Tiny carbon nanotubes with walls just one atom thick found on the far side of the moon have provided the first confirmed evidence that a material long thought to require sophisticated human engineering could also be produced naturally.
They were found in rocks collected by China’s 2024 Chang’e-6 mission, the first probe to land on the far side of the moon and bring samples back to Earth.
Using high-resolution electron microscopes, a team from Jilin University in northeastern China detected the...
China found something strange on far side of moon no one ever saw occur naturally before
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