I have heard people say there was a conspiracy about the Apollo missions and we never went to the moon. The conspiracy theorists say it was all staged. Why cant anyone produce telescopic photos of the cars and things we left behind on the moon to prove them wrong? Is it too far away?? On the opposite side?? I would assume we have telescopes powerful enough and satelittes etc...
Why have I never seen photos of the artifacts we left behind on the moon taken from Earth? I know they left a car and a flag and some other stuff up there.....Can they be seen from Earth?
2007-09-02 20:46:35 · 4 answers · asked by perryinjax 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
You assume wrong. The diameter of the moon is the same as the distance across the continental US. The remainders of the launchers are the size of a small moving van. What makes you think they can be seen from a distance of three hundred thousand miles?
2007-09-02 21:53:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
>> I would assume we have telescopes powerful enough and satelittes etc... <<
A lot of people assume that, but it is a totally unjustified assumption. There is an inescapable link between the size of a telescope and the resolution that is possible to achieve. No single telescope on Earth is capable of resolving the items left on the Moon because at that distance they are too small to see. As it happens, it is not even practical to build a single instrument that can resolve those items from earth, as it would have to be too large to operate.
2007-09-02 21:04:14 · answer #2 · answered by Jason T 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
very good question the hubble scope can take pics of the moon ...and i tried that a few yrs ago with a very powerful scope and saw nothing ...i saw craters and huge rocks on the moon surface but no flag or the moon rover.....those are too small to bee seen if they are there....not even the hubble scope can zoom in on them since they are that small
u can wait till 2025 when the russians land on the moon they will confirm it ...in 18 yrs....
2007-09-02 20:56:20 · answer #3 · answered by ben d 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The telescopes aren't strong enough to zoom in that close on such small objects.
2007-09-02 20:56:18 · answer #4 · answered by Impact 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋