Chapter 61 Hot Jupiter Changes Orbit

Galaxy X, the orbit of the fifth planet, the tiny scientific research ship melts into a black dot against the background of hot Jupiters, making it inconspicuous.

The slight disturbance brought by this strange guest a few days ago became the straw that broke the camel's back, and the small satellite orbiting this gas giant planet was in its final orbit.

The pull of gravity is about to cause it to collide with the gas giant planet, which can be called a spectacle that occurs once in millions of years.

When the news came back to Gudu, physicists in the scientific community were excited. Many people wanted to go to the scene to observe and record this fleeting collision event.

But only a few hundred people on the scientific research ship were lucky enough to witness everything, and the glorious end of the small celestial body.

Research ship...

Through the porthole on the side of the ship, Elsa quietly looked at the ferocious eye of the hot Jupiter storm, trying to imagine through the cold glass the violent liquid hydrogen raging through the atmosphere.

Suddenly another voice came from behind.

"It's very ferocious, isn't it? The empty universe is paired with a destructive storm." Science Officer Pace appeared in the corridor at some unknown time.

"Pace boat..."

Elsa turned around and was about to say hello, but before she could say her full title, Pace interrupted her.

"You don't need to call me captain, you are already a leader in your own right. We are on the same level."

"But I haven't disembarked yet, Captain Pace."

Perhaps it was because Pace was by her side that Aisha smiled easily. "It will take another month and a half for the Towel to pick me up. Before that, let me be my last assistant."

The Towel is the second regular scientific research ship in the empire, just like the Wanderer in Pace. As a new leader and scientific research ship captain, Elsa naturally has the right to name her own scientific research ship.

From ship construction, recruiting crew members to rendezvous with Elsa, the Towel will also embark on other galaxy exploration routes.

At that time, Aisha had to say goodbye to her colleagues and environment where she had lived for a year, and start a new one.

One and a half months is the final countdown.

Pace looked at the increasingly mature former subordinates, his long eyelashes fluttering and slightly drooping, and his sensibility stirred up his rationality. "Okay..."

Recalling the changes in Elsa during this period, the laughter of the once active girl had visibly decreased. She could feel that Elsa was trying to find ways to make herself more reliable, at least on the outside.

"You have suppressed a lot recently, but there is actually no need to suppress your talent." Pace said bluntly and pointedly.

"Talent...I don't have it."

Elsa was silent for a moment, then spoke in denial.

His eyes were erratic, and some dared not look directly into Pace's eyes.

"No, you do, you just lack the perspective of a bystander." After receiving the negative answer, Pace's cold eyes did not change at all.

"What do you think a qualified leader looks like?"

"Swordsman Tulan, Governor Kumo, Science Officer Menne, Science Officer Onuo, Science Officer Ghana, and Captain Pace, you are all perfect." Aisha finished reporting the leaders of civilization one by one, but she did not mention her own name.

Emerging leaders.

"I have no experience in being a leader. Only by humbly learning from successful people can I be worthy of this responsibility."

The disappearance of Karanka civilization made her understand that life is like a crunchy shark, which can be easily chewed.

They need to be cared for, and only in this way can their companions accompany her on the journey.

Moreover, if Karanka had not been discovered by chance, this promotion would not have existed. The merit itself was partially due to luck. Now that promotion has become an established fact, seizing the time to make yourself more mature and reliable is the right way.

"Optimism that is not constrained by the environment is your gift. Not everyone can maintain a positive attitude while sailing in the claustrophobic deep space for a long time."

Pace looked at her with scarlet pupils and spoke earnestly.

"Appearance of stability will not bring actual safety, but an optimistic heart can ease the team's mental state."

"This heart, only look at yourself, don't deny her."

The chest that rose and fell with his breathing was suppressed by the aggressive tone, as if a finger was circling around his heart.

Suddenly, the feeling of being dissected and looked at came to my mind.

Until the sound of footsteps clattering to the floor with magnets gradually faded away, Elsa stared at the gaseous planet again and thought in a daze.

The external image characteristics of several leaders flashed through my mind.

Tu Lan's majesty...Money's genius...Hono's courage...Gana's stability...Pace's rationality.

Everyone has his own characteristics.

What about myself...how to balance my abilities and characteristics.

My thoughts are entangled together, making it difficult to separate them.

The void outside the window responded to her question with cold silence.

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October 20, 2200.

A brilliant tail flame was drawn in the sky of the gaseous planet, and the largest satellite of the Alpha satellite group turned into a meteorite and fell near the south pole of the fifth planet.

At the point where the black scar hit, a hole the size of a star appeared in the atmosphere of the gaseous planet above.

The Rover has been waiting for a long time. Observation instruments from all directions are aimed at the final orbit of the satellite's demise. The star's hundreds of millions of years of history will eventually turn into a short but extremely bright explosion of light, and then be annihilated in the ocean of liquid hydrogen.

Even deep inside the planet, the impacts are still continuing, but they cannot be observed with the naked eye.

Countless physical data are pouring in from the instrument, and there are also chaotic and disorderly interference radio communications.

"Analyst, report the situation." Pace frowned, the sudden data seriously affected the crew's work.

Hearing this, a researcher below the main control room hurriedly called up the data and shouted loudly.

"It was the Alpha satellite that was ionized by the magnetosphere of the gaseous planet to produce a plasma sheet, which interfered with some of our instruments due to the 'throwing' of the motion and gravity of the two stars."

"Enable countermeasures, prioritize saving, and host intelligently compare, filter, and block."

"Yes!" After receiving the order, everyone started a new round of operations.

Under the shielding of the host, some of the originally disturbed data quickly returned to normal.

A small episode in the recording process is not easy to get over. The interference phenomenon will exist for at least several years. This may be the last stubbornness of the satellite.

Analyzed values ​​flashed across the screen, including deformed dipole magnetic fields, changes in the magnetosphere and Gaussian values, the proportions of elements in the upper atmosphere, changes in the troposphere and stratosphere after being squeezed by satellites...

"Elsa, what do you think about the possibility of hot Jupiters derailing?"

Amidst the operating sounds of the spaceship, Pace suddenly turned his head and asked.

"Hot Jupiter has changed its orbit..." A familiar gentle smile appeared on Elsa's face. "I think this question should be answered by Mr. Pace's deputy, my deputy, Xing."

After being promoted to the captain of the new research ship, her two original team members will naturally be promoted as well and serve as her right-hand men.

Xinglai is her deputy, and Bana is the deputy captain. Their positions are in line with their personalities.

"Huh?" When his name was called, Xing Lai pointed at himself, puzzled. "Why me."

"Because you are a genius." Aisha praised bluntly.

If I were to add labels to everyone present, I would be carefree, Captain Pace would be a wanderer, Bana would be meticulous, and then Xinglai would be a genius with a flash of inspiration.

"In that case, I won't be polite." Xing Lai put his hands on his hips and raised his head and laughed.

"Idiot." Bana next to her immediately covered her face and kicked her, cursing in a low voice.

Xing Lai patted his legs and glared at her with dissatisfaction. He calmed down his arrogance slightly and began to explain. "In my opinion, this hot Jupiter was probably once a cold Jupiter. It accumulated a large amount of cold gas on the periphery of the cold planetary system.

Migrate to a tighter inner orbit around the star."

"However, the theory of internal orbit migration of hot Jupiters cannot explain the excessive orbital migration speed of this hot Jupiter."

Pace shook her head, obviously this theory did not convince her.

As early as when calculating the planetary orbit model, the system added the variable of the inner orbit migration of superheated Jupiter, which she could not have known.

"Does the observed data support your theory?"

"No!"

"Then how are you sure that this anomaly still belongs to the category of inner orbit migration of hot Jupiters?"

"The reason is unknown, and there is no other more reasonable explanation anyway."

The old captain's rhetorical question did not faze Xing Lai. She still pinched her waist and confidently opened her mouth to explain.

"If you really want to ask the reason, it is the flash of inspiration when the spark of genius' thought collides with Jupiter."

"..."

Pace looked at Xinglai speechlessly, then turned to Aisha who was a little embarrassed.

"Okay then, send this guess back to Guduxing."

Elsa:???

Is it true that one dares to speak and the other dares to speak out, but how did the captain just ask for evidence? Although she also agreed with Xing Lai's point of view, was it a bit too hasty?

"It's not appropriate... we won't study it any more?"
To be continued...