China Says Rover Discovered Glass Spheres on the Dark Side of the Moon
upstart writes:
China Says Rover Discovered Glass Spheres on the Dark Side of the Moon:
China's Yutu-2 rover just won't stop making - or at least claiming - weird discoveries on the Moon. Case in point, Chinese space authorities now say it's found several mysterious glass spheres found on the far side of the lunar surface.
The team behind the discovery published a paper about the findings in the journal Science Bulletin, in which they describe the objects as "translucent glass globules."
The spheres are roughly a centimeter in diameter, they say, and were spotted in images taken by the panorama camera on the Yutu-2 rover on the dark side of the Moon.
[...] Though the globules seem plausible, it's worth noting that Yutu-2 has been the source of some sketchy claims during its tenure on the Moon. Remember that "moon cube" that turned out to be a boring rock? Or that "gel" that turned out to be, uh, another rock?
Journal Reference:
Zhiyong Xiao, Pan Yan, Bo Wu, et al. Translucent glass globules on the Moon, Science Bulletin (DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2021.11.004)
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