{"id":429154,"date":"2026-01-22T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/429154\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:00:08","slug":"china-found-something-strange-on-far-side-of-moon-no-one-ever-saw-occur-naturally-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/429154\/","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":429155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,38657,224979,512,224978,21074,6397,224983,1451,224980,4935,224982,128,132,285,224981],"class_list":["post-429154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-change-5-mission","tag-change-6-mission","tag-china","tag-far-side-of-the-moon","tag-graphene","tag-ice-cores","tag-jilin-university","tag-lunar-soil","tag-micrometeorite-impacts","tag-moon","tag-nano-letters","tag-science","tag-solar-wind","tag-space","tag-sumio-iijima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}