The rock is also visible in imagery snapped by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Dubbed the 'mystery house' by Chinese media. Only better photos taken from a closer range will reveal the object’s true form. Yutu 2’s ‘mystery hut’: a cube-shaped oddity CNSA gave the cube the informal nickname of the ‘mystery hut.’ Don’t take it literally that it’s an actual hut. Last month, Chinas Yutu-2 rover sent home a striking image appearing to showalbeit very blurrilya cube-shaped object off in the distance. While giant block-shaped moon rocks aren’t that common, its specific shape might be due to the low resolution of the image. But based on previous moon explorations it probably is just a large boulder.
The professor’s dismissive statement might be disheartening to those who are intrigued by the moon hut discovery.
Speaking to Inside Outer Space (via ) he said the object is just a rock on a crater rim north of the rover’s last parking location. Update 07/01/22: Yutu-2 has explored the 'Mysterious House' on the far side of the Moon and discovered that it was just a rock. The country also successfully landed a solar-powered rover on Mars earlier this year.Īlthough the mystery moon hut is causing a lot of online buzz, Philip Stooke, a research professor in the Department of Geography and Institute for Earth and Space Exploration at the University of Western Ontario dismissed the find with one sweeping statement. They aim to set a new record for the length of time spent in space by Chinese astronauts. China launched a three-person crew for a six-month mission aboard its own space station in October. China's Yutu-2 probe explores 'mystery house' on the Moon Scientists shocked because NASA stopped producing the only ship to explore the moon China's Pearl Rabbit explorer ship ended the 60-year question on the Moon China's Yutu-2 probe will study a mysterious cube-shaped object it has previously detected on the Moon. While this moon hut may turn out to be nothing more than a basic moon rock, China’s latest discovery comes as the country has been accelerating its space program.
Who will come first with opportunities and challenges? Is the choice to move on right or wrong? In this area full of unknowns on the back of the moon, everything is possible.China’s Yutu 2 rover captured a cube-shaped object on the horizon of the far side of the moon that the China National Space Administration's outreach channel is describing as a "mystery hut." It will get closer in about 2-3 Earth months to get a better look. Referred to as (‘mystery house’), the next 2-3 lunar days will be spent getting closer to check it out,’ he wrote. The strange cube-shaped object was first spotted by the Chinese lunar expedition in November, China’s science outreach channel. Yutu 2 is now poised to take a closer look at it. Perhaps it will still be a steep terrain. 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 Krmn crater. A Chinese Yutu 2 rover has spotted an odd object on the far side of the Moon, and it’s been described in initial reports by media outlets as a mystery hut. What they didn’t expect was a visit from China’s Yutu-2 rover, which has discovered an unusual cube-shaped item on the lunar surface, which the China National Space Administration’s (CNSA) outreach channel Our Space has dubbed a mystery home.
In the face of the largest steep slope in history, drivers dare not venture easily and can only choose to follow a relatively steep slope. The soothing canyon tentatively moves forward, waiting for the right time to break through.Īlthough there seems to be hope of a breakthrough along the east-north direction… the drivers are also slightly worried about the follow-up route. Judging from the contour map, although the contour lines in the northeast direction are relatively sparse, they are faintly closed at the end of the field of view. Clearly, the aliens erected their homes on the far side of the Moon, away from the prying eyes of our telescopes. The rover has since been making its way toward the mysterious object, investigating its. If you want to continue westward, you must achieve a breakthrough, but the large slope on the northwest side has exceeded the capability of Yutu-2. In November, the Chinese lunar rover Yutu-2 spotted the cube in the distance from the far side of the Moon. “The first challenge to meet it is the current complex terrain: the east side is densely covered with large impact craters, forming a C-shaped enclosure the northwest is a group of ridges with uplift slopes of up to 10° with two impact craters, which hold Yutu II Firmly confined in the ‘crack,'” Our Space reported.
The journey won’t be easy - even though the object is just slightly more than 250 feet away.