The mission’s Yutu-2 rover stumbled across an unexpected shard-shaped rock, excitedly described by the team as a "milestone”.
It seems to have a shard-like shape and is sticking out of the ground. That's definitely unusual
Dr Dan Moriarty
In a Yutu 2 diary published by Our Space, Chinese language science outreach channel affiliated with the China National Space Administration (CNSA), mission scientists announced the elongated rock required closer inspection.
Despite the lunar anomaly not looking too unusual to the untrained eye, the discovery has garnered significant interest among space experts.
Dr Dan Moriarty, NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center, told