![]() It could be an illusion: “Why might it appear square or cubic? First, the image looks to have a pretty low resolution of features at or beyond the horizon, so it might not actually be square,” Byrne says.Byrne guides Inverse through a few scenarios: Almost like a door … or a Kubrick-esque monolith.Ī close-up view of the Moon Cube, “Mystery House,” or “Mystery Hut” Our Spaceīut while human craftsmanship tends to result in square angles and straight lines, not all square angles and straight lines result from human, or alien, handiwork. Taken from around 260 feet away, the “mystery hut,” or “mystery house,” as Our Space put it, appears like a tiny cube the same color as the lunar regolith, but with a black rectangle in the center. What is the mysterious Moon Cube?Ĭhina’s robotic Yutu-2 lunar rover spotted a remarkably square-looking gray object on the horizon on its 36th lunar day, according to reporting by, which translated an entry in a rover mission diary from the Chinese language website Our Space. The Moon cubes cometh - but we’ll be building them ourselves. Byrne says that better understanding the Moon could help astronauts better learn how to better “live off the land” and utilize lunar resources as part of lunar outposts. It may not fire the imagination like an alien origin, but the boulder will help scientists better understand the history and composition of the Moon, and provide a picture of what could form other strange outcroppings on the surface of our nearest neighbor. “There's pretty much nothing else I can think it might be - my potential lack of imagination notwithstanding.” “The object in that image is almost definitely, categorically, absolutely a boulder,” Byrne tells Inverse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Louis, sees it, he knows exactly what it is: the more mundane confluence of rocks, light, and shadow. And unfortunately for the overly imaginative, it’s unlikely to be aliens or something metaphysical.Īs Paul Byrne, a professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. The rover has since been making its way toward the mysterious object, investigating its origins. In November, the Chinese lunar rover Yutu-2 spotted the cube in the distance from the far side of the Moon. A time-traveling porta-pot from a 1932 skyscraper construction site. Source: image has tantalized the internet: an enigmatic cube-shaped object on the far side of the Moon.īut “strange cube” conjures up a few images: an alien Starbucks. It’s just a small rock on a crater rim that they’re now calling “jade rabbit” for its appearance. Ourspace has published an update on the “mystery hut” and it’s so underwhelming it’s brilliant. The China National Space Administration describes it as looking like a “jade rabbit” holding carrots. Well, the ‘hut’ turns out to be a small rock on the rim of a crater. But with no points of reference and no atmosphere on the Moon, it’s very difficult to get any sense of distance or scale (that goes for astronauts too).” ![]() In December, journalist Andrew Jones tweeted “This thing had been compared to/joked to be the CCTV pants building, the Arc de Triomphe, a McDonald’s and many more. It had been speculated that the ‘hut’ could be a rock the size of the Arc De Triomphe in France which is 50m tall, 45m wide and 22m thick. Well, we knew that! But what was surprising was the size of the rock. Well, the rover made the 80 meter journey to this hut and discovered that the ‘mysterious house’ was nothing more than a rock. Obviously, they did not think it was a hut in the tradition sense of being built by something/someone. Remember when China’s lunar rover spotted what looked like a hut on the moon? In early December 2021, Yutu 2 spotted something the space agency dubbed “神秘小屋” (“mystery house”) or a “hut”. ![]()
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