From NASA's decision to test, 24 days passed unknowingly, when the launch vehicle of Florida Space City took off on July 13.

During this period.

Yao Guoxian's team had already arranged 17 simple strongholds on the border of the Rain Sea and various important places, and had a week off in the middle.

At this time, they were building the 18th simple stronghold in the Yuhai District in the Moon Sea Plain near the Aristak Crater.

There are also three space capsules and one stronghold.

This wealthy and powerful behavior made the powerless Xizhou Space Administration and NASA, which were fighting small, feel envious and jealous.

After all, NASA has established a base of Outpost 2, with only 15 space capsules in total, and it has been slowing down for eight months.

As for the West China Space Administration, it is even more shabby. There are only three space capsules at the Alpine base and no astronauts have arrived yet.

In more than a month, hundreds of space capsules were arranged on the front of the moon, forming 34 simple strongholds.

In addition, Mendeleev City on the back of the moon is also expanding rapidly, and this expansion speed really makes the opponent unable to sleep or eat.

More than twenty days have passed, and the sea of ​​rain is shrouded in the darkness.

Occasionally, the moon dust that aroused due to static electricity showed obvious traces under the illumination of the spacecraft searchlight.

Li Zhen moved out a space capsule shell from the spacecraft cargo compartment, and at this moment, an alarm sounded from the communication system.

[Please note, please note that after the Lunar Weather Bureau's detection and analysis, a local meteor shower will appear in two hours. The area where the meteor shower may fall is roughly between the southern part of the Cloud Sea and the northern part of the Storm Ocean. Astronauts working in this area should enter the bunker in time...]

[Repeat...]

Li Zhen was startled, and Yao Guoxian, who was not far away, immediately reacted: "Dabin, Azhen, return to the spacecraft immediately."

"receive."

“Arrival now.”

Li Zhen, Wang Dabin, and Yao Guoxian threw the uninstalled parts outside, and then quickly entered the spacecraft.

Although they do not think that being hit by a meteorite will appear on themselves, astronauts have special codes of work and regulations.

For example, when encountering a solar storm with an intensity of more than 9, no matter where the moon is located, as long as it is in an open air environment, it is necessary to find the cover as soon as possible.

The kind of tricks in the movies are basically impossible to appear on them. This is the professional quality of a professional astronaut. If you can't even do this, the Space Administration will probably not allow them to become astronauts.

After entering the spacecraft, Yao Guoxian immediately opened the spacecraft's computer system and found the specific data of the meteor shower.

Generally speaking, the probability of an asteroid attack on the front of the moon is lower than the back of the moon. In addition, the probability of large asteroids appearing is also relatively small.

Asteroids that require early warning from the Moon Weather Astronomical Administration usually have meteorites with a diameter of more than 0.2 meters, or cluster meteorite rain.

Obviously, the meteorite rain that attacked two hours later was a clustered meteorite rain.

According to detailed monitoring data, there are a lot of meteorites, including 382 meteorites with a diameter of more than 2 cm.

Among them, there are 16 meteorites with a diameter of more than 0.5 meters.

The reason for cluster meteorite rains is usually because two relatively large meteorites collide with each other in orbit.

The cause of this meteorite rain in front of me is that two relatively large meteorites collided with each other and then broke into hundreds of pieces.

If this meteorite rain of this kind of diameter level appears on the Blue Star, it will probably become a real meteor shower and will not pose any serious threat to the level.

However, the target of this meteorite rain is the moon without an atmosphere, and the mass of the meteorite will not be exhausted by the atmosphere due to friction and heat generation.

Even if the federal material technology is relatively powerful, exoskeleton armored spacesuits are not omnipotent, and if they are materials, they have limits.

Meteorites with a diameter of more than 0.2 meters, especially iron-nickel meteorites, if fast enough, can severely damage the protective layer of exoskeleton armor.

Yao Guo first looked at the monitoring data and found that the flight speed of this meteorite rain was enough to threaten the exoskeleton armor.

When the outer shell of the spacecraft can withstand or buffer some of the kinetic energy, it is the safest solution now to stay honestly inside the spacecraft.

It just so happened that everyone took the opportunity to take a break.

Of course, even if they were resting inside the spacecraft, they did not take off their exoskeleton armor. After all, meteorites with a diameter of more than 0.5 meters may smash through the spacecraft's shell.

Although the probability of a meteorite hitting the spacecraft and then joining the astronauts is very small, the possibility is almost zero.

But many times, probability is unreliable. Once a person becomes unlucky, anything can happen.

Two hours passed in a flash.

At this time, more than 300 meteorites hit the moon's surface in the southern part of the Rain Sea, the northern part of the Storm Ocean, and the Copernicus Crater.

In the sub-vacuum near-Earth area of ​​the moon, there was no roar of meteorite impact, and a few glimmers flashed by.

However, among the various bases and simple strongholds of the moon, the moon zone with a tailwind ear monitor is arranged, which accurately locks the location where each meteorite falls.

One of the meteorites with a diameter of 0.31 meters fell southwest of the location of Yao Guoxian's team, less than 11 kilometers away.

Even Yao Guoxian and others felt the obvious vibrations caused by that obvious impact.

Eight minutes later, as the last meteorite fell, the meteorite rain passed without any danger.

Suddenly, a latest information popped up on the spacecraft communication system:

[Article Yao Guoxian's team to send personnel to the impact location of the nearest KG225.0083 meteorite to recover the remains of the meteorite.]

[receive.]

Yao Guoxiang turned his head and ordered, "Azhen, you can go there."

"no problem."

Li Zhen nodded, then drove a light electric vehicle to the southwest direction 11.23 kilometers away, preparing to recover the meteorite wreckage.

Although there are many ancient meteorite impact craters (craters) on the moon, these freshly released craters and meteorite remains still have some scientific research value.

On the other side.

Outpost 2 base.

Phillips was digging sand and suddenly saw a glimmer of light passing through the northern air, and then a slight vibration came.

He hurriedly turned on the communication system: "David, something fell down the north just now?"

After a while, David in the base finally used satellite detection data and earthquake detectors installed on the base to know that a few minutes ago, a relatively large meteorite fell into the Moon Sea Plain about 37 kilometers north of their base.

Da picked up the communicator: "It's okay, it's a meteorite falling to the north."

"I see."

However, more than 20 minutes later, Houston Space City also learned about the news and issued a new order to Outpost 2.

Baru, who had just returned from the outpost base 1, was sent out as soon as he came back.

NASA ordered them to collect data about the meteorite and the crater. Baru could only drive an electric car and head north carefully.

Since it was during the moonlit night, the surface of the Storm Ocean was basically unable to see his five fingers.
Chapter completed!