The rise of nanometers

Moon.

The northwest part of the Imbrium in the northern hemisphere is the Rainbow Bay where the Guanghan Palace base is located.

At this time, the scale of Guanghan Palace Base has been greatly expanded compared to the beginning. Guanghan Palace Base currently has 24 space capsules of various sizes, forming three building complexes.

Namely: scientific research area, living area, and port area.

Among them, the port area is the farthest from the other two areas, about 4.5 kilometers away, and is mainly composed of ground radar cabins, maintenance cabins and fuel storage cabins.

The port has a flattened berth covering an area of ​​about 9 square kilometers, and there is also an experimental berthing area covered with composite boards, covering an area of ​​less than 300 square kilometers.

The living area is composed of 8 living cabins with different functions, which can accommodate 10 astronauts and live at the base for 6 to 12 months at the same time.

The last scientific research area is the area with the most cabins in Guanghan Palace Base, with a total of 13 scientific research experimental cabins with different functions.

In addition, there is an emergency spacecraft parked in the port area at this time, which can be launched at any time to the Toad Palace Space Station in lunar orbit.

There are currently six astronauts stationed at the Guanghan Palace base, including Cheng Cunwu, who previously came to the moon to do scientific research.

At this time, Cheng Cunwu was in the scientific research area. He and Yu Shengtian, another scientific astronaut, were busy with various electric field synthesis experiments.

As one of the necessary technologies for space strategy, electric field synthesis technology has received more and more attention. With nearly 10 billion yuan of continuous investment, the electric field synthesis technology on Blue Star has made great progress, and various derivative technologies are also advancing with each passing day.

Cheng Cunwu, who came to the moon, was not idle either. He and Yu Shengtian, together with Blue Star's experimental data, were also adjusting the electric field synthesis technology on the moon.

Experimental cabin-C2.

This experimental cabin is equipped with an 800-kilowatt electric field synthesis reactor and a set of ancillary supporting equipment.

As for the experimental cabin - C1, this experimental cabin is equipped with an electrolysis reactor that can electrolyze most substances.

Yu Shengtian poured more than 100 kilograms of lunar basalt powder into the reactor using a robotic arm and storage bucket.

Although the basalt of the moon and the basalt of the Blue Star are both basalts, there are big differences between them.

The surface of Hongwan contains abundant basalts, most of which are basalts poor in alkali metals and aluminum.

Through mass spectrometry, it can be seen that these basalt powders contain relatively high amounts of silica, calcium oxide, iron oxide, magnesium oxide and chromium.

The content of iron oxide is quite high. In Hongwan basalt, the average iron oxide content is about 17.36%, which is twice that of Blue Star basalt.

The content of metallic chromium is about 10 times that of Blue Star basalt.

He pressed the electrolysis switch, and a specific microwave heating system started instantly. It heated specific compounds through specific light waves, and then quickly decomposed the substances inside through electric fields and currents.

Soon, elemental iron, oxygen, etc. were decomposed one by one, and then stored in specific storage tanks.

Cheng Cunwu is in the experimental cabin - C2. He is currently synthesizing silicon nanolayers through an electric field. He has successfully synthesized foamed silicon steel.

As for the silicon nanolayer, which is the specialty of the Suiren system on Blue Star, it has crucial applications in building spacecraft and lunar bases.

Cheng Cunwu naturally hopes to replicate this material on the moon, which is very important for the rapid expansion of the lunar base in the future.

Under the combined action of the catalyst and the electric field, although the silicon nanolayer was formed quickly, compared with Blue Star's silicon nanocoating, this lunar silicon nanocoating was very uneven, resulting in a very weak overall structure. collapse.

He took out a piece of aluminum alloy from the reactor and put it into an electron microscope for observation. Cheng Cunwu saw the uneven silicon nano-coating on the surface, and even several coating gaps.

Obviously, the experiment failed this time. He frowned and thought about the experiment. He also used the base's large server to simulate the synthesis process, but he still couldn't find the problem.

Yu Shengtian walked in lightly and asked through the communication system built into the helmet: "Still no success?"

"Yes! Silicon nano-coating has never been successful. All kinds of metal sheets show dense defect structures, which cannot improve the strength at all." Cheng Cunwu was very distressed.

After thinking for a while, Yu Shengtian suggested: "Send the experimental data back to Blue Star and let Blue Star's supercomputer help calculate it. The base's server only has 800 billion floating point computing power per second, and there are only two of us."

"For today's plan, this is the only way."

The two of them restored all supplies and procedures to their previous positions according to the laboratory operating procedures, and disposed of all the reacted materials and residues.

Even a pen or a button must be reset according to regulations. This is a rigid rule to ensure safety.

It is this almost perverted regulation that ensures that fatal mistakes rarely occur in spacecraft, space stations and lunar bases.

After completing the reset work, the two of them finished their day's work and walked lightly towards the living area.

After several months of living on the moon, Cheng Cunwu gradually became accustomed to this low gravity. When they came to the transportation module in the scientific research area, the two of them entered an exoskeleton-type space suit.

When you enter the air-tight area, the air-tight gate at the back closes and the system begins to extract the air from the air-tight area.

[Permission to leave the cabin]

The hatch moved to the left, and there was light yellow lunar soil outside. There was a dirt road with dense footprints at the hatch, which extended to a hundred meters away, where was the living area.

Cheng Cunwu and Yu Shengtian walked out of the airtight cabin, and the exoskeleton armor walked towards the living area opposite. The reason why it was divided into two areas was mainly just in case.

After all, there may be dangers in the experimental area, and the moon may be hit by meteorites, so it is safer to separate the two areas.

After walking about seventy meters, they entered the transportation tube module under construction, a transportation module designed by Blue Star and made of local materials on the moon.

Usually the length of this traffic cabin is 20 meters, the outer diameter is 5.3 meters, and the inner diameter is 4.8 to 5.1 meters.

The foamed silicon steel successfully developed by Cheng Cunwu is the skeleton of this transportation cabin, and the silicon nano-coating, which has not been developed, is prepared to be used as the outer shell.

Finally, with the addition of some precision spare parts brought from Blue Star, about 96% of the materials for the transportation module can be supplied locally on the moon, thereby reducing the base's dependence on Blue Star.

At present, the skeleton of a traffic pipe cabin has been built, and the skeleton of the second traffic pipe cabin is also being laid quickly. Once Cheng Cunwu's silicon nano-coating process is completed, the shell can be produced in small batches.

Suddenly, Cheng Cunwu stopped and stared at a lonely cabin on the north side, which was the geological experiment cabin that had just been assembled a few days ago.

He could see the drill pipe of the geological experiment cabin rotating rapidly.

Entering the traffic airtight cabin in the living area, he saw Shi Keji walking over: "Keji, has the geological experiment cabin started working?"

Shi Keji nodded: "Yes! We started drilling at noon today. The thickness of the lunar soil here is not too deep. We drilled into the rock formation half an hour ago."

"How deep have you drilled now?"

"About 6.8 meters."

Cheng Cunwu looked at the analysis of the drilled materials and found that the thickness of the lunar soil in the lunar maria is not uniform, but has different thicknesses based on the time of formation and topography.

The thickness of the lunar soil near the base is approximately 4.7 meters, and is divided into six main soil layers.

The surface is a loose soil layer of about 20 centimeters, and below 20 centimeters, there is a solid layer of soil that has been compacted. It may be that frequent lunar earthquakes have caused the soil layer below to be compacted.

There are also some differences in the elemental composition of each layer of lunar soil.

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