Travel Photography Charter Raiders for Mars Camp in Qinghai Cold Lake

Qinghai Cold Lake Mars Camp is really a good place for many people to travel. Here you can feel very rich cultural charm and sci-fi elements, and the visual effects are superb, giving people an inexplicable inner fluctuation. Let's share specific strategies.

Mars camp is located under Oberliang, and there are no plants in Fiona Fang, which is hundreds of kilometers around Oberliang (except Lenghu and Dachaidan, Mangya and Mahai Village). Being in it is like reaching Mars, which is called the most unlike place on earth and the most like place on earth.

Lenghu-Aobaoliang-Shuiyadun area has more than 2,000 square kilometers, and the Ya Dan area connecting Dachaidan and Huatugou has a total area of more than 20,000 square kilometers. It also covers various Ya Dan forms of development, growth, maturity and decline, including Ya Dan in Gao Tai, Ya Dan in Shahai and Ya Dan, the only water in the world. It can be described as a Ya Dan museum.

The town of Mars Lenghu lies below O 'Brien.

Schematic diagram of Mars camp location

The predecessor of Mars Camp

Some people say that this place is the least like the earth, but the most like Mars on the earth-the remote and boundless Gobi Desert, the rugged Ya Dan landform and the most beautiful night sky. This is Lenghu Town, hundreds of kilometers away from Fiona Fang, and no one lives there. It used to be an important oil producing area in China. At its peak, more than100000 people lived here by oil exploitation.

Lenghu Desert City is located at the foot of Dangjinshan Mountain, about 10 km away from Lenghu Town. Located on the edge of S305 provincial highway.

With the exhaustion of oil resources in the 1980s, many production and living areas in Qinghai Oilfield were abandoned, and Lenghu gradually shrank into a small town with only over 800 residents. Nowadays, Cold Lake has begun to use its geological and geomorphological environment similar to Mars and high-quality night sky resources to create a "Mars town" integrating science popularization, science popularization and science fiction.

In just two years, Cold Lake has attracted scientific instruments from many astronomical research institutions and universities at home and abroad, established the Cold Lake Science Fiction Literature Award, and built a practical education camp for studying and traveling on Mars.

Geographical location and transportation of Mars camp

Lenghu Mars Town is located in the west of Haixi Prefecture, Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, on the northwest edge of Qaidam Basin. It borders Xinjiang and Gansu in the north. It is 60 kilometers west of Lenghu Town, and it takes about 1 hour by car via Mars No.1 Highway.

It is 270 kilometers away from Dunhuang Airport, and it takes about 4.5 hours by car via 2 15 National Highway and 305 Provincial Highway. 430 kilometers from Delingha Airport. After Dexiao Expressway and Liu Ge Expressway, it takes about 5 hours by car.

It is about 70 kilometers from Cold Lake to Mars Camp in Oberlian. This simple highway is named Mars No.1. In fact, most people still take the provincial highway S305, which is about 40 kilometers from Lenghu along S305, and there is a fork. Take Shashi Road for about 27 kilometers to Mars Camp. Because the Russian Liang Bo is in the development stage, the road was once blocked artificially, and now it can be accessed.

Geographical characteristics of Mars camp

Lenghu Town is located in the northern part of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and lives inland. The climate here is dry, rainy and windy, with large temperature difference between day and night and unclear seasons. It is a typical continental climate. The annual precipitation is 17.8 mm and the annual evaporation is 3 137.3 mm, which is an extremely arid area in China. The sunshine percentage exceeds 80%, which is the place with the most sunshine in Asia, with an average elevation of 2733 meters.

Environmental characteristics of Mars camp

The Mars camp is located under O 'Brien. There is the largest, most complete and typical Ya Dan landform in the world. Moreover, it is located in no man's land, the traffic is impassable, and the outside world knows very little. This magical area remains relatively intact in its original state. Being in it is like reaching Mars, which is called the most unlike place on earth and the most like place on earth.

From a purely landscape point of view, O 'Brien should be one of the best. 12 square kilometers of Oberlian Plateau stands on the vast and desolate Gobi in the southwest of Lenghu Lake, with a height difference of several hundred meters.

From lowland to high point, the landscape steps are distinct, followed by Gobi flat and circular Ya Dan, and the top layer is mostly weathered into columns, forming the peak cluster landscape in the late Ya Dan. Driving into the high platform of Oberlian, Ya Dan's countless towers, columns, castles, pyramids, long ridges and other shapes come into view, dazzling, just like entering a maze.

Under different lighting conditions, Ya Dan landform will reflect different light colors, or blue-gray, or warm yellow, or orange-red, which is a bit weird and chaotic in time and space. Especially with the coming of night, we camped in this barren land without plants, water and any living things. From a distance, the moonlight was bright and the Milky Way was all over the sky. Ya Dan, with different shapes, casts and stretches various shadows in the moonlight, gathering together like countless unknown giant creatures, giving people a great sense of depression-it's like being on a lonely planet at this time.

Mars camp coordinates

60 kilometers west of Lenghu Town, Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, is in the hinterland of Ya Dan, Aobaoliang, with a latitude of 38.27 15 north and a longitude of 93.0569 east, and the vast land around it 1 125 square kilometers.

Mars camp installations and facilities

The first Mars camp building includes five main areas: comprehensive building, sleeping quarters for men and women and bathroom areas for men and women.

Aerial view of Mars camp

The first floor area of the complex building is150m2, and the second floor area is120m2. There are dining area, coffee bar, activity center, office, kitchen and other facilities, which are the central area of the whole camp, and some of our courses and experiments will be held here.

Sleeper cabins are divided into male cabins and female cabins, which can accommodate 28 people and 56 people respectively.

The men's bathroom and the women's bathroom are separate cabins.

Tent area

Sleep shelter

corridor

Classroom cum dining room

Sleep shelter

night

Product introduction of Mars camp

First, the research products of Mars Camp are here. Campers can live in a space sleeping cabin, participate in experience projects such as Mars rescue, and taste the "Mars feast"-boiled potatoes, carrots, mutton and two pieces of lunch meat. Depending on the duration and the project, the cost of living on Mars here ranges from 1980 yuan to 19800 yuan.

Fees for two-day and one-night youth science popularization project 1980 yuan; The "Mars Survival" camp for three days and two nights can experience GPS positioning and Mars hiking. , the cost is 3600 yuan;

/kloc-The "Summer Camp for Mars Migration Engineers" with 0/0 day and 9 nights costs nearly 20,000 yuan, and the courses include the design of Mars biosphere and lander. Since the official opening of 1 camp in March this year, hundreds of "Martian residents" have been received here.

Second, the question-and-answer study on Mars. AQ: When can I participate in product research? Is it a year-round activity?

Answer: The above products are suitable for children in school from April to June and from September to June +0 1. Due to the cold weather, reception was suspended from February to March of the following year. For other winter and summer activities, please refer to the winter and summer product manual.

Q: What age group is it suitable for children?

A: Students aged 8- 15.

Q: Is there a signal in the camp?

A: The cell phone signal is intermittent, so you can talk, but you can't use WeChat or send pictures. In case of any accident, emergency contact can still be achieved.

Q: What is the altitude of the camp? Will there be a rebound?

A: The camp is 2,700 meters above sea level. Few people have altitude sickness.

Q: Is there any personal hygiene? Can I wash the clothes?

A:

The most precious thing in Gobi is water. The space capsule in the camp can be cleaned by individuals, but the capacity is limited and will not be used indefinitely. Gobi is dry and air-dried quickly, and clothes will not smell. It is recommended to bring enough clothes and change them when you come back.

Q: What is the teacher-student ratio in the camp?

A: We strictly follow the teacher-student ratio of 1:5~ 1:7 to arrange activities for each period, so as to fully ensure the safety and attention of each child.

Three. Product Features The main functions of Mars Camp are:

1. Organize theme cold, summer camp and research activities; 2. Hold a series of activities of "Starry Sky Mission".

Course features: The Mars Camp series of experience courses closely follow the goal of Mars immigration, covering practical skills such as GPS positioning, solar power generation, computer design and modeling, 3D printing, radio and outdoor survival. , covering mathematics, geography, physics, life sciences, chemistry and other disciplines, substituting scenarios into project-based learning methods to stimulate young people's interest in space science and technology, exploring the universe and exploring outer space.

4. What accommodation can Cold Lake Mars Town provide: Cold Lake Mars Town is 60 kilometers away from the camp and can provide the camp with logistics materials such as food and drinks needed for normal life. Camp tents, camp space capsules and other facilities can achieve the reception scale of dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people.

Activities: Stargazing, movie viewing, bonfire party, Gobi hiking, Mars theme course.

Safety: the camp is located in an empty area in no man's land, with a wide field of vision and no wild animals; In addition to the sleeping area, the space capsule in the camp is monitored by cameras 24 hours a day and manned 24 hours a day.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) Cold Lake Laboratory Introduction Cold Lake Laboratory is a STEM educational complex that enters Mars community, CBD and school. Covering an area of about 300 square meters, it integrates popular science books, popular science space and maker space to realize various functions such as display, sales and teaching.

The curriculum system of Cold Lake Laboratory aims at human migration to Mars in 2040, and is disassembled into life science, astrophysics, material science, computer engineering and other disciplines by project-based learning. It has distinctive features in the STEM curriculum system.

The curriculum system of Cold Lake Laboratory includes: teacher training, courseware (teacher's manual, student's manual) and information package. At present, there are more than 600 mature courseware.