What's the 'Mystery Hut' on the moon?

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Late-breaking report from planetary correspondent J S DeMar,(c)2021....

The Martian “hut”, first discovered by a Chinese rover, is actually the remnants of the final Martian launch platform, built when life on the planet was dying from a runaway virus[1]. The spaceship was a bureaucratic nightmare, never finished before the apocalypse. It was optimistically called the Mars Save Life System (Mars SLS). In the meantime, a couple of Martian trillionites developed their own massive launch vehicles. One of them invented brain chips and stayed stoned all day while the company collapsed. The other died when one of his package delivery drones mistook his shiny head for a landing pad. As a final, last-ditch "what-do-we-have-to-lose" effort, a few entrepreneurial Martians built a centrifugal launch system (never thinking it would actually work, simply enjoying the never-ending funding streams while Mars collapsed). In the end, all of the spun-up volunteers were compressed by what was left of the Martian atmosphere, achieving escape velocity in the form of carbonaceous chondrites[2]. Eventually, many of these entered the Earth's atmosphere about 3.5 billion years ago[3], preserving a variety of Martian biological materials. They are now commonly known as Martian meteorites[4] and are likely the source of life on our planet.[5]

[1] "COVID-19 came to Earth aboard a space rock".
[2] "Mars as the parent body of the CI carbonaceous chondrites and implications for Mars biological and climatic history".
[3] "Life on Earth".
[4] "What Martian Meteorites Reveal About the Interior and Surface of Mars".
[5] "Earth Life Likely Came from Mars, Study Suggests".
 
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Crashed Raptor from BSG. When the Galactica completed it's final jump in the episode Daybreak, we see the flight pods twitching about when the lateral spars broke. Multiple ships can be seen falling out. One of them crashed more or less intact on the lunar surface, complete with a functioning FTL drive, 150,000 years ago. There it awaits us, along with our destiny.

--From my reboot treatment, "Galactica's Children."
 
IF ONLY, some day, hopefully not too far into the future, there could be a.....solar powered autonomous vehicle, with camera, that could “rove” over to that to get close-up views and check it out. How many years/decades will it take to have that capability?

OH.

This would be sort of like on Apollo-17, after accidentally kicking up that orange soil, to just take one poor pic, and move on. Not actually digging it up to explore it, take samples of the soil, many color pics with gnomon (Color reference), and so forth, but instead just move on to the next pre-planned thing without bothering to explore an unexpected find.
 
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