The Yutu 2 rover from the China National Space Administration discovered a cube-shaped object on the far side of our satellite, so it will spend the next two months traveling to further investigate what appears to be a large rock. although it is not exactly known what it is.
This side of our lunar satellite is never visible from Earth, and prior to the Chang'e-4 mission, no space probe had reached that part of the surface due to communication difficulties.
Solar-powered Yutu 2 landed on January 3, 2019 and has been touring the Moon ever since. Last month, he took pictures of a mysterious object 80 meters away to the north, just on the horizon. And since Chinese scientists are intrigued by the object, they have programmed the rover to spend the next 2-3 lunar days, the equivalent of 2-3 Earth months, traveling towards it for a closer look.
Experts believe that it is likely a large rock from a meteorite impact but we will have to wait until next year to find out what this mysterious object is.
The far side of the moon, known colloquially as the dark side, actually receives as much light as the side that is closest to us, but is always farther away from Earth. This is because the moon is tidally locked to Earth, rotating at the same rate it orbits our planet, so the far side, or 'dark side', is never visible from our planet.
