygen, which is not worth mentioning when compared with the amount of oxygen in the earth's atmosphere.

Standing on the vast white glacier, a small half of the sky is occupied by the giant Jupiter, which has been embedded into the horizon from the sky, which gives people the illusion that if you keep walking towards Jupiter, you can get to Jupiter.

Because of plagiarism lock-in, that huge planet will always hover there. Most of the light comes from the sunlight reflected by Jupiter. As for the sun itself, it is just a soft bright spot. Therefore, the side facing Jupiter is always bright, the glacier is illuminated with snow white, and the side facing away from Jupiter is endless darkness.

The temperature at the equator is below - 160 degrees, and the temperature at the poles is below - 200 degrees centigrade. The ice on Europa's surface is several kilometers thick, and under that several kilometers of ice, there is an ocean deeper than the earth.

But on the whole, the climate here is much better than on Titan.

Between the two glaciers is a black colony.

As for the reason why we choose black, which is out of keeping with the background, it is natural to draw more light and heat from Jupiter from the limited light illumination.

Just then, the door of the colony slowly opened, and a space vehicle drove out of the garage toward a nearby well.

”This is number z1214. It has arrived at the destination, the drilling platform is in good condition and the battery is being replaced.”

”Received Please keep us informed. ”

”I understand.”

Wearing a heavy spacesuit, an engineer jumped out of the vehicle, opened the trunk of the vehicle, took out a battery about the size of a laptop from it, and walked towards the drilling platform.

His name is Tan Ming. He comes from China and belongs to the first group of immigrants in the cooperative development plan of the Earth Defense Alliance. Before he set foot on the land, he had only one month of adaptability training on the moon. As for what he's carrying now, it's a nuclear battery with helium trioxide and tritium in it, wrapped in a thick lead barrier.

The gravity environment on Europa is slightly better than that of Titan, about one seventh of the earth's gravity, slightly lower than that of the moon. But anyone who has received training in space walking in Guanghan City can easily adapt to this degree of gravity.

Jumping onto the bracket, Tan Ming took out the wrench from behind, twisted the bolt fixed on the battery interface, pulled out a data cable, connected it to the wrist computer on the arm, and typed in the unlock password.

With a slight sound of air leakage, the movable door for fixing the battery pops open.

Skillfully took the battery off the rig, then he put the battery in his left hand into the groove, then closed the battery door again and tightened the fixed bolts.

”This is No. z1214. The battery has been replaced and the drilling power supply is normal.”

”Check the drill bit.”

”Under examination...” Tan Ming typed in a few buttons on the wrist computer. Looking at the progress bar, he was relieved and continued, ”the drill is in good condition. Do you want me to turn it on?”

”Open it.”

Skillfully jumping off the support of the drilling platform, the engineer floated steadily to the ground.

With the rumbling sound coming from the soles of the feet, the drilling platform behind began to run again.