We have two months to ponder the moon "hut" before learning it's just a rock
China's lunar rover spotted a hut on the Moon that's obviously a big rock, but we're calling it a "hut" until proven otherwise
China’s Yutu 2 lunar rover recently sent back images of what is obviously just a big boring moon rock. Well, maybe it’s a “Moon Hut”, as some people are theorizing. It’s not, but maybe it is.
It could even be a Moon House, as some outlets are pondering. Perhaps, dare we say it, a Moon Cube? We won’t, though, because it’s clearly just a low-res photo of a far away rock.
But, like, it’s also kind of hut-like if you squint at it just right, so screw it: it’s gonna keep on being the Moon Hut until we are told otherwise. Which we will be, but haven’t been just yet.
According to Chinese space officials, the Yutu 2 rover is roughly 262-feet away from the “hut,” and will reach it in about two-to-three months’ time, at which point everyone will say, “Oh, looks like it’s just a big rock, and not a worldview-shattering Moon Hut. Carry on, then.”