{"id":132429,"date":"2021-12-14T22:24:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T06:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/why-will-it-take-chinas-yutu-2-moon-rover-so-long-to-reach-lunar-mystery-hut"},"modified":"2021-12-14T22:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T06:24:15","slug":"why-will-it-take-chinas-yutu-2-moon-rover-so-long-to-reach-lunar-mystery-hut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/why-will-it-take-chinas-yutu-2-moon-rover-so-long-to-reach-lunar-mystery-hut","title":{"rendered":"Why will it take China\u2019s Yutu 2 moon rover so long to reach lunar \u2018mystery hut\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-will-it-take-chinas-yutu-2-moon-rover-so-long-to-reach-lunar-mystery-hut3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Complex terrain and Yutu 2\u2019s reliance on solar power limit driving speed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>China\u2019s Yutu 2 lunar rover recently spotted something intriguing on the far side of the moon, but it\u2019ll take the vehicle a few months to reach the object for a closer look.<\/p>\n<p>Yutu 2 photographed a strangely cube-shaped rock last month, during the robot\u2019s 36th lunar day of activities. The rover drive team estimates that the object, which has been dubbed the \u201cmystery hut,\u201d to be around 260 feet (80 meters) away. That doesn\u2019t sound far, but it\u2019ll take careful planning and effort by the Yutu 2 team to cover that distance safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complex terrain and Yutu 2\u2019s reliance on solar power limit driving speed. China\u2019s Yutu 2 lunar rover recently spotted something intriguing on the far side of the moon, but it\u2019ll take the vehicle a few months to reach the object for a closer look. Yutu 2 photographed a strangely cube-shaped rock last month, during the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1633,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}