2006-08-14 11:10:40 · 13 answers · asked by jimmy V 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
because they can't see into the studio from there.
2006-08-14 11:17:15 · answer #1 · answered by jeff s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lunar lander/rover is too tiny to be seen in a telescope that is on or near Earth. As Grover says, the mirrors left behind can still be seen reflecting laser beams aimed at them from Earth.
2006-08-14 11:14:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lunar lander is only 5 feet wide. No ground or space telescope has the resolution to take a decent picture. Photos have been taken from orbiting spacecraft, though they just look like shadows.
2006-08-14 11:35:25 · answer #3 · answered by April C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the devices left on the moon are too small even for the Hubble Space Telescope to resolve them.
"While Hubble wasn't specifically designed to look at the Moon – it only has the resolution of a football field for an object so close ..."
Quoted from:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/051019_hubble_moon.html
The moon is approximately 1/4 million miles away. To see anything as small as the landers would require a much bigger telescope than Hubble.
2006-08-14 12:05:39 · answer #4 · answered by Jay T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no telescope large enough to zoom in close enough on a small object like that. From earth, it would be too fuzzy looking, due to the heat waves in the earth's atmosphere.
2006-08-14 11:16:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because its too far away. You can see the Hubble Telescope's closest pictures of Mars here:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2003/22/image/
2006-08-14 11:16:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply because no telescope yet has the resolving power needed to see those things.
2006-08-14 11:15:57 · answer #7 · answered by kris 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too far!
Best they did was to leave a mirror for bouncing a laser beam from earth.
2006-08-14 11:14:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space aliens towed them away for parking in a restricted zone.
2006-08-14 14:38:29 · answer #9 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, right, you try to get a photograph of something the size of a car 240,000 miles away that is moving 1,000 miles an hour, while you are also moving 1,000 miles an hour the opposite direction.
2006-08-14 12:00:17 · answer #10 · answered by iberius 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have friends that are astronomers that have found them and the mirror that MacDonald's observatory shoots lasers at.
2006-08-14 11:15:26 · answer #11 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋