China’s Chang’e-4 lunar rover has discovered a strange and mysterious ‘gel-like’ substance while examining the far side of the moon.
The rover Yutu-2, made the discovery in only it’s eight day of exploration, surprising scientists. There wasn’t much further detail given, outside of the enticing description that must be getting moon fanatics all excited about what the discovery could be, but to say ‘gel-like’ seems strange as the lunar surface is incapable of retaining liquids. Though water vapors have been detected in the past, that barometric pressure is close to kill.
Other have speculated that perhaps this is a meteor glass, formulated by the high-heat impact. Surprisingly, this wouldn’t be the first time glass-like shards have been discovered on the moon. Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmidt discovered orange-colored soil that turned out to be contaminated with a distant volcanic eruption. So what strange green substance is lurking on the dark side of the moon? I guess only time will tell.
