{"id":296990,"date":"2026-01-22T04:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/296990\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T04:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:17:08","slug":"china-found-something-strange-on-far-side-of-moon-no-one-ever-saw-occur-naturally-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/296990\/","title":{"rendered":"China found something strange on far side of moon no one ever saw occur naturally before"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiny carbon nanotubes with walls just one atom thick found on the far side of the moon<\/a> have provided the first confirmed evidence that a material long thought to require sophisticated human engineering could also be produced naturally.<\/p>\n

Using high-resolution electron microscopes, a team from Jilin University in northeastern China detected the straw-shaped, ultra-thin tubes in samples collected by the mission.<\/p>\n

The researchers said the structures had probably formed under extreme conditions created jointly by micrometeorite impacts, solar wind exposure and ancient volcanic activity.<\/p>\n

Although multilayered nanotubes that formed naturally have been found on Earth as a result of natural phenomena such as forest fires or ice cores, there had been a long debate about whether single-layer carbon nanotubes could form naturally.<\/p>\n

Producing them in laboratories needed precisely controlled temperatures and catalysts, but the Chinese team\u2019s findings, published online in the journal Nano Letters last month, have settled the debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiny carbon nanotubes with walls just one atom thick found on the far side of the moon have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[103490,103494,381,18,147307,7360,147310,19,17,147312,58164,147308,10626,147311,133,28633,451,147309],"class_list":{"0":"post-296990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-change-5-mission","9":"tag-change-6-mission","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-far-side-of-the-moon","13":"tag-graphene","14":"tag-ice-cores","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jilin-university","18":"tag-lunar-soil","19":"tag-micrometeorite-impacts","20":"tag-moon","21":"tag-nano-letters","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-solar-wind","24":"tag-space","25":"tag-sumio-iijima"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115936824004322338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}