Chapter 446 Planetary Transformation Direction
Planet II's space base begins to extract atmospheric conversion resources after entering orbit. This process is of course also a preliminary inspection process.
The space base will slowly tilt the orbit, and cooperate with the planet's rotational movement to spiral the entire planet to approximate the trajectory of the Earth's International Space Station.
With the high-power equipment of the space base and the orbital height of only 200 meters, the reconnaissance and mapping effects are far superior to ordinary remote sensing surveying and mapping satellites.
Coupled with the ground equipment released, the atmospheric composition of Planet II was quickly accurately measured, which was not much different from the previous estimates.
Two days later, the space base completed its first global scan, and the surface profile of Planet II was also integrated at the same time.
Xu Xingchen came to the report hall of the scientific research center again, and viewed the three-dimensional overall image of Planet 2 through a large three-dimensional projection in the middle of the hall.
Yuanwang No. 1 stood beside him to operate the projection, and at the same time introduced and explained to Xu Xingchen:
"The total surface area of Planet II is 50% greater than that of Earth, but Planet II has a larger ocean area, accounting for about 80% of the total area, which is much higher than that of Earth.
"Finally, the total land area of the planet 2 is basically the same as that of the Earth.
"And these lands are not as concentrated as the Earth. A single continent does not have a particularly large area. The largest continent is only roughly the same as South American states."
Xu Xingchen listened to the explanation of Yuanwang 1, reached out and touched the projection in front of him, rotated the image of the planet 2 in the projection, and looked at the distribution of sea and land around the world.
There are nine medium continents in total, sparsely distributed around the world, and the land is relatively uniform in shape, all tending to be round and oval:
"Sister Yuanwang, why are these lands so scattered? And the shapes... are all so close? They are all chubby?"
Yuanwang No. 1 smiled and explained:
"About the problem of land formation on the surface of Planet II, our current analysis and speculation mainly have two main problems.
"First of all, it is the basis for land formation. These lands are likely not directly formed by land-making movements. They were originally and may be the platform and shallows under the ocean.
"Planet II's former water area is likely to be larger than it is now, and it may even be a 100% ocean planet completely encased in water.
"But the temperature on the planet's surface is too high, the water on the surface evaporates too violently, and the atmosphere is in a supersaturated state for a long time.
"The density of water vapor in the air is too high, hundreds or even nearly a thousand times that of the earth, so that they squeeze and pass through layers of atmosphere and come to the upper layer of the atmosphere.
"With the sun's wind blowing, these water vapors, together with other gases, are constantly escaping from Planet 2.
"In this way, the water bodies are getting smaller and smaller, and a large number of underwater beaches, terraces, and ridges are slowly exposed to the water, becoming the land we see now."
Xu Xingchen was amazed at first, and then asked in confusion:
"Sister Yuanwang, isn't this right? When the water vapor is cold, it condenses into rain clouds, and then turns into rainfall? How can they pass through the low-temperature areas in the atmosphere?"
Yuanwang No. 1 also sighed slightly and said:
"I originally thought so, but that was obviously Earth's experience, according to Earth's standards, and Planet II was obviously abnormal.
"The density of its atmosphere is much higher than that of the Earth, and its temperature is much higher than that of the Earth, while its own density is lower than that of the Earth, and its surface gravity is lower than that of the Earth.
"Maybe for this reason, its atmosphere is not as obviously layered as the Earth, and its excessive water vapor concentration has caused water vapor to dissipate.
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"It is a guess that the large amount of water vapor dissipates, which leads to a drop in sea level, but the situation where water vapor is escaping is an observation result, and we are also analyzing the reasons for the escape."
Xu Xingchen nodded in surprise:
"Okay, the universe... is really magical... By the way, Sister Yuanwang, you tell me two reasons, what is the other one?"
Far-watching No. 1 enlarges the planet's picture in front of him, finds a nearly round land, enlarges the picture of the land again, and points to the gully above and says:
"The second reason is soil erosion. There is no organism on the surface of Planet II, which means there is no plant to fix the soil and water.
"All lands on the entire planet have been subjected to alternating attacks from high temperatures and storms over the past hundreds of millions, and the rate of soil erosion exceeds that of the Earth.
"The problem of soil erosion is very troublesome on the earth, but the situation here is different.
"Because there are no plants to fix the soil and water here, and no animals and humans need the environment here, soil erosion will not affect the life of any living creatures.
"As the saying goes, things will turn back. In the past hundreds of millions of years, the land exposed to the water has been collapsed and shattered, and then washed away by rain and flowed to the beach.
"The massive amount of mud and sand has piled up terrifying impact plains in coastal areas. At the same time, the land area continues to expand, and the trimming is becoming more and more circular or oval.
"What we see now is that most of the land areas on the entire planet are basically terrain similar to alluvial plains.
"And due to the long-term continuous high-intensity rainfall, the rivers and lakes on these plains are very dense, and freshwater resources are extremely abundant.
"On the entire planet, there are only some completely bald hills in the middle of those large lands, but they are also on the edge of collapse and shattering.
"The only drawback is that a planet without biological life will be relatively poor in soil, and only places that are supplied with volcanic ash will be slightly more fertile."
Xu Xingchen was stunned again, and carefully looked at the enlarged land scene of Far-Wang No. 1. Most of the areas on the oval land were like the Loess Plateau...
It should be said that it is the "Loess Plain" that is approximately the Loess Plateau inside, and is surrounded by continuous heavy rainfall and water flow, which collapses and levels down.
Moreover, the plateau and plains are crisscrossed by rivers and are scattered with Hubo, so there will be no drought on the Loess Plateau at all.
Looking at Xu Xingchen's stunning look, Yuanwang No. 1 continued to tell some simple ideas:
"The current situation on this planet is impossible for humans to survive. Polar areas are like saunas, and people can be steamed in temperate areas. Tropical areas are really pressure cookers.
"We want to transform the planet in an environmental way, and the primary goal is to cool down, then structure vegetation, build a biosphere, and create oxygen.
"And these goals can be considered interoperable to some extent.
"Nitrogen in the planet's atmosphere can be collected and converted into waste materials to grow plants. Plants will absorb carbon dioxide from the air and produce oxygen.
"Reducing nitrogen reduces air concentration and reducing carbon dioxide can reduce greenhouse effects, create oxygen for human breathing, and also assist in reducing temperatures.
"These are technically not difficult. Although they require a lot of equipment, the workflow is very simple and fixed, and we can use fully automated equipment.
"All resource consumption can be collected directly locally, and different air components can be collected according to the situation and coordinated with the working rhythm of other automation equipment."
Xu Xingchen nodded immediately after hearing this:
Chapter completed!