Remember the "Moon Cube"? China Just Published a New Photo and Uhhhhh – Futurism

This is what we get for getting our hopes up. Dark Side of the Moon

It was just a month ago that the world was introduced to what appeared to be abizarre cube on the Moon and just like that, now it turns out the object was little more than an optical illusion.

AsSpaceNews correspondent Andrew Jones tweeted, the latest Chinese images of the Moon Cube from closer up now show that the mysterious object appears to bewell, a perfectly normal Moon rock.Sorry, folks. Sometimes space is boring.

Oh, this is amazing, Jones wrote. Close to tears.

The latest photos of the mystery hut, as it was originally known in Chinese media, show that this relatively small rock sitting on the edge of a lunar crater isnt extraordinary in any way and as the SpaceNews reporter wrote, the newly-dubbed jade rabbit is so underwhelming its brilliant.

The Moons surface is 38 million square kilometres of rocks, so it would have been astronomically exceptional for it to be anything else, Jones wrote in a subsequent tweet. But while small, the jade rabbit/ rock will also be a monumental disappointment to some.

Before this underwhelming discovery, conspiracy theories about the Moon Cube abounded, with netizens half-jokingly comparing it to the scourge of monoliths that plagued Earth in the first pandemic summer, and others still advising the Chinese Yutu 2 rover to go back in the other direction and avoid it as if contaminated.

There was always a great likelihood that the cube was going to be a plain ol rock. But this does, if nothing else, set a hilarious tone for whats gearing up to be a huge year in space exploration.

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