Chapter 21 Chapter 16 Landing

The landing process was just as Captain Smith expected. It descended and landed gradually. No one could tell when the Cosmos touched the ground. Everyone paid attention to it for a whole minute. When the passengers realized that the spaceship had landed, There was a burst of cheers from everyone. The spacecraft was docked at one end of a shallow valley surrounded by small hills about a hundred meters high.Anyone who expected to see something similar to the surface of the moon will be surprised because the structure here is completely different from the harder and flat surface of the moon. It is full of dry sand, which was caused by the impact of small meteorites billions of years ago. of.

Nothing here is more than a thousand years old, and the pyramids are far older than these ring landscapes.Every time Halley circled the sun, he was altered and shrunk by the sun's flames.That is, since passing through the perihelion in 1986, the shape of the core has subtly changed. Welles synthesized all kinds of metaphors well, telling his audience; "This 'peanut' has become a waist!" In fact, there have been early indications that Halley might split into two similarly sized fission bodies just a few more times around the sun, as Comet Barra surprised astronomers in 1846 Same.

In fact, the invisible gravity is also one of the main reasons for this strange landscape. Around Halley, there are spider-like structures that resemble the fantasy of surrealist artists, and the accumulation of rocks that cannot last for a few minutes even on the moon. . Although Captain Smith made the comet's late-night polar landing (five kilometers away from the sun's hot gas), it was bright enough because the huge glowing halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet created a glowing halo of light that would have negative impact on the polar regions. It seems to be very appropriate, people who see it can easily think of the aurora playing on the Antarctic ice.If the rings aren't bright enough, comets can provide the brightness of hundreds of full moons.

The complete absence of color is still disappointing, although preconceived; Cosmos appears to be parked in an open coal mine, which is actually a good idea, as the surrounding darkness is due to carbon or carbide It is caused by mixing directly with snow and ice. Captain Smith was the first person to leave the spaceship, and he slowly walked out through the main hatch of the Cosmos.With a sense of eternity in his mind as he stepped onto land two meters below the hatch, he picked up a handful of powdery ground matter and examined it in his gloved hands. The spaceship has landed on Halley's Comet, and everyone's looking forward to some great stories that will last forever.

"Looks like pepper and salt," said the captain, "and when it's melted down, it might make a good crop." The mission will spend a full Harley "day" here, which is equivalent to fifty-five hours at the South Pole, and then, if there are no problems here, will move ten kilometers to the poorly defined equator and spend another hour. Spend all day and night studying one of the fountains. The Chief Scientist, Pandary, would not waste time asking.Immediately, he and a colleague boarded a two-person jet sled and raced to the "signal light" that had been curious for a long time and was waiting to be detected.They were back within an hour with a packaged sample of the comet, which they proudly sent away for cryopreservation.

Meanwhile, other groups built a spiderweb of cables along the valley, anchored to the fragile crust with struts.These cables can not only communicate with many instruments on the spacecraft, but also facilitate activities outside the cabin of the spacecraft.One can explore this part of Harley without the help of cumbersome outdoor mobile equipment. He only needs to grab a cable and then walk step by step while holding the line. This is much more fun than manipulating outdoor mobile equipment. Because outdoor mobile equipment is actually a one-person spaceship, it is a very complicated thing to control.

Passengers stared at it all in bewilderment, listening to the conversations on the radio, trying to bask in the excitement of the novelty.After about twelve hours (much faster for ex-spacecrewman Grinber), the audience locked in Space City started to get overwhelmed, the passengers started to get frustrated, and soon there were a lot of demands from the crowd" Go outside and have a look" voice, only Willis did not ask, he is a completely obedient person. "I think he's afraid," said Mikhailovitch contemptuously.He had always disliked Willis because the scientist never listened to other people's opinions.While it's extremely unfair to Willis (who used to playfully use himself as a guinea pig to study his own strange obsessions), Mikhailovich liked to underline: "A music-free Literate people must be treacherous, resourceful and spoiled."

Dr. Buddha made up his mind to experience as much as possible before leaving the earth's orbit; and Mobella is a person who likes to experiment, so no special encouragement is needed. Her famous saying is: "A writer can never refuse any one. An opportunity to experience new experiences." This sentence had a great impact on her emotional life. Eva Merlin is fraught as usual, but Dr. Buddha decides to take her on a personal tour of the comet himself.This was the least he could do to maintain his reputation. Everyone knew that this legendary hermit would be on the passenger list, and Dr. Buddha had to bear part of the responsibility.And now it is widely rumored that he and Merlin are ambiguous, that their most casual conversations are deliberately misinterpreted by Mihailovich and the ship's doctor, Mehanden (who he professes to regard with extreme awe) .

After arousing some anger (because it all reminded him of his youthful feelings), Dr. Buddha didn't care about the jokes, but he didn't know how Merlin felt about it, and he hadn't had the courage so far to do it. ask her.Even in today's small group, where few secrets can be kept for more than six hours, she retains much of her famous delicacy, her enigmatic air that has captivated three generations of audiences. As for Willis, he had just discovered some details that could destroy the Rat and Spaceman Resettlement Program. Cosmos is equipped with the latest "Target 20" space suit, which has a non-cotton and non-refractive protective mask, which guarantees to provide users with a more realistic space landscape. Although the helmets have different sizes, Willis But can't use it because the head is too big.

Willis spent fifteen years perfecting his trademark (beard) (one critic once called it: "the glory of the art of deco pruning," perhaps out of admiration.) Now, only his beard stood between Willis and Halley, and soon Willis had to choose between Halley's comet and the beard.