can you see the flag on the moon from the earth?

Answer 1

No. Even the Hubble space telescope would not be able to resolve anything smaller than a football field (i.e. a football field on the moon would show as a single pixel on Hubble camera).

Too bad, as it would help shut up all those crazy rumors about the moon landing being a hoax filmed in a studio somewhere. Although conspiracy theorists could still claim that it was planted just last week by a robot probe...

Answer 2

Everybody has answered in the negative and I cannot do otherwise. Even if we discount the rumour that the entire moon-landing was a sham show, in the context of the present level of knosledge it would be next to impossible to single out the flag on the moon.

Even the hare on the moon has to be discerned with great difficulty supplying mentally some lines missing from this distance.

May be when India's Manned Mission to Moon materalises it can obtain a photograph of the flag and then we can see the flag(unless some Pakistani papers also hoot down the Indian Mission as another shamp show)

Answer 3

No, there are no telescopes powerful enough to resolve the Moon Landers yet. But when the Large Binocular Telescope goes online, it might; and the 30-metre telescopes being cast now should be able to see them.

There is an observation that can be done base on the moon landing sites -- the mirror array, which has been used as a laser target to measure the distance to the Moon within a fraction of a millimetre.

To those who doubt the Moon landing happened, I refer you to the site maintained by the fellow that listened in from the Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope in England. He was hearing the convrsations with Houston as it was happening, and was plotting out the shifts in the carrier wave caused by the spacecraft's accleration. He made one of the most accurate plots of the trajectory anywhere. My question is, how could that have been faked more simply than sending a real spacecraft to the Moon?

I have noted that every single "expert" that condemns the lunar photographs and films invariably understands nothing about perspective, radiosity or the nature of materials in a vacuum.

Answer 4

The answer to your question is "NO"...we cannot see the flag on the Moon even with the most powerful land and orbital telescopes. However, on one of the Apollo Missions, the astronauts placed a large mirror array upon the surface of the Moon facing Earth, and here on Earth we transmit a Lazar beam that is targeted and reflected upon the mirror, in order to measure the exact distance of the Moon from the Earth...quite an amazing thing when you think about it.

Answer 5

No one can see it because there is no flag on the moon. The moon landings were a hoax planned by the United States government.

Answer 6

Yep, sure can. I went to the moon last night to find the right position, came home and there it was, plain as day! Nobody ever landed on the moon!!!!!! That was all fake, they figured that out a while back, those pictures were took in the desert at night. They showed the flag blowing also, there's no moving air on the moon!

Answer 7

Well, I do not thing you can see the flag. But, you can pick up reflective mirrors off the surface. Nasa use infrared red lasers to bounce them off the surface of the moon to calculate who knows what. I have seen bright flashed of light on the moon so what else might that be?

Answer 8

no the TELESCOPE hasn't been invented yet that could see a flag on the moon from earth.

Answer 9

No, you can't.

But we did leave a mirror (actually several reflecting prisms!) on the moon, and we have shined lasers from earth to the moon, and back, in order to measure the precise orbit of the moon.

Answer 10

No ground-based telescope would have that sort of resolution. There is too much interference from the atmosphere to see anything smaller than about 300 meters across. We couldn't even see the Eagle's landing gear.