China Finds Explanation For 'Mystery Hut' Spotted On the Moon

'It's a rock. A small rock,' writes Slashdot reader BeerFartMoron. CBS News reports: China has discovered the explanation for the mysterious 'hut' its Yutu 2 rover spotted on the moon late last year. As the lunar rover made a closer approach, a log of its activities revealed the object was actually just a rock on a crater rim. The revelation came as the lunar rover drove closer to the formation that was once believed to be as tall as Paris' Arc de Triomphe, according to a post published Friday on 'Our Space,' a Chinese media channel affiliated with the China National Space Administration. Instead, it was much smaller and had a peculiar shape. Upon a closer view, the rock looked like a 'jade rabbit' holding carrots, the post said. 'The Moon's surface is 38 million square kilometres of rocks, so it would have been astronomically exceptional for it to be anything else,' Space News journalist Andrew Jones wrote on Twitter. 'But while small, the jade rabbit/ rock will also be a monumental disappointment to some.'

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