natural objects like the Himalayas OR artifical objects like huge constructions
2006-09-19 02:01:34 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The Great Wall of China is NOT visible from the Moon. Not at all! Someone (not someone who had been in space, mind you) once said, wrongly, that the Great Wall was the only manmade object visible from space, but that's not true. The great wall and many other man made objects can be seen by astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle and the ISS, but these are in low Earth orbit, 250-300 miles above the surface of Earth. The Moon is 240,000 miles away.
Know how big the Moon looks in our sky? Well, Earth would look 4 times larger as seen from the Moon (because Earth is 4 times larger than the Moon). That's not a whole lot, maybe the width of two fingers held at arm's length. Someone else used the analogy of standing 30 feet from a 12-inch diameter earth globe. That is correct.
2006-09-19 06:25:49 · answer #1 · answered by kris 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Continents, oceans and clouds are the only Earthly objects visible from the Moon without a telescope. Mountains, the pyramids and the great wall of China are far too small to see from the Moon.
2006-09-19 02:13:47 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Virtually nothing is visible from the moon. Think about what you can see when you look at the moon - all you can make out are a few very large craters hundreds or thousands of miles accross, and large scale features such as the darker 'seas.'
Similarly the only things you can make out on earth from the moon are the continents and oceans.
From Low Earth Orbit the Great Wall of China is almost impossible to see, although other man made objects such as airports, damns and rubish dumps can be made out.
2006-09-19 02:12:56 · answer #3 · answered by robcraine 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only really big objects like Oceans and Continents. I think that the Great Wall is visible from a few hundred miles up, not the Moon.
2006-09-19 02:09:42 · answer #4 · answered by rscanner 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mars will not appear as big as the Moon this August, or at any other time either. That bogus E-mail has been circulating ever since the historic close approach of Mars on August 27, 2003. But even then, Mars just looked like a bright star and not like the Moon. Mars never gets close enough to the Earth to look as big as the Moon.
2016-03-27 08:50:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the Himalayas are visible when there isn't a lot of cloud cover over them. You can even see the Great Wall of China too.
2006-09-19 03:53:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Great Wall of China. I think that's the only man made object you can see from space.
2006-09-19 02:09:29 · answer #7 · answered by jymsis 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You'll be able to make out cities at night, islands, deserts, large lakes, and snow line.
No manmade structure can be identified.
It's about the equivalent of standing 30 feet from a 1 foot diameter globe.
2006-09-19 02:12:48 · answer #8 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Great Wall of China
The Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai
The Palm Islands projects in Dubai (they are 3 of them now)
ofcourse all this is only what I have read about since I have never been on the moon yet.
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2006-09-19 03:09:18 · answer #9 · answered by cooldude 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
continents and oceans and maybe hurricanes if its big enough and skys are clear maybe the coral reef, mountian ranges ,great wall of china.Just look at the moon and see what you can see and then imagine standing on tthe moon looking back.
2006-09-19 02:15:43 · answer #10 · answered by vorlon 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋