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‘Mystery hut’ spotted on dark side of Moon

A Chinese Yutu 2 rover has spotted an odd object on the far side of the Moon, and it’s been described in initial reports by media outlets as a “mystery hut.” Yutu 2 is now poised to take a closer look at it.

The strange cube-shaped object was first spotted by the Chinese lunar expedition in November, China’s science outreach channel Our Space reported. The rover detected the object on the horizon some 262 feet (80 meters) away to the north as it was traversing the Von Kármán crater in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon.

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The press office of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) published a photo of the object rising over the horizon against a background of dark skies. Few details can be ascertained from the photo, however, and the nature of the object remains unclear.

The Chinese have expressed a strong interest in investigating this “mystery hut,” and the rover is now expected to spend the next two or three lunar days – the equivalent of two or three months here on Earth – moving towards the object while avoiding the craters that pockmark the far side of the Earth’s satellite.

Yutu 2 made the first-ever landing on the far side of the Moon on January 3, 2019 and has been moving around the 115-mile-wide (186-km-wide) Von Kármán crater ever since. It is part of China’s fourth expedition to the Moon and the second that has involved a rover.

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  1. It’s the warehouse where the aliens store all of the eggs they harvested from women whom they’ve abducted in flying saucers, and the parts of the cattle they mutilated. It’s their equivalent of Area 51, so expect that Yutu 2 will fail before it gets too close.

  2. SHEEPLE!!!
    This is clearly the central radio tower for the GREATEST cover up mankind (not humankind, woman kind or trans kind thank you very much) has known!

    5G.

    It’s in the vaccine, that’s the real control. Not vaccine passports, that’s just to distract you from the 5G towers that will get those too SMART to get vaccinated.

    Open you’re ears and LISTEN

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