Wenfeng is one of the members of the planting team at the Guanghan Palace base.
On July 19, I slept in a room equipped with an Earth-like environment simulation device developed by Zhennan and woke up naturally at 7:00 Beijing time on Earth.
Wenfeng rubbed his eyes, put on his home clothes, and turned on the LCD TV with the remote control.
Yes, through four-stage relay communication satellite relay, the base can currently watch live broadcasts of the earth and TV channels without any delay.
Wenfeng has loved watching the Phoenix TV satellite channel programs broadcast in the mainland since he was a child. Now it is broadcasting the daily "Global Hotspot Morning News", and the picture happens to be a sci-fi picture of the base automatically unfolding and intersecting.
Yesterday, the entire four-story base, totaling 2,400 square meters, took 6.5 hours to lay out, and then each group moved and installed the equipment in their own experimental area and living area.
After another four hours of hard work, the first meal for all the personnel at the base yesterday was the Earth self-heating pot food brought from hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.
The air generator and water circulation generator have been put into operation after the environmental simulation equipment, and they simultaneously produce oxygen for human breathing and the water needed.
Whether Wenfeng and his friends can eat fresh vegetables sooner depends on their agricultural experimental group.
They brought 10 tons of black soil that was re-exported by the Ermao family. As for converting lunar dust into arable land, this requires large-scale experiments after producing various vegetables, fruits and melons using Earth soil, and reagents must be used to transform lunar dust.
Most of the crops are cultivated without soil, which has been widely used on the earth.
Today, Wenfeng and the planting team were divided into two groups. One group is the soilless cultivation group, and the other group is the black soil planting group, and they will work simultaneously.
Wenfeng and his team took three days to complete the preliminary planting work. So, except for observer Luo Zhi, the rest of the planting team went to help the industrial production team continue installing solar panels.
Although there are helium-3 fusion energy devices, Chinese people have an innate sense of urgency whether they are in easy times or in hard times, so there is absolutely nothing wrong with collecting more energy and storing it.
The solar panels were installed outside the base. Because it was a vacuum environment, everyone worked in outer space suits like rabbits, hopping around like rabbits to carry and install things.
We have to go back to the cabin every three hours to change into outdoor work clothes, otherwise we will suffocate to death.
I only have one round of external warehouse service work every day, which takes about 6 hours a day.
The rest of the time they work in the cabin, and people from the industrial team have already started driving lunar mining carts to mine in the mines outside, and then use small smelting equipment to extract the required metals.
The first time they brought three sets of 3D metal printing equipment, which are the most advanced metal printing equipment in the world.
Other mechanical parts needed by the main production base, this is considered the lunar experimental factory.
On the 8th day, it was Wenfeng's turn to look after the planting experimental area. He first sprayed nutrient solution on the soilless-cultivated Shanghai green, and then observed the crops planted in black soil.
It will take a week for the bok choy to eat its first vegetable, and of course you can also eat water spinach.
They can finally eat fresh vegetables. On this desert-like planet, seeing a touch of green really makes a difference in one's mood.
Wenfeng once again smelled the scent of damp earth in his sleep. This was the fixed program of the earth-like environment simulation system designed by Zhennan at five in the morning.
As the artificial sky above the dome gradually turned pale, his biological clock had already adjusted to a circadian rhythm synchronized with the Earth. His eyelashes fluttered as he peered through the observation window of his sleeping cabin, catching sight of the Earth suspended on a black velvet curtain, like a brooch inlaid with turquoise glass.
"Today's cabin temperature is 22°C, humidity is 65%, and oxygen concentration is 21.3%." The mechanical female voice of the smart butler and the ding-dong sound of the nutrient solution dropper sounded at the same time.
When Wenfeng turned over, the magnetic buckle of the sleeping bag automatically unfastened, and the feeling of weightlessness was perfectly offset by the simulated gravity device under the floor.
He reached out and touched the home clothes hanging on the bulkhead. The fabric still retained a faint smell of humus from moving the black soil yesterday.
The moment the LCD TV lit up, Phoenix TV's iconic orange-red logo bloomed in the center of the screen.
Wang Lu, the base's communications director, specially adjusted the satellite reception angle, and at this moment the screen was replaying the development process of the Guanghan Palace base yesterday.
Wenfeng watched the four-layer cabin on TV stretching out like a mechanical lotus, and couldn't help but think of the precise dance that lasted for six and a half hours three days ago - the hydraulic pillars of the underground root layer first pierced the lunar soil, followed by the silver solar film of the equipment layer spreading like butterfly wings, and the transparent dome of the experimental cabin splashed fine lunar dust when it unfolded, like crystal fireworks in slow motion.
"Dear viewers, what we are seeing now is the first self-expanding lunar base in human history..." The host's clear voice was interrupted by the sound of footsteps coming from the corridor.
Planting team leader Lin Banxia leaned in halfway, her elbows still stained with black soil from Harbin. "Xiao Wen, there's some lumps in the black soil experimental area. Can you come over and give me a hand?"
In the soilless cultivation chamber, three hundred vertical planting racks are carrying out the dawn irrigation program.
The roots of the bok choy are soaked in circulating nutrient solution, the vines of the water spinach climb along the carbon fiber grid, and the intelligent drip irrigation system plays a waltz of water droplets every fifteen minutes.
As Wen Feng passed by, a young leaf gently brushed against the vital signs monitoring ring on his wrist, and the sensor immediately popped up the chlorophyll content data on the tablet.
The real challenge lies in the black soil chamber next door. Ten tons of black soil, transported from the Dnieper Plain, is divided into thirty pressurized cultivation chambers. The topsoil is now forming a strange honeycomb structure in the low-gravity environment.
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