China discovers 'unusually colored' moon goo

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We had it all wrong, folks. The moon isn't made of cheese — it's made of goo.

Chinese lunar rover Yutu-2 discovered an unidentified "gel-like" substance on "the far side of the moon" back in July, the state-run newspaper People's Daily and Newsweek report. People's Daily additionally described the extraterrestrial slime as being "unusually colored," but did not clarify what exactly that Lovecraftian statement meant. Intriguingly, Yu Tianyi, who works on the rover's drive team, confirmed to the Chinese-language website Our Space that the goo's color was "significantly different from the surrounding lunar soil."

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