Would the flag it be visible via high powered telescope, and if so has anyone seen it?
2006-12-13 03:50:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There's no reason for it not to be there. The best telescopes we have (Hubble in this case) could resolve nothing smaller than a football stadium on the moon. So no, you can't look at the flag (or the lander).
2006-12-13 03:52:52 · answer #1 · answered by eri 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the flag the Apollo 11 astronauts planted on the moon IS still there and still standing -- since there's no wind on the moon, the flag had to be propped with braces so the field of stars and stripes is always visible. It cannot be seen via high powered telescope any more than small craters can be (or the Great Wall of China could be seen from space).
2006-12-13 04:00:15 · answer #2 · answered by ensign183 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No reason for the flags not to be there.
No telescope currently in existence has the resolving power to spot the 6 American flags on the moon. The Hubble, which is the best we have, can't even resolve the largest pieces of debris we left behind -- the bases of the lunar landers.
Hubble has an angular resolution of 0.01 arc-seconds -- which is the size of the image recorded on a singel pixel of the CCD cameras used to record the Hubble images. At the distance to the moon, that means that Hubble can se a spot no SMALLER than **50 feet** in diameter. Since the LEM is only about 20 feet in diameter, it is too small to be resolved by Hubble. And if you look at any of the pictures, the Flags left behind are WAY smaller than the LEM, so . . . .
However, I have seen the flags, by video when they were planted, and in the photos taken on the moon.
2006-12-13 06:56:20 · answer #3 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Not visible from Earth because we are looking down on them (there are several). That's a joke. Even the highest power telescopes cannot resolve anything that small at that distance. When we get back to the Moon we will probably consider the sites historical.
2006-12-13 04:00:02 · answer #4 · answered by Cirric 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It would still be on the moon......if we had really landed there. :) The moon landings were fake. Soon, China will have someone on the moon and he will look for our flag (I hope). If he doesn't find it, then we'll know the moon landings were fake.
PS I don't really believe what I just said, though many people do feel the moon landings were faked. Lots of interesting evidence though.
2006-12-13 04:15:59 · answer #5 · answered by vidigod 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
General Zod knocked it over in 'Superman 2', but Superman fixed it at the end of the film.
Just kidding... it should still be there, since there is no air or wind on the moon surface, there's nothing that should have moved it.
2006-12-13 03:58:30 · answer #6 · answered by Rob 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It should be. Since there is no weather or wind on the moon, supposedly there are still footprints from the first astronauts!
2006-12-13 03:54:35 · answer #7 · answered by B_U_T_FULL 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It should still be there. Maybe faded somewhat from almost 4 decades in the sun, but still there.
2006-12-13 07:15:11 · answer #8 · answered by namowal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where do you think it went?
2006-12-13 03:57:34 · answer #9 · answered by .G. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋