{"id":21065,"date":"2019-09-09T12:32:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T12:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=21065"},"modified":"2019-09-09T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T12:32:51","slug":"yutu-finds-remarkable-gooey-moon-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/yutu-finds-remarkable-gooey-moon-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Yutu finds remarkable gooey moon matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese scientists analyzing the findings of the <\/b>Yutu-2<\/b><\/a> lunar rover have identified a potentially interesting gooey moon matter, which they suspect has fallen from a meteor, which crashed on the planet.<\/b>
\nWhile the rover was performing a scheduled \u201cnap,\u201d 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.<\/span>
\nAccording to some scientists, Moon craters can be a precious source of biomatter, which can reveal the secrets of our <\/b>evolutionary history<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

Gooey moon matter and science<\/span><\/h2>\n

Scientists are actively trying to get their hands on space matter, including substances like the gooey moon matter discovered by Yutu-2.<\/span>
\nSpace objects contain valuable biological information about their origin, and their analysis can potentially lead to surprising discoveries.<\/b> Just recently, after more than fifty years of hard work, scientists managed to find a whole new mineral called <\/span>Edscottite<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>
\nSuch discoveries allow us to understand better our history and the way species evolve over billions of years. <\/span>This is valuable knowledge, considering the fact that species on our planet are becoming extinct at an unimaginable rate.<\/b> According to a recent <\/span>United Nations report<\/span><\/a>, the speed with which species are disappearing from our environment is close to thousand times higher than usual.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the gooey moon matter?<\/span><\/h2>\n

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.<\/b>
\nAccording to Mahesh Anand, a planetary expert form the United Kingdom Open University, the gooey moon matter is likely a form of liquified glass. <\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nIf 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.<\/span>
\nUnfortunately, 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.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u201cnap,\u201d scientists on Earth were going through the photographs it had taken earlier. In one small lunar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}