![]() JxflYLYgLbĪs we say, chances are it’s likely nothing – but the excitable and imaginative little kid in us still wants to hope it really is a mystery house and there’s something in it. It's coming up to three years on the Moon and Yutu-2 is still moving well. Here's a fantastic map of Yutu-2's driving across the 36 completed lunar days from Phil Stooke. Though there isn’t much more detail on whether the ‘mystery house’ is actually anything of note, Jones went on to discuss Yutu-2’s journey across the moon, from its “soft landing” in January 2019 to its 37th lunar day.Īs the thread goes on, you can also see the map tracking the course of its two-year-plus journey: The drive diary containing the image explains how the rover and drive team carefully navigated between craters, as it makes its way northwest from its landing site and towards a distant basaltic region of interest to team scientists. LWPZoWN05IĪs you can see, while he admitted that it likely isn’t an “obelisk or aliens”, having previously mistaken strange “gel-like substances” and “shards” for nothing more than rocks, he did say that it’s “certainly something to check out”.īelow you can see that large boulders and outcrops of rock often resemble noticeable structures from a distance but we’re still going to keep the faith that it’s something cool and, you know, not just more rocks. Yutu 2 spotted a cube-shaped object on the horizon to the north and roughly 260 feet (80 meters) away in November during the missions 36th lunar day, according to a Yutu 2 diary published by Our. Referred to as "神秘小屋" ("mystery house"), the next 2-3 lunar days will be spent getting closer to check it out. 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. ![]() That’s right, journalist Andrew Jones has been chronicling Chang’e-4 lunar mission since 2019 and this past Friday he tweeted how the Yutu-2 lunar probe had spotted a “cubic shape” around 80 metres away from a crater it was roaming.Īh. Read it as many times you like, that’s still what it said. Credit: CNSA.China is set to send their space rover to investigate a mystery house spotted on the moon. Lead image caption: The view of the mystery rock on the edge of the crater from a short distance, as seen by the Yutu lunar rover. The Our Space site notes that as of Janu, Yutu’s cumulative mileage finally exceeded the 1,000-meter mark, reaching reached 1003.9 meters by the time it reached the rock. Yutu has been slowly roving across the lunar surface since landing in Von Kármán crater on the far side of the moon on January 3, 2019. Is this well-behaved “rabbit” a foreigner or a resident of Moonback? How many years has it been waiting here? Was the fantasy of the “mysterious house” on the horizon just its calling? Is all this fate or coincidence?” ![]() The site then goes on to say now the rock is named “Jade Rabbit,” since it looks like “a rabbit about to eat, and the picture was so witty that I couldn’t help but laugh. Just as everyone was lost, a driver stared at the enlarged picture and covered his mouth and exclaimed: “Gosh! This is… Yutu!” The original view from China’s Yutu 2 rov er of the “mysterious hut” o n the Moon. “Far away in the sky, the “mysterious hut” as tall as the Arc de Triomphe turned out to be very small when approached,” wrote the very poetic scientists who write on Our Space.
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