Chinese scientists analyzing the findings of the Yutu-2 lunar rover have identified a potentially interesting gooey moon matter, which they suspect has fallen from a meteor, which crashed on the planet.
While the rover was performing a scheduled “nap,” scientists on Earth were going through the photographs it had taken earlier. In one small lunar crater, the scientists spotted a gooey moon matter, which could reveal exciting data about the meteors interacting with the Moon.
According to some scientists, Moon craters can be a precious source of biomatter, which can reveal the secrets of our evolutionary history.
Gooey moon matter and science
Scientists are actively trying to get their hands on space matter, including substances like the gooey moon matter discovered by Yutu-2.
Space objects contain valuable biological information about their origin, and their analysis can potentially lead to surprising discoveries. Just recently, after more than fifty years of hard work, scientists managed to find a whole new mineral called Edscottite.
Such discoveries allow us to understand better our history and the way species evolve over billions of years. This is valuable knowledge, considering the fact that species on our planet are becoming extinct at an unimaginable rate. According to a recent United Nations report, the speed with which species are disappearing from our environment is close to thousand times higher than usual.
What is the gooey moon matter?
While the science team behind the Yutu-w mission has revealed scarce information about the essence of the substance found by the rover, scientists all over the globe are making predictions.
According to Mahesh Anand, a planetary expert form the United Kingdom Open University, the gooey moon matter is likely a form of liquified glass.
If this turns out to be the case, the discovery made by the Yutu-2 rover will be groundbreaking. Liquified glass from a space object could mean that the world might be introduced to a whole new material.
Unfortunately, until the Chinese labs behind the Yutu-2 mission reveal more information, scientists all over the world can only guess what the gooey moon matter actually is.
