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Are they totally, absolutely 100% sure it isn’t cheese?
FULL STORY (With Photos):We've Got New Photos of That Weird Substance China Found on The Moon
China's Yutu-2 lunar lander just sent back new images of a strange substance it found near a small crater on the far side of the Moon. ...
So what is it? The best guess we have so far is that it's a piece of lunar glass that formed during a meteor impact.
It's likely that the Chinese researchers will release more images and spectrometer readings of the mysterious substance in the future.
It will have to — at the very least — wait for the Sun to rise again to continue its investigation. And that's roughly a week from now. ...
Those photos do not bring us any further forward. I can't see anything unusual there. Also, I can't see anything coloured.Here's an update ...
FULL STORY (With Photos):
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-ve-got-new-photos-of-that-weird-substance-china-found-on-the-moon
If you copy the pic and paste it into a paint program and then zoom right in, then you can see it. It looks colourised (like an old B & W photo) and is very pale.there is a weird block of pale colour at centre of the crater close-up, but it does look like someones selected a rough trapezium shape in paint and added some light colours
SOURCE: https://www.sciencealert.com/we-fin...mysterious-substance-yutu-2-found-on-the-moonChina Releases a New Photo of The Mystery Substance They Found on The Moon
In August, Chinese lunar rover Yutu-2 discovered something strange on the far side of the Moon: a mysterious substance that the Chinese space agency referred to as "gel-like" and "colored".
And now, China's Lunar Exploration Program has released a new photo of the substance - shedding more light on what the strange substance could possibly be.
According to experts, it's most likely what scientists initially hypothesized: dark glass formed as a result of an impact - the same stuff American astronauts found during the Apollo 17 mission ...
Glistening 'Gel-Like' Substance on Far Side of The Moon Finally Identified
A peculiar "gel-like" substance the Chinese Yutu-2 rover discovered in a small impact crater on the far side of the Moon last year has now been identified. According to analysis of the images, and comparison with Apollo samples here on Earth, it's exactly what you'd expect to find on the Moon: rock.
More specifically, it's rock that was melted together - likely in the heat of a meteorite impact - to form a dark green, glossy, glassy mass.
"Chang'e-4 rover discovered a dark greenish and glistening impact melt breccia in a crater during its traverse on the floor of Von Kármán crater within the South Pole Aitken (SPA) basin on the lunar farside," the researchers wrote in their paper.
"It was formed by impact-generated welding, cementing, and agglutinating of lunar regolith and breccia." ...
Water? Granite is an igneous rock and (AFAIK) doesn't need water to form.The seems the best place for this - granite found on the moon (so where is the water?):
"In the past, we have found some bits of granite from lunar samples taken from the Moon. However, the amount of granite in those samples has been extremely small, especially when compared to the more than 800 pounds of lunar soil and rock taken for sampling. So how is it that a huge cache of granite came to be on the Moon?"
https://bgr.com/science/researchers-found-granite-on-the-moon-and-have-no-idea-how-it-got-there/
Water? Granite is an igneous rock and (AFAIK) doesn't need water to form.
Ah... OK. Well, all it needs is enough volcanic activity to push the magma to the surface, where it would have cooled rapidly."Despite being one of the most popular options for countertops in the world, granite has been very difficult to find anywhere else in our solar system. That’s because of how it is made. See, normally, granite needs plate tectonics or water-bearing magmas in order to form"
Didn't make that clear, sorry.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66562629Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon
Published
1 hour ago
By Aoife Walsh & Will Vernon
BBC News, in London and Moscow
Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.
The craft was due to be the first ever to land on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering problems as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.
It was set to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.
Roscosmos, Russia's state space corporation, said on Sunday morning that it had lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after 14:57pm (11:57 GMT) on Saturday.
Preliminary findings showed that the 800kg lander had "ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon", it said in a statement.
They're being shot down by the Nazi moonbase, as in the Iron Sky documentary.I forgot to comment before about the Indian mission that crashed onto the moon in it's planned landing area, the Southern pole.
And now the Russian one, just days later, has also crashed onto the moon in it's planned landing area, the Southern pole.
Why are these missions trying to get there anyways - Is there something going on at the moons southern pole that we aren't being told about?
I'm not sure that it was a documentary mate.documentary
Brought down by a Ukrainian drone - fact!
Brought down by a Ukrainian drone - fact!
And you read it here first...
I was sure I had read somewhere that it crashed but upon reflection I think they were talking about it's predecessor.Chandrayaan-3 slated to land about 6pm on Wed 23rd
Shot down by this guy (Australians of a certain vintage will know this man, but to Others, Mr Squiggle lives on the moon).....
I bet he must hate it when this arse-hat keeps visiting him with his family of wasters.Mr Squiggle lives on the moon
Shot down by this guy (Australians of a certain vintage will know this man, but to Others, Mr Squiggle lives on the moon).....
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