Posted on 12/07/2021 4:36:30 AM PST by blam
A Chinese rover traversing the Von Kármán crater on the far side of the Moon (the portion that faces away from Earth) has stumbled upon a “mystery hut,” according to Space.com, citing a report published by Our Space, a Chinese language science outreach channel affiliated with the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Yutu 2 spotted the strange cube-shaped object about 262 feet away to the north. A zoomed-in image provides a closer view of the object.
The Chinese have called the cube-shaped object the “mystery hut.” The rover will take 2-3 lunar days (2-3 Earth months) to arrive at the object.
Ah. We have an update from Yutu-2 on the lunar far side, including an image of a cubic shape on the northern horizon ~80m away from the rover in Von Kármán crater. Referred to as “神秘小屋” (“mystery house”), the next 2-3 lunar days will be spent getting closer to check it out. pic.twitter.com/LWPZoWN05I
— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) December 3, 2021
CNSA has shown strong interest in investigating this mystery object. There’s no definitive answer of what it could be. Some have speculated it’s a boulder from a meteor impact.
Twitter users joked it could be anything from a Mcdonald’s to a Moon Nazi base.
Just a matter of time before they built one there. pic.twitter.com/0McobbG9yy
— Binderdunnit (@njpc1888) December 3, 2021
😱😱🤯😜 pic.twitter.com/OURjDN0ud4
— Στέργιος Ζαμανάκος (@ZamanSt) December 6, 2021
The Yutu-2 began exploring the far side of the Moon in 2019. It’s part of China’s fourth mission to the Moon and the second one that involves a rover. Very little is known about the far side of the Moon, and space observes might have to wait a few months until an answer is found.
That’s where it’s at!
Wow, they finally found those Mormons...
Ignore the blather.
Key point:
2-3 months to travel less than a football field.
And they’re hyping chinese tech...
You are absolutely correct.
“Gilligan’s Crater”
Tomb of an ancient hero who wanted to be laid to rest near the planet of his birth. *sigh*
It’s supposed to be a monolith, not a cube.
The moon is full of mine fields and alien snipers.
That is why it takes so long to travel there.
;-)
Just our luck... China finds the black monolith
GMTA
You can’t out moon the Hut!
There is no “dark side of the moon”. All of the moon gets the same amount of illumination during the 28 day orbit of the earth. There is the “far side of the moon”, which we don’t see from the earth.
I’m headin’ down the Atlanta highway
Boy, I can’t even getaway from people when I’m on the moon! I thought it was an exclusive neighborhood...
No, it’s a Publix Supermarket. Since they covered Florida, they decided to put one in the moon for Space Alien Families. Dr. Moon, Publix VP of Moon Division, said that it is hard to get people to work there, but it is a great place to advance your career. They are building on Mars soon! 🤓
Maybe Richard Adams Locke, the editor of the Sun, was correct in 1835!
https://earthsky.org/human-world/great-moon-hoax-august-25-1835/
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/moon-shot-race-a-hoax-and-the-birth-of-fake-news
It’s a Dollar General store
I know. I know. I was just making fun of the title. ;)
Still, anywhere on the Moon except the poles gets 14 days of light, followed by 14 days of darkness. A solar powered probe would presumably “sleep” a lot. I would opt for the Seiko Springdrive.
So, did you like that movie “Iron Sky”? I smirked my whole way through it.
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