Can the great wall of China be viewed,by the naked eye,from the moon?

Answer 1

No, you can't even see it from orbit without a telescope.

Here's a link to the Snopes.com report on it:
http://www.snopes.com/science/greatwal.htm

Interesting reading.

I hope you enjoy it! :)

Answer 2

The answer is "NO".

You can not view the Great Wall of China by the naked eye from the moon.

Few years ago, China's astaunauts verified that they can not see the Great Wall of China with their naked eyes from the ShenDan Spaceship orbiting earth.

If the astaunauts couldn't see the Great Wall of China from their Spaceship, which is closer to Earth comparing to the Moon, then it is not possible for them to see it from the Moon.

Answer 3

No I thought it was true but disappointed to find out it wasn't on Snopes. They also gave a reason why, which I included.

From:www.snopes.com I took out what I could because I thought it was too long.

Claim: The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from the moon.

Status: False.

Origins: The claim that China's Great Wall is the only man-made object that can be seen from the moon with the naked eye is one of our more tenaciously incorrect "facts," a bit of erroneous speculation which was spawned decades before we had the means to demonstrate it true, and which continues to have currency despite having long since been proved false. Some less specific versions of the Great Wall claim maintain it is the only man-made object that can be seen from "space," but although the term "space" is rather non-specific, it is not difficult to show the Great Wall claim to be false for any reasonable definition of the term.

First of all, it's not the only object visible from that distance: NASA's Earth from Space photographic archive (particularly the Human Interactions section) shows that pictures taken from low orbit reveal human-built structures such as highways, airports, bridges, dams, and components of the Kennedy Space Center. Secondly, even though other objects are visible at this distance, according to Shuttle astronaut Jay Apt, the Great Wall is barely discernable, if not invisible:

We look for the Great Wall of China. Although we can see things as small as airport runways, the Great Wall seems to be made largely of materials that have the same color as the surrounding soil. Despite persistent stories that it can be seen from the moon, the Great Wall is almost invisible from only 180 miles up!

An object that can barely be seen from a height of 180 miles up is obviously not going to be visible from the moon (roughly 237,000 miles away), as confirmed by Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean:

The only thing you can see from the moon is a beautiful sphere, mostly white (clouds), some blue (ocean), patches of yellow (deserts), and every once in a while some green vegetation. No man-made object is visible on this scale. In fact, when first leaving earth's orbit and only a few thousand miles away, no man-made object is visible at that point either."

(The Great Wall of China can be discerned in radar images taken from space, but not in ordinary photographs.)



Last updated: 12 November 2001

Answer 4

Ripley's have faith It or not! sketch from might 1932 makes the declare that the wall is "the mightiest artwork of guy, the only one that should be seen to the human eye from the moon" and Richard Halliburton's 1938 e book 2d e book of Marvels makes a similar declare. not notably, no lunar astronaut has ever claimed he ought to work out the super Wall from the moon.

Answer 5

No. The wall is only about 20 feet wide (6 metres), the moon is 240,000 miles away. Scaling down, this is the equivalent of seeing a piece of cotton thread from 20 miles away.

It's a popular urban rumour, but false all the same.

Answer 6

Yes, if there is sunlight on that portion viewing from the moon... i mean the same way you see the spots on the moon from earth. This has been revealed in the national geographic channel that the only sculpture which can be seen from the moon is great wall of china like a micro line..............
lol

Answer 7

yes its true but nobody go to the moon.believe it.u ask why?

coz i see the video of that.u know the moon is big than a desert.in the video the surface of the moon is not wide and i see also in the pic of desert.the desert is wider.
they said that neil armstrong go to moon but didnt.its just the money.

Answer 8

Nope, too great of a distance, and too small of a wall.

Answer 9

yep....Th only building on earth that can. Not that i've seen it myself of course...but the information is usually used as an introduction in documenteries about the moon

Answer 10

Doubtful.