Chapter 32 Chapter 4 The Green Planet

"Explorer" is still flying in the vast universe. Pilosi sat on the spring seat in the cockpit, watching her father.Father furrowed his eyebrows tightly, and there were more wrinkles on his forehead. He looked at his beloved again, and there were fine wrinkles at the corners of his beloved's eyes.She said with deep emotion: "Father, you are getting old. And you, Niccolò, are getting old too!" "My child, we have been flying in the universe for so many years, how can we not age!" Sogeken said kindly. "My dear, am I getting old too?" Pilosi asked Niccolo.

"No," Niccolo looked at her face with a happy smile on his lips, "my dear, you are still young and beautiful." "You lied to me!" Pilosi said coquettishly. She walked to the console and quickly pressed a button, and her current three-dimensional image appeared on the bulkhead.She pressed another button, and immediately next to the one on the bulkhead a three-dimensional image of herself as she set off on the Explorer appeared. "Will they come after us?" the reflection of her departure asked uneasily. "Honey, am I getting old too?" Her current reflection looked at Niccolo and asked.

Although these two images are both bronze in color, there is obviously some difference in age. Niccolo looked at her current reflection from the spring seat and said, "You can't compare like that." "Niccollo is right," Sogkin said in a solemn tone, "Science cannot replace feelings." "But we haven't found a green planet yet." Pilosi's voice was a bit sad. "We will definitely find it," Niccolo said with a firm expression, "the star in front of us has planets, maybe it's a green planet." Sogekken flicked a switch, and the bulkhead seemed to become transparent.The dark sky is full of stars.Tianyuan 4, which was once a fiery flame, is now an unremarkable little star in the constellation Eridanus.The sun, a small star point that was not taken seriously on Eposna, now hangs high in front of the "Explorer" spacecraft, and its intense light surpasses Sirius by countless times!In addition to the sun, the brightest of the stars is the star Sirius.It's just that Sirius doesn't seem to be in Virgo anymore, it has moved almost a quarter of the sky and landed in the constellation Canis Major.

"Explorer" has flown to the solar system. Niccolo switched on a telescope on the spaceship, and several magnified planets in the solar system immediately appeared on the bulkhead.Among them is a green-green color, surrounded by a layer of blue halo.Pilosi and Niccolo shouted almost at the same time: "Green planet!" The atmosphere in the cockpit suddenly became active, and Pilosi hummed and sang Eposner's folk song, dancing with hands and feet.Niccolo followed and stayed with her.The two happily danced around the console and circled along the bulkhead. Old Sogeken's eyebrows stretched out, with a relieved smile on the corner of his mouth, he said to himself:

"This trip finally did not fail..." The "Explorer" flew into the solar system and passed through the orbits of Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus in turn. Saturn's orange-yellow round surface and two beautiful rings inside and outside pass by the side of the "Explorer". Jupiter and its fourteen moons appear in front of the spacecraft.Jupiter is colorful, and many colorful stripes and bands are arranged staggered on the huge spherical surface, which is very spectacular. The spaceship of the four people in Tianyuan crossed the orbit of Mars and flew towards the green planet|——the earth.

For days, the azure Earth hung high over the side of the Explorer spacecraft.The people in the spaceship have long been immersed in joy. Pilosi became very interested in the moon, and she said enviously: "It would be great if Eposna also had such a yellow satellite!" "Have you missed Eposner?" Niccolo asked. "No, I'll never think about it again." A disgusted look appeared on Pilosi's face. Pilosi became increasingly interested in the moon.At her repeated request, Sogekken agreed to circle over the moon and then enter the earth.Niccolo expertly calculated orbital parameters and fed new instructions to the computer.

The spaceship flies over the moon, and the moon is a gray world.When Pelosi saw such a desolate scene on the moon with her own eyes from the porthole, she was disappointed: "Another starless planet," "Explorer" left the moon far behind. When the spacecraft accurately entered Earth orbit, Niccolo shut down the engine.Pilosi, Niccolo, and Sogekken no longer relied on the reflection on the bulkhead, but looked greedily at the green planet from the porthole.They were all stunned by the majesty, beauty and beauty of the earth. The sun was in the sky, and there was a blue-white flame in the middle, and people dared not look directly at it.The bright stars in the sky are especially eye-catching when they fall to the horizon.At first they were radiant; in a moment they dimmed again;It was as if the stars were passing through a mist on the horizon.

The light shines on the continent and in the ocean, and the outline of water and land is very clear.Blossoming white clouds floating above the earth, very beautiful.Over the Pacific Ocean, there was a huge storm.Lightning is like a light in the clouds, flickering on and off.In sunny places, the tall mountains are lush and green, the wide rivers are like jade belts, the wilderness of Australia is green, and the plains of Asia, Europe and Africa are golden everywhere. The sun gradually went down, and a group of gorgeous colors unfolded in front of their eyes.Orange red, golden orange, deep yellow, light green, light blue, and dark purple are intertwined, reflecting the atmosphere from both sides of the sun.

"Ah, it's so beautiful!" Pilosi exclaimed happily. The spacecraft entered the shadow of the earth, and a bright moon shone brightly in the night sky.The moonlight poured on the clouds, creating an ethereal and mythical artistic conception. "It's so haunting!" said Sogkin involuntarily. In the darkness, Niccolo exclaimed: "Look, there's fire on the ground!" Both Saugken and Pilosi stared at the bulkhead, and sure enough, they saw that there were many dots of fire somewhere underground.Sogkin said thoughtfully: "This is evidence of human activity on Earth!"

"Get ready to choose a landing point right away?" Niccolo asked excitedly. Sogkin nodded. "I'm going to live on the green planet!" After that, Pilosi sang again. Niccolo turned on the space remote sensor on the console.The topography, landforms, and geological conditions on the ground immediately appeared on the bulkhead, and automatically selected false-color remote sensing photos were continuously spit out from a narrow slit in the console. Although the alternation of night and day is much faster on the spacecraft than on the ground, this does not hinder the work of space remote sensors.In a few days, Niccolò made a census of the whole earth.He selected four remote sensing photos that can be used as landing sites and said:

"Look, where is a better place to land?" The pictures are of the central plains of Australia, the southeastern plains and southwestern plateaus of Eurasia, and the central plains of North America.After they made a careful comparison, Sogeken pointed to a spot on the photo of the southeastern plain of the Eurasian continent and said, "Just land here!" "Okay. Let's fly a few more laps in orbit and conduct a detailed sounding next time we pass through this area." Niccolo said. All three of them were very happy, as if in a happy festival. Niccolo hummed the tune in a low voice, instructing the computer to recalculate the spacecraft's current orbit and possible landing route.Then, check whether the manual operating system is normal.Then, he went down from a spiral staircase in the cockpit to check the control cabin, food cabin, living cabin, and engine cabin.After he came up, he said confidently: "This time the landing will be successful." Pilosi smiled.She was thinking to herself, after landing on the green planet later, she must have a taste of the flora and fauna on the green planet.But what about the dishes on this strange planet?At that time, there will be a way anyway.However, the question of where to live cannot be ignored.Living on a spaceship is inconvenient and undesirable, so let my father try to build a house, just like the one I live in Eposna.Alas, what is Eposner doing, what a pleasure it would be to live on this green planet! The sun shone in through the porthole and moved quickly across Saugkin's face.Sogeken is thinking about how to move some instruments and equipment from the spaceship to the ground, how to build a living base on the ground, and how to communicate with the people on Earth... Pilosi was not surprised when he saw that the bulkhead above the porthole suddenly became transparent automatically.She knows that this is only the case in emergencies. "Father, look!" Pilosi yelled, the bronze color on his face suddenly turned pink. Outside the cabin, the Perseid meteors rushed towards the spacecraft. From the transparent bulkhead, Sogekken saw a meteor the size of a skull heading straight for the "Explorer". "Put on the spacesuit quickly!" Sorgken said calmly, "However, there will be no problem. As soon as the meteor approaches the spacecraft, the automatic laser cannon will destroy it." They quickly put on their space suits and stared out of the cabin. When the meteor approached the spaceship, a beam of intense laser light was emitted from the spaceship, and the meteor turned into a puff of green smoke and died. No one expected that when the laser cannon had just wiped out the meteor, another slightly smaller meteor followed closely behind it.It hit the Explorer spacecraft on a straight line. With a loud noise like thunder, the spaceship shook violently. Sogkin was stunned by the unexpected turn of events.Pilosi was thrown on the seat, panicked, and his face was very ugly. The experienced Niccolo remained calm. He quickly grabbed the joystick of the manual control system, trying his best to control the flight situation of the spacecraft and stabilize the spacecraft.At this time, the emergency signal lights on the console flashed, the siren issued a terrifying scream, and both the manual control system and the automatic driving system failed!Niccolo broke out in a cold sweat. The artificial gravity generator is broken.With a slight movement, they floated up from the seat. "Pilosi continues to monitor here, Niccolo and I will go downstairs to check!" Suogeken woke up from the stupefaction. Niccolo followed Sorgken and floated in the direction of the spiral staircase.Due to the sudden loss of artificial gravity, they moved unnaturally in a state of weightlessness, and finally floated from the spiral staircase to the control cabin below. "It's serious!" Through the transparent mask, Suogeken's old face looked very serious. The aftermath of the meteor strike was catastrophic for them.It penetrated the outer shell of the spaceship and opened a large hole half a person's height in the bulkhead of the control module.The edge of the hole is jagged, as if it was blasted by a powerful bomb.The main control equipment in the control cabin and the backup control equipment placed next to it were all smashed, and the communication equipment was also destroyed.The meteor didn't stop there, it blew another hole in the floor that could almost fit a person through. They moved on the railing with their hands, and drifted from the spiral staircase to the control cabin.On this floor, one of the largest working cabins and one living cabin were broken down.In the end, the meteor left a hole the size of a skull on the outer wall of the habitat, with jagged edges. After they inspected the engine bay, Niccolo said: "The engine was not damaged at all." "The controls are all gone, and the engines are dead," said Sogkin resignedly.He already had a premonition of what this disaster meant to them. Niccolo hung unnaturally in the air, re-closed the airtight doors of the penetrated cabins, and tightened all the accident bolts.When they swam back to the cockpit, Pilosi had already measured the new operating parameters of the "Explorer" after it was hit.When she was in Eposna, she had studied the theory of automatic control in an institution of higher learning; over the years, she had learned a lot about the use of automatic test instruments on the spacecraft.Now, she is able to work independently. "Our operating altitude has dropped, and our operating speed has increased." Pilosi reported to them after taking off his spacesuit. "The orbit of the spaceship?" Niccolo asked while taking off his space suit. "Still in satellite orbit, but with a much smaller orbital radius than before," Pelosi replied. "What happens to the density of air molecules?" Sogkin asked after taking off his spacesuit. Pilosi handed him the probe's sampling data, and another gloomy cloud crossed his wrinkled face. "Such a large density of air molecules is enough to slow down the spaceship gradually, and finally..." Sogeken didn't continue.He wanted to say that he was going to crash on this green planet in the end, but he was afraid that his daughter would not be able to bear the blow, so he stopped talking. "Father, you don't need to hide it from me. I know everything." Pilosi said sadly, "I have calculated just now. If calculated according to the earth year, there will be..." Pilosi stretched out her hand, and like all the Tianyuan four, she only had four fingers on her palm.She turned her palms upside down three times, and said, "For three or four years, our spaceship will operate as a satellite of the Earth. It will neither fly away nor land. Finally, when the time comes, The ship is about to crash." "In these three or four years, we may still be able to figure out a way to save ourselves..." Niccolo comforted her. Pilosi's eyes were moist, and two crystal clear teardrops rolled down his face.She broke down in tears and said: "I shouldn't have led you down this dangerous road..." "We've finally seen a green planet, and it's worth it," Niccolo said indulgently. Sogkin said calmly: "You're right. During our time as satellites of this planet, there's still a lot we can do to benefit science. We can tell the people on Eposna about our important discoveries." "This is no longer possible, the communication equipment on the ship is beyond repair." Niccolo reminded. "In these three or four years, we can study this planet with undamaged instruments and equipment, and we can leave a lot of useful information to humans on this planet. They may establish contact with Eposna in the future." Saugkin continued. Pilosi no longer cried, she was deeply moved by her father's dedication to science.Niccolo was also affected by this atmosphere, and his heart was warm. Sogkin raised his broad forehead and said forcefully: "Don't think about things that are irreparable. We must always focus on the future." Pilosi cheered up from remorse, fear, and depression. Together with Niccolo and Sogekken, she used space remote sensors and other instruments on the severely damaged and powerless "Explorer" to Various information on the earth has been detected, and the distribution and activities of human beings on the earth have been studied.They even took a color photo in the southeast of Eurasia once, showing many yellow-skinned people looking up at their spaceship.