How come with all of our powerful telescopes and satellites we can not see even digitally enhanced photographs of what was "left behind"?
2006-11-28 13:33:59 · 9 answers · asked by cabuckley3 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
because it is pretty small.However some photos show patterns from the exhaust wash from Apollo 14
2006-11-28 13:35:51 · answer #1 · answered by Paul I 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Hubble Telescope has the best chance of seeing the stuff we left on the Moon of any telescope in human existence.
However, the resolution of the Hubble -- 0.1 arc-second -- means that the smallest object it can resolve in a pixel on the CCD cameras used to capture the photos is ~50 feet in diameter.
Since the largest object we left on the moon -- the base of the LEM -- is only about 14 feet in diameter, it doesn't come even close to being resolvable.
When we build a telescope about 10 times the diameter of Hubble (~30 meters), we should be able to resolve the lunar leftovers.
2006-11-29 01:24:02 · answer #2 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the "moon" was a sound stage built out at Area 51.
At least that's what a lot of people think.
And, while I'm not one who thinks that. I certainly wonder about it. It does seem a little odd that in 1969 we landed there and didn't build a McDonalds or a Starbucks.
The Japanese, they say, are sending a mission to map/photograph the surface close up which should show the sites. I'm not sure if this is true either though.
It also seems odd that after so many missions the lunar module never misfired and left those guys standing there looking under the hood.
2006-11-28 13:43:39 · answer #3 · answered by Yahoo A 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hi. The largest piece of left behind stuff was the LEM base. We could see it if we had an extremely large telescope with a high enough resolution, but we don't have the technology yet to build one.
2006-11-28 13:37:38 · answer #4 · answered by Cirric 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can participate in the sim package of clean environments.
The who, who hootee owl always says on the fleet news, So
you cannot pollute, trashing the planets and moons is mute.
Actual photographs show me picking up the recyclable diotoles
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2006-11-28 13:47:48 · answer #5 · answered by mtvtoni 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not even the Hubble Space Telescope can resolve objects that small. It would have to be 100 times larger to do so.
2006-11-29 00:13:39 · answer #6 · answered by Otis F 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, they left some good stuff, too, like cameras, I wonder how much that stuff is worth? More than relics from the Titanic, I bet, and that would pay for someone to go get it back (if it's really there! Hahaha)
2006-11-28 13:36:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The government refrains from letting the general public view such images.
Many of the items were left in the far side of the moon, so we cannot actually photograph them.
2006-11-28 13:36:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why would we wanna?
2006-11-28 13:35:38 · answer #9 · answered by Sandy 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋