Is it possible to see the Moon Landing site(s)?

Question

There's a number of people saying No-one landed on the Moon, that it was all faked.
I was born in 1970, so don't remember it at all (of course).
With an observatory telescope could you actaully see the moon landing site(s)?

I believe it happened, Just think it would be really cool to be able to check it out.

Answer 1

No, no telescope has fine enough optics to see the material left behind. Here is the answer as to whether the Hubble telescope could see the objects: "No, Hubble cannot take photos of the Apollo landing sites.

"An object on the Moon 4 meters (4.37 yards) across, viewed from HST, would be about 0.002 arcsec in size. The highest resolution instrument currently on HST is the Advanced Camera for Surveys at 0.03 arcsec. So anything we left on the Moon cannot be resolved in any HST image. It would just appear as a dot. "

However, the Apollo 11 crew left on the moon a laser reflector which is used to take measurements of the Moon's rotation. For a wonderful website on the reflector see the website below:

Answer 2

Yes, you can see the landing sites -- they were all on the face of the moon that we can see every night. In fact, there are websites which show photos of the moon with the landing sites superimposed -- check them out here:

http://community.weber.edu/planetarium/events/original/15%20moon%20landing%20sites.jpg

http://onward.justia.com/seo-images/20050720/moon.gif

http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/Moon_Landings.jpg

What you CAN'T see is any of the stuff we left behind -- at least not optically. There is no telescope in the word with the resolving power to see the flagpole (1 inch diameter) from ¼ million miles away, nor can they see the bottom half of the LEM (about 5-7 meters in diameter). Not even the Hubble Space Telescope can do that.

Answer 3

Check out the answers to the question at the link below. The second or third guy from the bottom said that he watched the moon landings through a telescope.

Answer 4

Now wait a minute! With all the technology at our disposal and the National Security Agency's ability to read below 3.5 meter resolution--that's a pin on a lapel jacket--we can't see the LEM's, rovers and man-made debris on the moon?! Let me ask you this. If we now have proposals by NASA and our government to go back to the moon, then why hasn't NASA and our science community engaged in a public relations campaign showing our Apollo artifacts on the moon? Don't you think this would better serve the public to get behind this "expensive" endeavor? Why hasn't NASA put out pictures of post Apollo landing sites using satellites that orbit the moon, like the ones orbiting the earth, showing with what I stated above. Don't you think NASA would have thought about this well before its declaration of going back to the moon, considering that the Apollo program was scrapped because it was too expensive to begin with?

That dog don't hunt!!!!!!!

Answer 5

No... You need a scope with a resolving power able to pick out objects about 20 feet across from 240,000 miles - it's the equivalent of a mirror about 1.5 times the size of a football field.

Maybe soon; But, I'm not sure what it would prove - if you don't believe the photos from the astronauts *on the moon* then, why would you trust grainy, fuzzy pictures taken by the *same* people today....?

Answer 6

I have often wondered that myself. They have the Hubble telescope and you would think they could zero in on a small part of the moon and take a few pics of the flags and lower half of lunar module. It ought to be possible. Maybe you should write NASA and ask.

BTW, I remember where I was in 1969 when I was watching Neil Armstrong take those first few steps. Wow!

Answer 7

properly, the two you pick a telescope approximately as enormous as a soccer container, or you're able to desire to take that telescope and placed it lots closer to the Moon. Arizona State college had the possibility to try this whilst they joined the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter project.

Answer 8

No it's not possible to see the sites. Ground telescopes simply lack the resolution to see that closely, and space-based telescopes such as the Hubble are not configured or designed for that sort of a task.

Skeptics like to dream up conspiracy theories, but for all of their claims, there are counter-claims and the such.

http://moon.google.com/

Answer 9

No. You can't resolve something that small at at quarter of a million miles but there is a satellite headed toward the sites in a few years that should be able to photo them.

Answer 10

It would seem that it is possible with certain powerful telescopes on earth (like ones they search for other planets in other solar systems with). I think that it would just be a waste of valuable telescope time.