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China has shared a new image of the mystery substance on the lunar surface which has puzzled the scientific community for several weeks.

中國(guó)分享了一張?jiān)虑虮砻嫔衩匚镔|(zhì)的新圖片,這張圖片幾周來一直困擾著科學(xué)界。

To the untrained eye, it appears like just another photo of dirt, but with each new image, the potential for correctly identifying where the substance came from, and what it really is, grows.

對(duì)于未經(jīng)訓(xùn)練的眼睛來說,它看起來就像是一張泥土的照片,但是隨著每一張新圖片的出現(xiàn),就越有可能正確識(shí)別這種物質(zhì)來自哪里以及它到底是什么。

China’s lunar rover Yutu-2 touched down on the dark side of the moon on January 2. Months later, it stumbled upon the strange substance during its second pass by the seven-foot-wide (two-meter) crater.

中國(guó)的月球車“玉兔2號(hào)”于1月2日在月球背面著陸。幾個(gè)月后,它在第二次經(jīng)過這個(gè)7英尺寬(2米)的隕石坑時(shí),偶然發(fā)現(xiàn)了這種奇怪的物質(zhì)。

With this latest photo, the current consensus remains the same: that the strange substance is a kind of dark glass which formed as the result of a meteorite impact. The blast likely pressurized and superheated minerals on the lunar surface into a material similar to what the Apollo 17 astronauts discovered.

對(duì)于這張最新的照片,目前的共識(shí)仍然是一樣的: 這種奇怪的物質(zhì)是某種暗色的玻璃,是隕石撞擊的結(jié)果。爆炸很可能使月球表面的礦物質(zhì)受到壓力和過熱,變成了一種類似于阿波羅17號(hào)宇航員所發(fā)現(xiàn)的物質(zhì)。

“I think the most reliable information here is that the material is relatively dark,” Dan Moriarty, NASA Postdoctoral Program fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center told Space.com.

“我認(rèn)為這里最可靠的信息是,材料相對(duì)較暗,”丹·莫里亞蒂,美國(guó)國(guó)家航空航天管理局戈達(dá)德太空飛行中心的博士后項(xiàng)目研究員告訴《太空網(wǎng)》說。

“It appears to have brighter material embedded within the larger, darker regions, although there is a chance that is light glinting off a smooth surface.”

“它似乎在更大、更暗的區(qū)域嵌入了一些更亮的物質(zhì),雖然有可能是光線從光滑的表面反射出來?!?/b>

The lander is just about to wake up from a planned two-week nap, during the lunar night, so the next trip to the dark crater which houses the strange, glassy goo might yield more answers - or potentially pose more questions.

在月球之夜,登陸器即將從計(jì)劃中的兩周小睡中醒來。所以下一次前往有著奇怪的、玻璃狀粘性物質(zhì)的黑暗隕石坑,就可能會(huì)帶來更多答案——或者可能帶來更多問題。