In Chinese folklore, Yutu is the white pet rabbit of Chang’e, the moon goddess after which the lunar mission was named. Its maximum speed is 200 metres per hour. It can climb a 20-degree hill or an obstacle up to 8 inches tall. The Yutu-2 rover has six wheels that all have power, so it can continue to operate even if one wheel fails. Finally, he ‘woke up’ on December 27 and walked in a straight line to the ‘mysterious cabin’ up to 10 meters from it to start capturing images. After 60 meters of travel, night came and the rover was inactive for several days.
The rover Yutu-2 has far exceeded its three-month design lifespan, becoming the longest-working lunar rover on the moon. Yutu 2 passed between a series of impact craters and the rugged lunar relief. Chinas space agency released some photos and this object was firstly spotted in those images. Since, then it has become the subject of much speculation on social media. Yutu 2 took the first images of the object last month as part of a new expedition to the surface of the far side of the Moon. Recently, it spotted a mysterious, strange-looking, cube-shaped object on moon surface. Experimenting with color-changes, on the landscape shot, to reveal city skyline and buildings, in the background, it seems. The China National Space Administration has released the closest images so far of the cubic formation detected on the Moon by rover Yutu 2 in December and dubbed a mystery house by its outreach program Our Space. It was launched on December 8, 2018, and made the first-ever soft landing on the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon on January 3, 2019. The Yutu-2 rover is part of the Chinese Change 4 mission to the Moon. The Yutu 2 rover was carried to the far side of the moon by China’s Chang'e-4 probe. What they didnt expect was a visit from Chinas Yutu-2 rover, which has discovered an unusual cube-shaped item on the lunar surface, which the China. It is affiliated with the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Was it a home built by aliens after the crash landing? Or is it the pioneer spacecraft of the predecessors to explore the moon?” the website quoted from Yutu 2 diary being published regularly by Our Space, a Chinese language outreach channel.
There was a large "baby" impact crater beside it. This object pierced through the winding of the skyline, like a "mysterious hut" that appeared out of thin air. Credit: CNSA.“Suddenly, an obtrusive cube on the northern skyline caught their attention. Lead image caption: The view of the mystery rock on the edge of the crater from a short distance, as seen by the Yutu lunar rover. Dubbed the 'mystery house' by Chinese media. Thats not exactly a surprise, but its an amusing conclusion to the lunar enigma that entranced so many of us in December. Last month, Chinas Yutu-2 rover sent home a striking image appearing to showalbeit very blurrilya cube-shaped object off in the distance. Chinas Yutu 2 Rover Spots Mystery Hut on Far Side of Moon.
China’s Yutu 2 rover captured images of the mystery structure from around 260 feet. A cubic shape was spotted on the surface of the Moon. An intriguing cube-shaped object spotted on the far side of the moon has attracted the attention of scientists. The Our Space site notes that as of Janu, Yutu’s cumulative mileage finally exceeded the 1,000-meter mark, reaching reached 1003.9 meters by the time it reached the rock. Chinas Yutu 2 rover has sighted a mysterious house while driving across the Von Kármán crater during the missions 36th lunar day. The 'mystery hut,' or 'house,' spotted by Chinas Yutu-2 rover on the far side of the moon turns out to be - drumroll, please - a rock. Yutu 2 spotted a cube-shaped object on the horizon to the north and roughly 80 metres. The Yutu-2 rover is part of the Chinese Change 4 mission to the Moon. Yutu has been slowly roving across the lunar surface since landing in Von Kármán crater on the far side of the moon on January 3, 2019.
Is this well-behaved “rabbit” a foreigner or a resident of Moonback? How many years has it been waiting here? Was the fantasy of the “mysterious house” on the horizon just its calling? Is all this fate or coincidence?” The site then goes on to say now the rock is named “Jade Rabbit,” since it looks like “a rabbit about to eat, and the picture was so witty that I couldn’t help but laugh.
Just as everyone was lost, a driver stared at the enlarged picture and covered his mouth and exclaimed: “Gosh! This is… Yutu!” The original view from China’s Yutu 2 rov er of the “mysterious hut” o n the Moon. “Far away in the sky, the “mysterious hut” as tall as the Arc de Triomphe turned out to be very small when approached,” wrote the very poetic scientists who write on Our Space.