Have we taken a picture of the American flag on the moon since landing there?

Question

Have we taken any pictures of the flag on the moon with like the hubble telescope or anything since landing there? If not, can anyone explain why we haven't since we easily have the technology. Especially, since we can take pictures of things thousands of light years away. Why not the landing site of our own moon to prove to everyone we did?

Answer 1

Everyone saw the shuttle go up in space but every one thinks the moon landing was fake I don't get it. But it's a good question It'd be a pretty cool picture though.

Answer 2

No telescope can take a picture of the flag on the moon. This includes the Hubble Space Telescope. The flag is simply too small. Remember, the Hubble Space Telescope takes photos of objects that are very far away *but* they're light years across. The other five manned missions to the moon each landed at a different place on the moon far away from where the Apollo 11 flag was placed.

Answer 3

It would take a telescope a kilometer in diameter (1000 meters) to be able to resolve something that small on the moon. The largest telescopes we have are 10 meters wide (a mere 1% of that). The hubble is only 2.4 meters wide. Even if it was big enough, the moon would be far too bright and would damage the sensitive camera equipment on the Hubble. This is why there has never been any photos of the moon taken by Hubble.

Answer 4

No ground based telescope would be able to make out something the size of a flag from the distance to the moon simply because the atmosphere of the earth smudges the images. Even the Hubble telescope (which is above the atmosphere) could not resolve the flag at that distance. At the distance to the moon, the Hubble scope can resolve things the size of a football field (approximately). The things we see that are thousands (to billions) of light years away are very large things! A flag is very, very small in astronomical terms.

Answer 5

The things we take pictures of thousands of light years away are absolutely huge, and are very bright objects against a dark background. Consider an aeroplane flying above you in the sky. If you look up at it during the day you can't see the lightbulbs on the wings and fuselage, but you can see the lights when it's dark very clearly.

The flag is too small and too far away to be seen. I can see a ferry on the channel ten miles away using binoculars, but I can't see an ant crawling up the wall on the other side of the road using those same binoculars.

In order to image the flag on the Moon you would need a very god orbiting satellite, and you'd need to get it to lunar orbit. That would cost money, and 'to take pictures of the Apollo landing sites to prove to a vocal and ignorant minority that we went' is not going to win you a funding arrangement.

Consider also that the people who think Apollo was faked already discount around 20,000 photographs, hours of film and video, documentation of the hardware development, the analysis of the lunar samples retruned and the personal testimonies of the people involved as evidence. Why would a few extra pictures now swing them to the reality of Apollo?

Answer 6

I'm not sure but I think taking a picture of the flag may be beyond the abilities of Hubble. It would also be pointless because people some people would still just claim it was a fake.

Answer 7

Because no one wishes to fund such project to prove that conspiracy theories are wrong. To take pictures of the moon module on its surface, we have to put a camera mounted on an orbiter, the Hubble can't do that.

Answer 8

good question. i have no idea. some ppl believe that that they landed on the moon was a lie and the picture was fake. but i dont know..