How can the Apollo 11 astronauts leave perfect footprints on the moon?

Question

In the Apollo 11 landing, one of the pictures shows a perfect footprint. How can this be if there’s no moister in the moon dust to hold the footprint?

Answer 1

Because the footprint was on earth in a soundstage.
Travel to the moon never happened.

Answer 2

There is no air on the moon. So, there's no air pressure to keep the soil from being compressed together when tread upon. I bet most of those footprints are still there.

And, for the hoax lovers ...

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 3

There is no atmosphere to get in between the dust grains, so they behave very much like baby powder does here. The pressure of the boot compresses the grains together, and since there are no gas molecules getting in the way, they stick together through molecular attraction. And since there is no wind or rain, there is nothing to disturb them.

Answer 4

The dust is very fine grained and the particles are jagged at a microscopic scale because there is no weathering to round them down like there is on Earth.

Answer 5

Maybe the grains stop each other from falling due to individual grain roughness? Lunar regolith is really weird stuff.
Also, gravity is less on the moon, the grains don't have as much incentive to collapse.

Answer 6

Well the moon doesnt have wind or rain or heat. no erosion on the moon, footprints last until the next asteroid hits it!

Answer 7

Much like the supposed face on Mars, I'm sure it will turn out to be nothing.

Answer 8

There is no atmosphere, hence no wind to blow them away.

There is, however, gravity, which holds the dust down.

Answer 9

It happens in sand dunes.

Without air or wind there is no erosion.

Foot prints are a key factor in catching criminals as any policeman will tell you!

Answer 10

THE DUST IS VERY FIND AND THERE IS NO WIND AND VERY LOW GRAVITY TO COLAPS THE PRINT.

TRI IT WITH FLOUR BEFORE ASKING STUPID QUESTIONS ON YAHOO.