Scientists are in contact with some of the equipment left there. The seismographs register moon quakes.
In 1975 the seismographs recorded the impacts of dozens of large (1 tonne) meteorites that hit the moon in a swarm.
2007-01-15 11:24:57
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answered by nick s 6
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Yes. Tthe astronauts set up remote-controlled cameras on the Moon. They even made a video of their lander taking off. You can watch the video at the first source link. These videos show the bottom half of the lander being left behind. Another piece of equipment left by the astronauts was specifically designed to be seen from the Earth. It had a bunch of mirrors on it to bounce laser beams back to Earth. By seeing how long it took for laser beams to go from the Earth to the Moon and back, scientists measured the distance to the Moon to the nearest inch or so. The Apollo astronauts did photograph the surface of the Moon from lunar orbit and see the equipment on the surface. But the pictures are not that good since they didn't have a powerful enough camera to make out much detail. You can see one picture taken by the Apollo 17 crew at the first source link. The left behind equipment is just a small dot! When the Lunar Recconaissance Orbiter is sent to the Moon in 2008 it will have powerful enough cameras to show more details. Interestingly, the latest Mars orbiter has taken pictures of many of the landers and rovers on the surface of Mars - the second source link will get you started.
2007-01-15 20:15:49
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answered by RocketMan 1
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No. The best telescopes can only resolve areas on the moon the size of a football field, and nothing we left behind is anywhere near that big. However, when we had the mars global orbital, we DID take pictures of the mars rovers on the surface.
2007-01-15 19:17:55
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answered by eri 7
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We have pictures of some of them from spacecraft orbiting the moon since the landings.
But you can't see them with a telescope from earth (or the Hubble in space) -- they're too small for us to resolve. Remember, the moon is a long way away...and the things we left behind are pretty small.
2007-01-15 19:41:56
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't think so. there have been no missions since Apollo 17(?) and no earth based or earth orbiting telescopes can resolve objects that small that far away. We have left reflectors on the surface which we bound laser beams off of to measure the lunar distance if that counts.
2007-01-16 00:18:59
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answered by ZeedoT 3
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Yes. Pictures have been taken later of modules and devices left behind on earlier trips. I believe that recently pictures were taken from earth or from earth orbit of something left on the moon.
2007-01-15 19:09:44
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answered by Mike1942f 7
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Too see them, you need at least 70 meters of telescope aperture. But the largest at the moment is 10 meters which is about 4x bigger than HST.
Hope that helps!
2007-01-15 19:25:45
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answered by Ibanez TS9 2
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No. and I don't think anybody ever will! Because I belive that nobody has ever landed on the moon!
2007-01-15 19:35:27
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answered by AD 4
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No.
2007-01-15 19:09:01
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answered by robert m 7
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