Tomcat slowly climbed down the ladder and looked up to inspect the entire lander.
Looking upwards at a close distance, the Eagle looked like a white tower with smooth-flowing lines that stood above a desert. Mars did have an atmosphere; therefore, the engineers had added fairing when designing the lander. It wasn't naked like the Apollo's.
The sunlight on Mars practically added no warmth, but it made the twelve-meter-tall vessel appear milky-white. In fact, the Eagle's back was covered in organic silicon and PEEK composite materials. Such materials were translucent at close distance.
"Tomcat, how's it on your side?" Tang Yue asked. "I've just finished understanding what VLBI (Very-long-baseline interferometry) in same beam interferometry means."
"I'm checking the Descent Vehicle," Tomcat answered. The sunlight had cast a huge shadow of the lander onto it.
