Chapter 250 Exploration of Gas Planets

As the flagship, the Tianqin should be parked in the far orbit with the living spacecraft according to the usual management, but this time it is different. It leads a battleship squadron of 300 Lake-class warships, and arrives at the synchronous orbit of the rocky planet with the first batch of engineering spacecraft and scientific research spacecraft.

Human civilization is already a second-level civilization, but lake-class warships, engineering spacecraft, and scientific research spacecraft will not directly penetrate into the interior of the planet.

Because scientific research spacecraft are not small spacecraft, they are spacecraft as large as the Tianqin, but they are mainly various laboratories and scientific research institutions, so they are called scientific research spacecraft.

The same is true for engineering spacecraft.

Huge spacecraft are not suitable for direct landing because they are too large, large in size and mass. Once they fall into the gravity well of the planet, although they will not be unable to escape, it will be very difficult, and even structural damage will be caused by uneven gravity, which is completely unnecessary.

Large ships like the Tianqin will naturally not land.

They are only used as space platforms.

What landed are special landing craft and landing ships.

While the rocky planet was busy preparing for exploration and landing, the fleet far away on the gas planet also began to explore the gas planet.

A factory-type spacecraft and a scientific research spacecraft first arrived at the orbit of the gas planet, and then released a probe specially produced for the gas planet environment to the gas planet.

Now human probes are very different from those of the Earth era.

Although it is called a probe, it actually does not have a small wing-like solar panel, and its appearance is not as simple as an artificial satellite, but a small spacecraft.

"Dr. Niu, the parameters are all right. You can change the probe orbit and carry out the gas planet exploration mission." A staff member in the scientific research spacecraft was working seriously.

As he said, he picked up a thing in front of him that looked like a VR eye and covered his head.

This thing is a remote connection control system.

After wearing it, the staff's perspective will be switched to the probe camera, well. Or the camera becomes his eyes.

In this exploration mission, he is a manual observer.

The gas planet exploration mission is mainly to find traces of its satellite. Scientists speculate that if there are satellites and they all fall on gas planets, they should leave some traces on the inner core of the gas planets.

This trace is the material composition of the gas planet's core.

Scientists want to analyze the specific material composition of the gas planet's core through spectroscopy, neutrino detection and other detection methods, and then compare it with the material composition of the rocky planet.

If the similarity and overlap are very high, it is very likely caused by swallowing the satellite. Of course, there is another point that scientists speculate that if its satellite is really swallowed by it, because the rotation of this gas planet is originally very high, many swallowed materials are likely to still float in the atmosphere of the gas planet.

In this detection, scientists also want to confirm one point, they want to know whether the gas planet has a solid surface.

Such gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn are very common in the universe, but humans have never had time to detect their interiors, so scientists firmly believe that this detection will bring humans a lot of data on planetary evolution.

In the past, the main reason why gas planets are planets is that they are not big enough. Therefore, it can be seen that their composition is still mainly composed of hydrogen and helium.

But is its core also just these two elements?

After all, in the original theory, as long as the mass of the gas planet is larger, it is possible to ignite its core under the strong gravitational force, undergo thermonuclear reactions and become a star.

So, do gas planets have the qualifications of stars? Or do they have solid surfaces and rocky cores, and can only be planets.

This kind of research is of great significance to the evolution of star systems.

Because almost everyone knows that this generation of stars is basically the third generation. The emergence of this generation of stars is based on the material ejected by the demise of the previous generation of stars. So when the stars were first formed, why did hydrogen gather together to ignite and become stars, while heavy elements gathered in other places to become rocky planets?

Since it is a chaotic era, why can't heavy elements and hydrogen elements be mixed and gathered? What exactly did this process go through?

Another point is, will gas planets be the evolutionary result of the gathering of light and heavy elements?

As we all know, the reason for the supernova explosion at the end of the evolution of massive stars is that there are too many heavy elements in the core, which causes the nuclear fusion reaction to stop, and then it cannot maintain its own gravitational balance and collapses inward, and then violently collides in the material collapse at nearly the speed of light, and finally explodes with powerful energy due to the extreme collision, causing a supernova explosion.

So, if a large number of heavy elements are gathered at the gravitational convergence point at the beginning of the evolution of the star system, then will this star system not be able to be ignited directly to form a star for this reason, but will it skip this stage directly due to the large mass, and explode directly after the heavy elements collapse, and finally become a black hole?

In other words, do black holes of this cause exist?

If it exists, what is the difference between it and the black hole formed after the supernova explosion of a supermassive star at the end? Is it a primordial black hole? Or a second-generation black hole? A third-generation black hole? Is its infinity point a singularity? Or a strange ring? Where is its solid surface?

All these questions may be answered in this exploration mission of the inner core of the gas planet.

With the answers to these questions, the human model of cosmic evolution will inevitably be supplemented, and many previously blank blocks will be filled.

The so-called quantitative change leads to qualitative change, and these things are the quantitative accumulation of human progress. We all know that scientific branches and various technologies are actually related, and if a civilization wants to move to a higher level, it is best for all branches of science to advance in parallel.

Because it is likely that a certain originally inconspicuous branch of science will prompt humans to discover the symbolic technology of a higher level of civilization.

Under the remote control of humans, the exploration spacecraft first crossed the strong magnetic field radiation zone of the gas planet and came to the outermost gas layer of Jupiter.

At this time, the exploration spacecraft adjusted its attitude, facing down, and began to use thrusters to resist the strong gravity of the gas planet and slow down the falling speed.

If humans collected hydrogen and helium elements from gas planets in the past, they basically worked at this layer. Basically, they started to collect here, and then used powerful engines to escape the gravity of the gas planet and finally completed the resource collection.

But this time it was an exploration, so after reaching this level, the exploration spacecraft did not stop at all and continued to sink.