You probably heard about the "Hut on the Moon" that China's Yutu 2 rover
has spotted. I don't think the hut itself is interesting but what I
don't understand is why the image provided by China is so blurry. earthsky.org/space/mystery-hut-yutu-2-rover-far-side-of-moon-china/
The hut is supposed to be about 80 m away. At that distance a hut should
be easy to see. Maybe the thing is very small and the image in the press releases is a blow up of a small portion of the actual image. But then
calling it a hut would be a strange name for it. If it is really very
small, calling it a die would make more sense.

Then there is also the fact that they say that it will take 2-3 lunar
days (months) for the rover to get there. That would be an average speed
of about 5 cm per hour. I know rovers can be slow, but that is a little ridiculous.

So does anyone know at which speed Yutu 2 can roll and what resolution
its cameras have? Does anyone know that there has been some kind of
error in those news releases?


Alain Fournier

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Snidely scribbled something on Sunday the 12/12/2021:

Alain Fournier explained on 12/11/2021 :

You probably heard about the "Hut on the Moon" that China's Yutu 2 rover
has spotted. I don't think the hut itself is interesting but what I don't
understand is why the image provided by China is so blurry.
earthsky.org/space/mystery-hut-yutu-2-rover-far-side-of-moon-china/
The hut is supposed to be about 80 m away. At that distance a hut should be >> easy to see. Maybe the thing is very small and the image in the press
releases is a blow up of a small portion of the actual image. But then
calling it a hut would be a strange name for it. If it is really very
small, calling it a die would make more sense.

Then there is also the fact that they say that it will take 2-3 lunar days >> (months) for the rover to get there. That would be an average speed of
about 5 cm per hour. I know rovers can be slow, but that is a little
ridiculous.

So does anyone know at which speed Yutu 2 can roll and what resolution its >> cameras have? Does anyone know that there has been some kind of error in
those news releases?

I don't have the Yutu 2 specs, but consider that on November 08, 2020, from Sol 2933 to Sol 2936, Curiosity had driven a straight line distance of about 123.14 feet (37.53 meters), bringing the rover's total odometry for the mission to 14.47 miles (23.29 kilometers).

And more recently:
"On Sept. 12, 2021 (Sol 200) Perseverance drove 175.15m in a single sol
setting up for the entry into Séítah after going as far as time
available for driving would allow. After an 8m segment to build the
initial terrain map, the remainder 167m of the drive used AutoNav – the farthest any of our Mars rovers have driven autonomously in a single
sol. "

<URL:https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/status/342/driving-farther-and-faster-with-autonomous-navigation-and-helicopter-scouting/>

/dps

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Alain Fournier explained on 12/11/2021 :

You probably heard about the "Hut on the Moon" that China's Yutu 2 rover has spotted. I don't think the hut itself is interesting but what I don't understand is why the image provided by China is so blurry. earthsky.org/space/mystery-hut-yutu-2-rover-far-side-of-moon-china/
The hut is supposed to be about 80 m away. At that distance a hut should be easy to see. Maybe the thing is very small and the image in the press releases is a blow up of a small portion of the actual image. But then calling it a hut would be a strange name for it. If it is really very small, calling it a die would make more sense.

Then there is also the fact that they say that it will take 2-3 lunar days (months) for the rover to get there. That would be an average speed of about 5 cm per hour. I know rovers can be slow, but that is a little ridiculous.

So does anyone know at which speed Yutu 2 can roll and what resolution its cameras have? Does anyone know that there has been some kind of error in those news releases?

I don't have the Yutu 2 specs, but consider that on November 08, 2020,
from Sol 2933 to Sol 2936, Curiosity had driven a straight line
distance of about 123.14 feet (37.53 meters), bringing the rover's
total odometry for the mission to 14.47 miles (23.29 kilometers).

/dps

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On Dec/12/2021 at 05:10, Snidely wrote :

Snidely  scribbled something on Sunday the 12/12/2021:

Alain Fournier explained on 12/11/2021 :

You probably heard about the "Hut on the Moon" that China's Yutu 2
rover has spotted. I don't think the hut itself is interesting but
what I don't understand is why the image provided by China is so blurry. >>> earthsky.org/space/mystery-hut-yutu-2-rover-far-side-of-moon-china/
The hut is supposed to be about 80 m away. At that distance a hut
should be easy to see. Maybe the thing is very small and the image in
the press releases is a blow up of a small portion of the actual
image. But then calling it a hut would be a strange name for it. If
it is really very small, calling it a die would make more sense.

Then there is also the fact that they say that it will take 2-3 lunar
days (months) for the rover to get there. That would be an average
speed of about 5 cm per hour. I know rovers can be slow, but that is
a little ridiculous.

So does anyone know at which speed Yutu 2 can roll and what
resolution its cameras have? Does anyone know that there has been
some kind of error in those news releases?

I don't have the Yutu 2 specs, but consider that on November 08, 2020,
from Sol 2933 to Sol 2936, Curiosity had driven a straight line
distance of about 123.14 feet (37.53 meters), bringing the rover's
total odometry for the mission to 14.47 miles (23.29 kilometers).

And more recently:
"On Sept. 12, 2021 (Sol 200) Perseverance drove 175.15m in a single sol setting up for the entry into Séítah after going as far as time
available for driving would allow. After an 8m segment to build the
initial terrain map, the remainder 167m of the drive used AutoNav – the farthest any of our Mars rovers have driven autonomously in a single sol. "

So 175m in a sol is about 150 times faster than 80m in 2-3 months. Since
Yutu 2 doesn't really need auto-pilot capabilities and can be remotely controlled from earth, I really don't see why it should be so slow.

Of course, the hut might very well be a very low priority objective.
Maybe they can roll 80m in 10 minutes, but they are going to do science
on the way and take a few detours to check a few other things before
going to the hut.


Alain Fournier

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Alain Fournier <alain245@videotron.ca> wrote:

You probably heard about the "Hut on the Moon" that China's Yutu 2
rover has spotted. I don't think the hut itself is interesting but
what I don't understand is why the image provided by China is so
blurry. http://earthsky.org/space/mystery-hut-yutu-2-rover-far-side-of-moon-china/ The hut is supposed to be about 80 m away. At that distance a hut
should be easy to see. Maybe the thing is very small and the image in
the press releases is a blow up of a small portion of the actual
image. But then calling it a hut would be a strange name for it. If it
is really very small, calling it a die would make more sense.

It was blurry, since it was zoomed in as much as the image could allow.
Was anyone really surprised it turned out to be just a boulder?

https://www.sciencealert.com/three-guesses-what-that-mysterious-hut-found-on-the-moon-turned-out-to-be

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On 12-Dec-21 12:10 pm, Alain Fournier wrote:

You probably heard about the "Hut on the Moon" that China's Yutu 2 rover
has spotted. I don't think the hut itself is interesting but what I
don't understand is why the image provided by China is so blurry. earthsky.org/space/mystery-hut-yutu-2-rover-far-side-of-moon-china/
The hut is supposed to be about 80 m away. At that distance a hut should
be easy to see. Maybe the thing is very small and the image in the press releases is a blow up of a small portion of the actual image. But then calling it a hut would be a strange name for it. If it is really very
small, calling it a die would make more sense.

Then there is also the fact that they say that it will take 2-3 lunar
days (months) for the rover to get there. That would be an average speed
of about 5 cm per hour. I know rovers can be slow, but that is a little ridiculous.

So does anyone know at which speed Yutu 2 can roll and what resolution
its cameras have? Does anyone know that there has been some kind of
error in those news releases?

Alain Fournier

The "hut" has been clearly identified as a rock.

Sylvia.

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Watch this space, where Sylvia Else advised that...

On 12-Dec-21 12:10 pm, Alain Fournier wrote:

You probably heard about the "Hut on the Moon" that China's Yutu 2 rover
has spotted. I don't think the hut itself is interesting but what I don't
understand is why the image provided by China is so blurry.
earthsky.org/space/mystery-hut-yutu-2-rover-far-side-of-moon-china/
The hut is supposed to be about 80 m away. At that distance a hut should be >> easy to see. Maybe the thing is very small and the image in the press
releases is a blow up of a small portion of the actual image. But then
calling it a hut would be a strange name for it. If it is really very
small, calling it a die would make more sense.

Then there is also the fact that they say that it will take 2-3 lunar days >> (months) for the rover to get there. That would be an average speed of
about 5 cm per hour. I know rovers can be slow, but that is a little
ridiculous.

So does anyone know at which speed Yutu 2 can roll and what resolution its >> cameras have? Does anyone know that there has been some kind of error in
those news releases?


Alain Fournier

The "hut" has been clearly identified as a rock.

How many days did it take to get close enough to confirm that?

/dps

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On Jan/22/2022 at 04:48, Snidely wrote :

Watch this space, where Sylvia Else advised that...

On 12-Dec-21 12:10 pm, Alain Fournier wrote:

You probably heard about the "Hut on the Moon" that China's Yutu 2
rover has spotted. I don't think the hut itself is interesting but
what I don't understand is why the image provided by China is so blurry. >>> earthsky.org/space/mystery-hut-yutu-2-rover-far-side-of-moon-china/
The hut is supposed to be about 80 m away. At that distance a hut
should be easy to see. Maybe the thing is very small and the image in
the press releases is a blow up of a small portion of the actual
image. But then calling it a hut would be a strange name for it. If
it is really very small, calling it a die would make more sense.

Then there is also the fact that they say that it will take 2-3 lunar
days (months) for the rover to get there. That would be an average
speed of about 5 cm per hour. I know rovers can be slow, but that is
a little ridiculous.

So does anyone know at which speed Yutu 2 can roll and what
resolution its cameras have? Does anyone know that there has been
some kind of error in those news releases?


Alain Fournier

The "hut" has been clearly identified as a rock.

How many days did it take to get close enough to confirm that?

The EarthSky article https://earthsky.org/space/mystery-hut-yutu-2-rover-far-side-of-moon-china/
I referred to was dated Dec 10, 2021. The Science alert article Otto J.
Makela referred to https://www.sciencealert.com/three-guesses-what-that-mysterious-hut-found-on-the-moon-turned-out-to-be
was dated Jan 10, 2022. So that is a 31 day gap. The new image is still
blurry so I would guess still taken from a distance.

More interestingly, in the Science alert paper, they say that Yutu has
driven over 1000 meters since January 2019. So the rover seems to be
speeding along at the high speed of about 1 meter per day. I think the
slow speed is for the ground penetrating radar they are using. Chasing
rocks, even rocks that have strange shapes is lower priority than using
the ground penetrating radar.


Alain Fournier

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