The 'Moon Cube' discovered by Chinese explorers turned to stone

China Rover Yuto-2, on the other hand month, I saw a distant cube-shaped object last month.
China space agency The object is called the “mysterious hut”. Others call it the “moon cube”.
The explorer got closer and took a better picture, revealing that the “cube” was a rock in the shape of a rabbit.

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The mysterious Chinese “moon cube” is no longer a mystery. Big reveal: This is a rock that isn’t even shaped like a cube.

The Yutu-2 rover discovered the object – which looks like a gray cube towering over the lunar horizon – in early December. China’s National Space Agency (CNSA) dubbed it the “mysterious hut”, humorously speculating that the cube might be the home of an alien or a spaceship.

News reports refer to it as the “moon cube”.

Cube-shaped rock on the moon's horizon — China released Yutu-2 images of a “mysterious hut” on the lunar horizon on December 3, 2021.

CNSA estimates that the object is about 80 meters (262 ft) away, according to article “Space”, ready to push the rover there. The blog says it will take two or three months to get to the cube.

After several weeks of preparation and driving, the explorers were close enough to see the Mysterious Shack was just a rock. Its sharp geometric appearance on the horizon is a simple illusion of perspective, light, and shadow.

in a updated Published on Friday, Our Space has released the latest images of the rover for its target below.

The surface of the moon with a rabbit-shaped rock in the distance — China released Yutu-2 images of the “mysterious hut”, now called the “Jade Rabbit”, on January 7, 2021.

An explorer on the blog noticed that the rock was in the shape of a rabbit, and in front of it were small stones that looked like carrots. The rover’s name, Yutu, means “Jade Rabbit” – now the name of the rock as well.

Yutu-2 reached the moon in January 2019, when the Chang’e-4 lander landed on the lunar surface and rolled sideways until the rover landed. It was the first mission to land on the far side of the moon.

In the next three years, Yutu-2 traveled more than 1,000 meters (0.6 miles), used ground-penetrating radar to detect the very deep lunar soil layers, and identified rocks from the lunar mantle, beneath the crust, that were pushed to the surface when they collided. An asteroid with a moon billions of years ago.