I've heard the Hubble telescope is big enough but the moon is to bright and so much light could damage the telescope. But maybe some lunar orbiters photographed Apollo landing sites ?
2006-09-23 11:36:55 · 5 answers · asked by j.juszkiewicz 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There are no telescopes that powerful. However, when the astronauts were there they left reflectors that were carefully aligned towards Earth, so that we can shine a laser beam at them and see the reflection. By doing this and timing how long it takes the beam to travel back to Earth (traveling at the speed of light) we can calculate exactly how far away the Moon is. This is how we know that the Moon is actually moving farther away from Earth at a rate of about 4 cm per year.
2006-09-23 13:02:34 · answer #1 · answered by kris 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, Hubble Can image the Moon just fine, and has done (see the source), but it is WAY to small to see the Apollo stuff. The smallest thing on the Moon Hubble could see would be at lest 300 feet wide. There are ground based telescopes several times bigger than Hubble, but they are still too small to see the Apollo hardware, especially since they have the blurring effects of the atmosphere to deal with.
2006-09-23 18:45:24 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
there are ground based telescopes that can see the lander. plus you used to be able to talk with it if you had a ham radio and a text tone sender.
2006-09-23 18:38:20 · answer #3 · answered by gsschulte 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes they probably can I am not sure but they left a mirrior on there and they can reflect a laser from Earth
2006-09-23 20:58:35 · answer #4 · answered by hkyboy96 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if there was it would be pretty gay
2006-09-23 18:43:53 · answer #5 · answered by green day fan 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋