During November, Rover captured an image of what appears to be a large cubic object on the horizon about 80 meters from its site in the lunar Von Karman crater, China’s government science website Our Space said, referring to the latest data obtained on December 3.
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The British newspaper The Independent points out that the Chinese CNSA itself described the unit as a “mysterious house”.
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So yeah, it’s not an obelisk or aliens, but certainly something to check out, and hard to discern much from the image. But large boulders (right) are sometimes excavated by impacts, as seen by the Chang’e-3 mission, which launched 8 years ago on Dec 1. [CNSA/CLEP] pic.twitter.com/ifOIFr4oQI
– Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) December 3, 2021
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In reality, however, the strange spot in the image is probably nothing more than a piece of lunar rock – a large boulder that was “blasted” to its current position by a meteorite impact, writes the IFLScience website. Unlike Earth, the Moon lacks a strong atmosphere to protect it from “asteroid attacks”.
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Further search of the Yutchu-2 vehicle will bring more specific conclusions. According to Reuters, Chinese engineers warned that it could take up to three months for the rover to reach the site directly.
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Internet jokes
However, under the hashtag “The Last Discovery of Yuchu,” a series of Internet memes appeared that showed a cart moving across the lunar plain toward a pair of obelisks, a high monolith, or even a giant sickle and hammer, a communist party symbol.
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“It’s space debris left here by the United States,” one Chinese Internet user wrote in a social media post. “Come closer and you’ll see it’s a nucleic acid test site for covid-19,” another said. “It’s the home of the aliens!” Said the third with feigned horror.
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Others suggested a more mundane – and therefore more likely – possibility: that it was an ordinary big stone.
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The Yutchu spacecraft is powered by solar energy and, according to Our Space, will cover a distance of 80 meters in two to three lunar days, ie two to three Earth moons. The robotic vehicle has been operating since its launch in January 2019 in Von Kármán Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin. No other state had landed on the far side of the moon until then.
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