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December 8th, 2021
Credit: CNSA/CLEP
More news on that “mystery” object spotted on the Moon by China’s Yutu-2 lunar rover.
The object, shaped like a hut, was spotted in November, two years after the rover was dispatched onto the Moon’s landscape. Photos of the feature have spurred a variety of comments. It was seen over 260-feet (80-meters) away from the rover’s location.
Credit: CNSA/CLEP
Yutu-2 controllers say it may take up to three months for the slow-going rover to reach the site.
Cyberspace spotlight
According to China’s Xinhua news agency, the blurry cube image has become a “cyberspace meme.” Some even used computer graphics to enhance the picture, jokingly, into a Minecraft portal or a Nissan minicar. Then, according to an Inside Outer Space reader: “It looks like a McDonald’s to me,”
Credit: CNSA/CLEP
The Chang’e-4/Yutu-2 lunar machinery was launched on December 8, 2018, making the first-ever soft landing within the Von Kármán crater – a large farside lunar impact feature — on January 3, 2019.
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Also, go to my “Mystery Hut” spotted on the moon by Chinese rover is just a rock, scientist says at:
https://www.space.com/mystery-hut-moon-rock-china-yutu-2-rover
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