If the U.S.has gone to the moon, why do they not use telescopes to show us the things left behind?

Question

Seems it would be easy, and make all questions disappear if they would just show the famous American flag that was left behind.

Answer 1

Because the biggest telescopes in the world, including the Hubble Space Telescope, are way, way too small to see things that small on the Moon.

Answer 2

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the moon landings took place, the American people were more intelligent and better educated than they are now. It would never have occurred to the engineers and managers at NASA that 35 years later a bunch of brainless dolts would be questioning the simple facts of history, reported contemporaneously and coherently.

I suspect if they had known that 37 idiots per day would be posting the question "did we really go to that there moon?" on Yahoo! answers, they would have taken measures to make the landing sites more visible in some way.

As it stands, the objects we left on the moon are too small to be seen by telescopes from earth. However, there are laser reflectors, the exact locations of which are widely known, that were left there by our astronauts all those chilly years ago. You can find all kinds of information in libraries and on the internet about the frequent experiments that are done using those reflectors, which serve as absolute proof that we were there.

Sorry we can't see the flag. But it's there. It's ours. It's real.

Answer 3

The most powerful telescopes in the world can only resolve objects about 150 meters across on the moon, so there is no way to see any of the equipment left on the moon.

There are, however, retroreflectors left on the moon by the astronauts, and these are used all the time to reflect laser signals in order to measure the distance to the moon. In other words, if you aim a powerful laser at the moon, you will see a reflected laser pulse only from the landing sites where there are retroreflectors, and not from anywhere else. The equipment needed to do this experiment is not expensive---maybe $100,000, and so this experiment is done all the time by a lot of people. Somehow this does not persuade the conspiracy nuts.

Answer 4

There is no telescope that is anywhere nearly powerful enough to show such small items at such a distance. No one needs to prove such things anyhow. No questions exist in the minds of logical people about whether the Moon landing was faked or not. It is only conspiracy lovers who believe such nonsense, and no one sensible cares what fools believe. Even if a telescope could show such things, the fools would say that was faked too. Why bother telling them anything when they are going to believe whatever they want to believe regardless of how much evidence there is against it. They must be people brainwashed into believing other weird stuff that they cannot prove, e.g. religion.

Answer 5

It takes much less energy, planning, technology and resources to land a space module on the moon, than it does to deploy ground forces in Iraq.

We've seen the latter happen, twice in the last decade and a half; why wouldn't the former be possible?

Check this out:

The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384401 kilometres (238857 mi).

To escape the Earth's gravity pull, spacecraft need to travel at 11.2 km/s, which the shuttles routinely do.

Since there is zero resistence (i.e., no atmosphere in between), the initial impulse would send the craft straight to the surface of the moon, at a speed of 35,579 feet per second.

To escape the Moon's gravity pull the velocity needed is 2.4 km/s (less than 100 mph, which you can get on a used SUV in seconds)

An EVA is far riskier and more dificult to pull than it is to land on the moon, even bringing back the shuttle takes lots more of logistics and energy.

Answer 6

The people who went to the moon landed on the side that is not reflecting the sun, aka the side we can't see from earth. The moon does not "rotate" like earth does, so we only see 1/2 of the moon from earth. Even the best telescope can't see through the moon

Answer 7

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