As soon as the weather weapons began to operate, Xia Country's aerospace department launched the live broadcast program.
A global live broadcast of the entire process of planetary terraforming.
Two broadcast halls jointly broadcast the terraforming of the moon on the left and that of Mars on the right, with experts providing live commentary.
Similar to live football commentary.
Thus, over the next few years, those two planets, under the gaze of the entire world, gradually transformed from barren, lifeless ordinary planets towards habitable worlds.
And the one that transformed faster was surprisingly the larger Mars.
In response, relevant experts explained during the live broadcast: "I believe everyone can now clearly see that the outer atmosphere of Mars has initially formed, while there is nothing yet on the moon.
This fully proves that the difficulty of planetary terraforming is not determined by the planet's size, but by its environmental characteristics. According to current theoretical calculations, Mars did have life billions of years ago.
Even an atmosphere had once formed.
It was later destroyed.
So, in essence, Mars is a living planet that is dead, or rather, not completely dead. Terraforming it now is like bringing it back to life.
Furthermore, because Mars once possessed many characteristics of a living planet, the current terraforming process using weather weapons is essentially a restoration. It may still possess some 'memory,' which is why the overall progress appears faster than that of the moon.
However, the moon has never had life. It cannot be considered a living planet at all. It is just a most ordinary, barren planet, and its size is also small. Terraforming this type of planet is not like bringing it back to life, but like Nuwa creating humans from scratch.
It requires creating from the very beginning. Therefore, it is normal for it to be more difficult and slower now.
It is even possible that it could fail."
Because the difficulty of terraforming the moon was beyond imagination, relevant experts, upon receiving instructions, immediately used the explanation of Mars's smooth terraforming as an opportunity to mentally prepare everyone, lowering their expectations for the moon's successful terraforming. This way, any failure would be easier to accept.
However, fortunately,
Six months after Mars's atmosphere officially appeared, the lunar periphery finally showed the nascent form of an atmosphere. Once the basic form appeared, the subsequent formation of the atmosphere and the regulation of internal climate would be a natural progression.
At this stage, it could already be officially announced that the terraforming of both planets was successful.
However, neither Ding Yun nor Xia Country were in a hurry, so they naturally did not rush to announce success, but continued to broadcast the terraforming process of both planets daily.
Taking Mars as an example,
Under the influence of the weather weapons, it had not stopped raining on Mars since the atmosphere formed.
Large amounts of hydrogen and oxygen elements were extracted from the surroundings by the weather weapons, converted into rainwater, and then, protected by the atmosphere, did not evaporate quickly, allowing them to remain on the Martian surface and converge into rivers.
This rain, which bathed the entire planet, was tens of times greater than that during the ancient myth of Nuwa mending the sky, and it continued for over two years, finally filling some of the depressions on the Martian surface to form rivers and lakes.
The source of life was initially born.
Next came the sowing of algae. Through the algae, the oxygen and carbon dioxide content on the planet's surface was regulated. Once the Martian environment was roughly suitable for some plants, animals, insects, and even bacteria or fungi that could adapt to extreme environments,
The second sowing of various life seeds commenced.
Soon, Mars entered a period of species explosion.
However, a species explosion did not mean Ding Yun would let them proliferate freely. Throughout the entire process, Ding Yun continuously monitored the entire planet using the weather weapons, not to monitor the species, but to monitor the planetary environment and constantly make adjustments as needed.
This was to gradually bring the Martian environment closer to Earth's environment, closer to a human-habitable environment.
These adjustments included, but were not limited to, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. As for the lives lost in the process, it was of no consequence, because those lives were meant to regulate and balance the surface ecological environment of Mars.
Another ten years passed before Ding Yun finally managed to transform the Martian environment to a state suitable for human habitation. However, because this was achieved through Ding Yun's accelerated growth method, the entire Martian ecosystem was extremely fragile, far less stable than one that evolved naturally.
To describe it, the stable ecosystem on the home planet that evolved naturally began to collapse after thousands of years of human effort. If the intensity of human activities in the last hundred years were to be replicated on Mars, the Martian ecosystem would completely collapse within three years at most.
Therefore, Ding Yun ultimately defined Mars as an agricultural planet, meaning only tourism and cultivation would be allowed.
No industrial development would be permitted.
Only in this way could its ecological stability be ensured.
And not be destroyed.
The lunar ecosystem was even less stable, so Ding Yun could only define it as a breeding planet, responsible for cultivating superior varieties and utilizing the relatively strong cosmic radiation nearby to induce seed mutations, and so on.
Immigration was also possible, of course.
But it could not be full immigration.
For example, Mars could only accommodate a maximum of 100 million people; any more would overwhelm its environment and ecosystem.
In this regard, the moon performed even worse.
It could only accept one million immigrants.
But regardless, the plan was successful, and humanity indeed gained two new habitats. The next step, of course, was to quickly move all the weather weapons from the periphery of Mars and the moon to the vicinity of the home planet, using the weather weapons to appropriately modify and repair the home planet's environment.
With the success of the previous two cases,
Everyone was quite expectant.
Ding Yun did not disappoint, and after another six years of continuous operation of the weather weapons, the general environment and ecosystem of the home planet were largely restored. Various extreme weather events and natural disasters were mostly eliminated.
During this process, Ding Yun had already accumulated enough influence and successfully engraved her mark on the world's origin. However, she had not yet completed the mission of transforming the home planet that she had promised.
So she stayed behind to continue terraforming the planet until the home planet was also successfully transformed.
Nutrient solutions completely withdrew from the market.
All kinds of Shen Nong pots were collected into the national treasury.
Humans once again ate natural food.
Only then did Ding Yun successfully complete her mission, leave her assets to her parents, fake her death, and withdraw.
Many years later, her legend still remained in this world, and she was hailed as the chief helmsman of the Great Cosmic Voyage and the foremost influential figure of the interstellar era.
Her position was unshakeable.