{"id":251032,"date":"2026-01-22T03:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/251032\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T03:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:28:08","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\/il\/251032\/","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":251033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[133852,133848,1657,133847,373,133851,85,46,133854,32993,133849,8245,133853,141,21878,145,133850],"class_list":{"0":"post-251032","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-far-side-of-the-moon","12":"tag-graphene","13":"tag-ice-cores","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-jilin-university","17":"tag-lunar-soil","18":"tag-micrometeorite-impacts","19":"tag-moon","20":"tag-nano-letters","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-solar-wind","23":"tag-space","24":"tag-sumio-iijima"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}