why couldn't we see the stars on the moon?

Question

i doo belive we did actually land there and i was wondering why they couldn't see them

Answer 1

1) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.

Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean
Apollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>
Apollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell
Apollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin
Apollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke
Apollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt


2) Why haven't we been back?

a) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.

b) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary objective, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't. Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.

c) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?


3) What about the Van Allen radiation belts? Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?

The existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos. Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA.

The radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong. You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness. And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection. "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."

"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation." When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.


4) The U.S. government scammed everyone?

In 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.

If six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not just one moon landing, but six of them!


5) What about the USSR?

Even if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.


6) Why does the flag shake? Where are the stars? Who took the video of Neil Armstrong?

Take a look at the first two websites listed below. They deal well with all of the technical questions.


7) Finally, please tell us what you would accept as definitive evidence that the six moon landings were real. Is there anything?

Answer 2

Go to your bathroom window the next time you wake up in the middle of the night. (or anytime you've been in complete darkness for at least half an hour)

Before you turn on *any* lights open the window and screen and look out.

What do you see? Stars, right?
You might have some artificial skyglow but surely you can see at least a few stars?


Now turn on the light without looking at it. Keep your eye on the window. (have someone turn it on for you if that's not possible)


What do you see now?

Now turn off the light, in fact, look into it first. What do you see out the window now? Wait a few minutes.


So how could you possibly expect anyone to see stars on the moon with a lightbulb on, much less in full sunlight?

How bright does *your* lightbulb appear in the sunlight?

Now it becomes obvious, right.






If you live in or near a city then you know how bright the clouds can be from reflected light pollution.
Have you ever tried seeing stars through the holes on a mostly cloudy night?
Well try the bathroom window thing again on a cloudy night. You'll see that the clouds look almost dark when the lightbulb's on. And they'll become bright again with the light off.




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Answer 3

If you were on the moon, you would see the stars - actually much brighter and clearer than on earth. You would have no atmosphere and pollution or other light to muddy up the view.

I assume you are referring to the photos taken of the moon landings? The bright surface and the equally bright, reflective spacesuits required a quick exposure to detail the brightest objects under the lighting conditions - otherwise the picture would have been overexposed by the objects. The stars in the background simply weren't bright enough to expose the film under these settings.

Answer 4

The film used was very special and had to endure the rigors of temperature in space. The high contrast of the light environment and the low-sensitivity film kept the faint stars from showing up.

Answer 5

The astronauts could see them, just like we can on Earth. The reason none appeared in photographs is because it takes at least a ten second exposure for the brightest stars to appear on film. They were using snapshots when they took the pictures.

Answer 6

For the same reason that you can't see them in a bright city, the contrast between the bright ground reflecting the sun's light and the relative darkness of the stars don't allow you to see them. Hope that helps!

Answer 7

The astronauts could see them, but they didn't show on the photographs because they were to faint compared to the flash they used when taking the photos.