Post by MCDemuth on Dec 7, 2021 18:06:29 GMT -6
Not sure where to put this news story...
"it's not an obelisk or aliens"
Although, it may be unlikely... Considering that it is "hard to discern much from the image"... that assumption is a bit premature.
Looking forward to finding out what it may really be... If they tell us.
EDIT:
Intriguingly, the Our Space announcement says the object appeared “out of thin air.” While this may be a way of expressing surprise at its unexpected discovery, this peculiar wording raises the possibility that the rover had photographed the same area earlier and that no object was visible at that time.
Read More Here:
www.ancient-origins.net/news-science-space/moon-rover-0016159
China's Yutu 2 rover spots cube-shaped 'mystery hut' on far side of the moon
By Andrew Jones published 2 days ago
It's likely a large boulder excavated by an ancient lunar impact.
China’s Yutu 2 rover has spotted a mystery object on the horizon while working its way across Von Kármán crater on the far side of the moon.
Yutu 2 spotted a cube-shaped object on the horizon to the north and roughly 260 feet (80 meters) away in November during the mission's 36th lunar day, according to a Yutu 2 diary published by Our Space, a Chinese language science outreach channel affiliated with the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Our Space referred to the object as a "mystery hut" (神秘小屋/shenmi xiaowu), but this a placeholder name rather than an accurate description.
This zoomed-in image shows a closer look at a cube shape spotted by China's Yutu 2 rover on the far side of the moon.
Team scientists have expressed a strong interest in the object and Yutu 2 is now expected to spend the next 2-3 lunar days (2-3 Earth months) traversing lunar regolith and avoiding craters to get a closer look, so updates can be expected.
A likely explanation for the shape would be a large boulder which has been excavated by an impact event.
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/ifOIFr4oQIDecember 3, 2021
Read More Here:
www.space.com/china-yutu-2-moon-rover-cube-shaped-object-photos
By Andrew Jones published 2 days ago
It's likely a large boulder excavated by an ancient lunar impact.
China’s Yutu 2 rover has spotted a mystery object on the horizon while working its way across Von Kármán crater on the far side of the moon.
Yutu 2 spotted a cube-shaped object on the horizon to the north and roughly 260 feet (80 meters) away in November during the mission's 36th lunar day, according to a Yutu 2 diary published by Our Space, a Chinese language science outreach channel affiliated with the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Our Space referred to the object as a "mystery hut" (神秘小屋/shenmi xiaowu), but this a placeholder name rather than an accurate description.
This zoomed-in image shows a closer look at a cube shape spotted by China's Yutu 2 rover on the far side of the moon.
Team scientists have expressed a strong interest in the object and Yutu 2 is now expected to spend the next 2-3 lunar days (2-3 Earth months) traversing lunar regolith and avoiding craters to get a closer look, so updates can be expected.
A likely explanation for the shape would be a large boulder which has been excavated by an impact event.
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/ifOIFr4oQIDecember 3, 2021
Read More Here:
www.space.com/china-yutu-2-moon-rover-cube-shaped-object-photos
"it's not an obelisk or aliens"
Although, it may be unlikely... Considering that it is "hard to discern much from the image"... that assumption is a bit premature.
Looking forward to finding out what it may really be... If they tell us.
EDIT:
Intriguingly, the Our Space announcement says the object appeared “out of thin air.” While this may be a way of expressing surprise at its unexpected discovery, this peculiar wording raises the possibility that the rover had photographed the same area earlier and that no object was visible at that time.
Read More Here:
www.ancient-origins.net/news-science-space/moon-rover-0016159