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Jade Hare found a mysterious cube on the Moon

The Chinese lunar rover "Yuytu-2", which means "Jade Hare", during the exploration of the lunar crater, Von Karman filmed a strange object on the horizon. In a blurred photograph, the object looks like a cubic protrusion.
Von Kármán, not to be confused with the eponymous crater on Mars, is a huge ancient impact crater in the southern hemisphere of the far side of the Moon.
The Chinese Space Agency published a post on the Weixin social network on the subject, calling the object a "mystery booth." As a joke, versions were expressed that this is a temporary shelter for aliens, erected by them after the accident of their ship, or some kind of ship from Earth, ahead of the Chinese.
Most likely, this is just an unusual pile of stones, but we cannot say nothing more accurate until Yuytu-2 gets close to this object in order to study it more thoroughly. Scientists have estimated the distance to the object at 80 meters, and the lunar rover will have to pass it in a couple of months.
The low speed of the lunar rover is due to the need to stop throughout the lunar night, since it is powered by solar panels. At the same time, the night at the landing site of the lunar rover lasts about two weeks. Also, the rover has to stop when the Sun is at its zenith to avoid overheating. In addition, the lunar rover has to very carefully wade through a complex and dangerous landscape filled with boulders, cracks and craters.
While scientists believe that a boulder lying on the edge of the crater hit the camera lens. He could get there due to the impact of a meteorite on the moon. Such boulders turned up from the ground have already been observed on the Moon.
This is not the first curiosity found by Yuytu-2 on the Moon. In 2019, the lunar rover stumbled upon a strange substance, similar to a gel, which later turned out to be a moonstone that melted as a result of a meteorite impact and turned into glass.
A mysterious "cube" was discovered by the lunar rover on the 36th lunar day of its operation. Now it is the 37th working lunar day of Yuytu-2 on the Moon, where he arrived in January 2019. The mission of the lunar rover and the automatic interplanetary station "Chang'e-4" supporting it was designed for three months, but Yuytu-2 has been briskly working on the moon for the third year already. only an illusion. The famous "face on Mars", filmed in 1976 from the Viking-1 station, looked like a huge stone statue of a humanoid face. Later it turned out that it was an illusion caused by the play of light and shadow, as well as the low resolution of the Viking-1 television camera.
Jade Hare found a mysterious cube on the Moon