Did we land on the Moon??, of course we did.....?

Question

But to silence all the sceptics why dont we just point one of the many powerfull Telescopes at the landing sites to see the remains of the landing modules, the Lunar rover etc, is this not pheasable??

Answer 1

There are many pages out on the web telling you the "moon landing was a fake". Here´s a page that explains some of the elements that people are sceptical about i.e the photography and the flying flag
http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/

With regard to the question about using, for example, the Hubble Telescope to have a look at the moon from what I can undertstand the items left on the moon are too small to be picked up by earth bound or space bound telescopes which essentially were made to look for planet size or bigger elements.

However here are some images taken from a telescope of Apollo 15 landing site.
http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/Clementine.htm

As to the larger question of whether the moon landing was a fake or not imagine trying to keep a secret between ,what, 20-30,000 people who worked on the Apollo mission. A little difficult one would think.

Answer 2

Ringed by footprints, sitting in the moondust, lies a 2-foot wide panel studded with 100 mirrors pointing at Earth: the "lunar laser ranging retroreflector array." Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong put it there on July 21, 1969, about an hour before the end of their final moonwalk. Thirty-five years later, it's the only Apollo science experiment still running.

University of Maryland physics professor Carroll Alley was the project's principal investigator during the Apollo years, and he follows its progress today. "Using these mirrors," explains Alley, "we can 'ping' the moon with laser pulses and measure the Earth-moon distance very precisely. This is a wonderful way to learn about the moon's orbit and to test theories of gravity."

Here's how it works: A laser pulse shoots out of a telescope on Earth, crosses the Earth-moon divide, and hits the array. Because the mirrors are "corner-cube reflectors," they send the pulse straight back where it came from. "It's like hitting a ball into the corner of a squash court," explains Alley. Back on Earth, telescopes intercept the returning pulse--"usually just a single photon," he marvels.
The round-trip travel time pinpoints the moon's distance with staggering precision: better than a few centimeters out of 385,000 km, typically.

Targeting the mirrors and catching their faint reflections is a challenge, but astronomers have been doing it for 35 years. A key observing site is the McDonald Observatory in Texas where a 0.7 meter telescope regularly pings reflectors in the Sea of Tranquility (Apollo 11), at Fra Mauro (Apollo 14) and Hadley Rille (Apollo 15), and, sometimes, in the Sea of Serenity. There's a set of mirrors there onboard the parked Soviet Lunokhud 2 moon rover--maybe the coolest-looking robot ever built.
:-)

Answer 3

As I have explained here many times before, even the best telescope currently made, the Hubble Space Telescope, cannot resolve objects as small as those we left behind on the surface of the moon.

Because of the design of the optics of the Hubble, the smallest object it can resolve is about the size of a football field, somewhere around fifty meters in radius. Since the largest piece of debris we left behind, the bottom half of the Lunar Excursion Module, is only about 5 meters in diameter, it covers far less than one single pixel in the CCD cameras the Hubble uses to collect images. The American Flags left behind are much smaller than the LEM, so there's no chance we could resolve them.

And even in the future, when we make a more powerful telescope (which would have to be about 30-50 meters in diameter to have the required resolution), then the nay-sayers and conspiracy theorists will, as mentioned before, only claim that the photos were altered.

"There is none so blind as he who refuses to see."

Answer 4

there is no telescope ever built that has that resolving power. But why bother? We can bounce a laser off the mirror left behind by Niel and Buzz anytime we want, but it still won't convince the nutters!

Answer 5

Sceptics would say that it's a set they are seeing and not the moon. Sceptics need something not to believe in.

Answer 6

If they could build a telescope powerful enough to take pictures of the moon landers just to satisfy the skeptics, they would just say it's a conspiracy theory, and the photos were shopped.

Answer 7

No telescopes have that level of resolution. And would do no good--the "skeptics" as you kindly clall them, would just claim it's faked.

These people are mentally ill--you cannot expect them to respond rationally.

Answer 8

Somebody already has and he couldnt locate any so called remnants of the so called landing .Probably because he wasnt pointing his telescope at Walt Disney (freemasonic) Studios!!!

Answer 9

I don't know, It would be nice to think so but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter, does it? We can still live and breathe after all.
Will we ever know for sure? I doubt it!

Answer 10

i can't see the foot prints with my telescope, but im sure it's there