why dose the usa flag wave on the moon?

Question

there is no air in space so why in the video of the flag on the moon have the flag waveing. why cant u never see the flag from earth even with a telescope.

This video is allsome http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1138935117048624484

Answer 1

It was the movements on the surface by the astronauts and besides since then the flag eventually fell down!

Nightrider

Answer 2

It doesn't move. There's a wire in it supporting it, and the only time you see the flag actually waving is when someone is moving it. You can't see the flag with a telescope because the best telescope we have could barely make out a football field. And the flag is smaller than that.

Answer 3

The angular size of the flag, as seen from Earth, is about the same angular size as a quarter seen from a distance of 3000 miles (assuming a flag size of 1 meter and a rounded distance of 240000 miles). You're not going to even come close to seeing it with any telescope. The previous answers about the waving flag are also correct.

Answer 4

WHEN are you conspiracy nuts going to try reading the historical record?

The flag did not "wave;" it is suspended by a wire--when the astronauts stuck the flagpole in the lunar soil, it caused teh wire--and thus the flag--to vibrate.

And the only telescope that MIGHT be sensitive enough to make out the lunar landing sites is the Hubble. And astronomers have better things to do with a multi-billion dollar scientific instrument than cater to some crackpots' delusions.

Answer 5

The astronauts had tin foil in the flag. They purposely put 'bends' or 'waves' in the flag so it would be waving the stars and stripes for the whole world to see. We landed on the moon and the books in the libraries (and, of course, the internet) are good sources to learn about how we did it. Its fun to learn how it was done. Any question you have about it will be answered from the flag to the required thrust needed to get to the moon and everything else. Have fun learning about that great achievement.

Answer 6

It doesn't.... When they were trying to put it in the ground, they were having trouble so they started waving it a shaking it, which produced the movement you saw on the video... ... uh, duh
And when they were filming the separation, and liftoff of the LM, the rocket firing shook, and i think knocked over the flag... And the Flag is so tiny i don't think you could see it with even a really powerful telescope

And FYI, "dee wood" if you knew anything about astronomy, physics, or even had some sort of common sense... you would know that we did in fact go to the moon, and it wasn't filmed in some Hollywood studio... duh...

Answer 7

They put wires in the flag in anticipation of no wind
and as the only man-made structure that can be seen
from the moon is the really HUGE and LONG Great wall of
China how could you expext to see an iddy biddy flag from the moon

And no the EARTH is NOT FLAT

Answer 8

I was watching TV the day that flag was installed on the moon. The wind isn't making it wave, it was designed to be full open as if the wind were stretching it out. You see, the scientists knew there would be no wind and they didn't want the flag to just hang there, they wanted it to look strong and impressive.

Answer 9

The flag doesn't wave and you can't see it with the telescope may be because it situated on the other side opposed to earth's surface or the telescope you use is not powerful enough.

Answer 10

actually theres no more flag waving up there, cause the ascent engines of all lunar modules blew them away on liftoff.

for the time it was standing there it was held in place by a horizontal beam on its pole, and the observed waving was the result of some movement while it was placed.
since there is no athmosphere there's a reduced friction, so it looked like waving for an unusually long time

The landing sites are to small to be directly observed with a telescope.
For getting the necessary resolution one needs to build a telescope with the mirror the size of a football-field.
Even Hubble cannot show pictures cause its just a question of wavelength and mirror-size.

Answer 11

It waves in the video taken from the top of the lander as it took off to rejoin the lunar orbiter. The rocket thrust kicked up dust and made the flag wave.