It would certainly quiet the conspiracy theroists who insist the moon landing was filmed on earth.
2006-12-12 09:21:55 · 11 answers · asked by Jake M 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Too small to see with an Earth based telescope. We do have mirrors up there that we beam lasers off to detect how far and fast the moon is moving away from the Earth, but that doesn't make them happy either.
2006-12-12 09:25:41 · answer #1 · answered by Michael B 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Hubble is by no skill pointed on the Moon because it ought to fry the cameras. save in ideas, it may see issues as a lot as 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 situations dimmer than the Moon (40 4 magnitudes). No kidding. next, the failings human beings left on the Moon are so tiny compared to their distance (<=0.01 arc-sec) that they are next to not plausible to ensure. save in ideas, the Moon is a PLANET. that is so vast that if it were going around the solar somewhat than Earth it will be a planet. Do you ever look at a globe and picture, i am going to ensure device sheds and persons!? The Hubble can in elementary words see such far flung galaxies because they have the brightness of billions upon billions of billions of stars! that is a minimum of a sextillion situations brighter than the moon. even with those limitations, i imagine I once suggested in Sky & Telescope mag the in elementary words guy-made merchandise on Moon seen from Earth. They used a large telescope, and probably an rather short publicity, and they had to understand precisely the position it replaced into to even discover the dang element. even though it confirmed between the Apollo landers. It appears like a tiny black speck of sand which will become a fuzzy gray blob interior the magnified inset. this is it, this is all you will discover. this is not even the lander, although this is lengthy shadow interior the low solar. that is so borderline in shown truth that the different 5 Apollo landers are literally not plausible to be considered. The publicity had to be truly short (measured in microseconds) or otherwise the picture must be blurry or maybe blind the digital camera. ultimately, i have considered the Flat Earth Society information superhighway website, no matter if or not they *ought to* take truly nice pictures that tutor more advantageous than a dot then each and each and every of the paranoid troublesome-center conspiracists will right now cry fake and it ought to do not some thing to cajole such deludeds. you ought to be kindof kooky already to believe |each and everything's| a conspiracy.
2016-11-30 12:06:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually apollos 11 and 14 left reflectors on the moon. We can shine a laser on the moon and see the reflections in telescopes. I can't find a reference right now, but I believe it's possible to do this with "good amateur" quality instruments (surplus laser tubes and an 12" or so telescope.) But skeptics will just say the reflector was put there by an unmanned probe (in fact there are other reflectors that were put there by Russian unmanned craft.)
2006-12-12 10:03:20 · answer #3 · answered by KimballKinnison 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The moon is about 250,000 miles away. No telescope is strong enough to view anything as small as the rover. Some nuts would say the telescope pictures were fake too.
2006-12-12 09:26:26 · answer #4 · answered by Vinegar Taster 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There is no "debate" about whether or not men from Earth have landed on the Moon. What there is are countless people who are either eager to believe ANY half-baked and flawed proofs that we didn't land there or simply don't have the knowledge to understand the proof that we did.
2006-12-12 10:05:33 · answer #5 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The lunar excursion vehicles (LEVs) and the remaining (lower) halves of the landing modules are far to small to be picked up on telescopes.
2006-12-12 09:26:16 · answer #6 · answered by LoneStar 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they should send a rover to find the lander and the moon car,esspeccially if we are going back to the Moon.
2006-12-12 09:43:56 · answer #7 · answered by hkyboy96 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would I spend one dime trying to convinse these idiots of something we all know happened. And not just once but half a dozen times.
I was there when Apollo 11 took off.
2006-12-12 09:34:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Conspiracy theorists will claim that the telescope images were somehow faked. You cannot convince paranoid people.
2006-12-12 09:27:27 · answer #9 · answered by Randy G 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
To see something so small a quarter of a million miles away is just not possible.
2006-12-12 09:36:52 · answer #10 · answered by Old Cynic 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋