There are four seasons on Mars, and the temperature difference between day and night is also very large. It is winter in the northern hemisphere where Olympus Mons is located. The real-time temperature at the foot of the mountain is minus 68.9℃, which is comparable to the North Pole during the polar night on Earth.
Fortunately, Xia Yu has an extravehicular suit that can maintain oxygen, pressure, temperature and humidity for 72 hours continuously, isolating him from all damage including radiation and dust.
Lying comfortably on the air mattress, Xia Yu opened the small window on the tent and enjoyed the beautiful scenery outside.
Only a wealthy man like him can come to Mars for vacation and enjoy this relaxing and wonderful moment.
It would be nice if there were more people. This is a double bed. If one person sleeps alone, they can only roll around but not fight.
Time passed quietly, and the dim sky outside gradually turned blue, indicating that the sun was about to set.
A day on Mars is 24 hours and 37 minutes, less than an hour longer than a day on Earth. Xia Yu adapted quickly.
Taking out his camera again, he planned to use the lens to record the sunset on Mars. Because Mars is farther away from the sun than the earth, the sunset in the sky will be smaller, but the same sun will slowly sink below the horizon from the west.
Xia Yu pressed the shutter, capturing the last ray of light, and then the entire sky fell into darkness.
Compared with the sunset, the night sky of Mars is actually more exciting. As long as there is no sandstorm, the thin atmosphere will make the starry sky within reach. Xia Yu, who was well prepared, took out the tripod from the space. He wanted to take time-lapse photography at night.
After adjusting the angle, my stomach started growling.
According to the time on Earth, this should be lunch, so Xia Yu returned to the landing shuttle to prepare to eat.
Now the temperature outside has dropped to minus 100℃. The food in the space will turn into ice blocks if you take it out, not to mention that 95% of the carbon dioxide will cause suffocation if you open your mouth. It’s better to eat in the car!
The first meal on Mars was spicy mutton offal, stir-fried squid, scrambled eggs with leeks, stir-fried vegetables with gluten, and a bowl of old duck soup. It was a relatively simple meal with four dishes and one soup.
After eating and drinking, all the things were put away and Xia Yu sat on a chair playing with his mobile phone.
There is a mother ship in low-Earth orbit acting as a relay station. He has internet access here and the signal quality is very high, so there will be no possibility of loss of connection.
This is very comfortable. Looking at the string of bubbles accumulated on WeChat, Xia Yu replied one by one. The people chatting with him would definitely not guess where he is now.
"Old Xia, my Senna was just delivered. When can I go racing?"
He Jiawen sent a photo, in which he was wearing sunglasses and leaning against the car body, looking as flashy as he could be.
"Then I'll drive the Divo over then?"
Xia Yu replied that in fact, he would get the same effect if he drove an old Veyron.
"No, absolutely not!"
He Jiawen immediately pleaded.
Eight cylinders versus sixteen cylinders, there is no shame in admitting defeat. He was a little bit proud of buying a new car, but Senna was no match for the real boss.
"Just kidding, I'm not in the country right now. I'll race you in a McLaren F1GTR when I get back."
To use McLaren to defeat McLaren, Xia Yu prefers competitions within the same brand. With such a diverse collection of cars, he also has the conditions.
"Okay, then you set the time. I'm going to pick up my wife."
It’s different after getting married. You either pick up your wife or send her off. A man can’t just revolve around a woman.
Xia Yu felt that he would never be like this in the future, and it would be better if his wife came to pick him up.
He turned off his phone screen, put on his extravehicular suit again, and came to the outside of the landing shuttle again. The bright starlight was sprinkled on Mars, and the sky was dotted with two moons, one bright and one dark.
They are Phobos and Deimos, two satellites of Mars. They have very irregular shapes and may be fragments formed by an asteroid hitting Mars.
Xia Yu took out a folding chair made of aerospace-grade aluminum alloy from the space and started a campfire with solid fuel, which gave him the feeling of camping.
The fuel mixed with oxidizer burned fiercely, releasing a large amount of light and heat. Even with the barrier of the extravehicular suit, Xia Yu felt very warm in his heart.
Fire is the origin of human civilization. Fire means safety. After all, the fear of fire is engraved in the genes of wild animals and has not changed for billions of years.
Mars has nothing to do with fire, and there are no wild beasts, but after Xia Yu set foot on it, a new flame ignited.
Fortunately, Mars is very far away from the Earth at this moment, and there is no moving Mars rover nearby, otherwise he would definitely be in the big news, and the title would be directly "The Man from Mars".
What nonsense! He is obviously a native Earther. How could he be a country bumpkin from Mars?
After roasting the fire for a while, Xia Yu, feeling lonely, crawled into the tent and prepared to sleep.
The interior space of the landing shuttle is arranged for one person. It is okay to sit on the chair to eat and take a nap, but if you want to have a good rest, you have to sleep outside.
Lying on the air mattress, Xia Yu took out the laser welding gun from the space and stuffed it under the pillow.
If there really were Martians, he would make them regret coming into the world.
Xia Yu had watched "Star Wars" several times before coming here, and was just thinking about trying out the effect of combining Jedi swordsmanship with a knock-off lightsaber.
With this thought in mind, Xia Yu quickly fell asleep, and it was two hours later when he opened his eyes again.
A two-hour nap was already a long time. He hadn't been able to adjust to the time difference, so his meal and rest times still followed the Earth's. Now it was time for him to set off.
Climbing a 20,000-meter-high mountain is not something that can be done in one day. Xia Yu once climbed Mount Tai when he was a freshman. At that time, he always went up at night and stood on the top of the mountain to watch the sunrise. The scenery was very beautiful and he felt a sense of accomplishment.
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