is there a picture of the moon buggy taken through a telescope?

Question

The debate continues. Was the moon landing faked? What would settle this issue is a telescopic photo showing the moon buggy where the astronauts left it on the moon. If the moon buggy is there, obviously we went to the moon and this debate would be settled.

Answer 1

Firstly, everyone's right in saying no instrument is big enough to photograph something that size on the moon. The distance across the face of the moon is the same as across the 48 mainland states. The landers are the size of a pick-up truck. And they're 240,000 miles away.

Secondly, the people who research the moon don't care if other people who research themselves don't believe the moon landings happened. It isn't their problem.

Answer 2

1: It is IMPOSSIBLE to take a picture of the hardware left on the Moon through a telescope. The largest items are a few feet across, and they are 240 THOUSAND miles away. That's like trying to see an ant a mile away with a pair of binoculars. The phyiscal and unavoidable limitations of optical instruments mean that it is not even practical to build a telescope that could see the artifacts on the Moon.

2: Apollo is a matter of historical record. There are already tens of thousands of photographs, hours and hours of video and film, millions of pages of documents. You can actually trace the entire development of the program from conception to completion via paperwork, film, photographs and even hardware. There were hundreds of different companies involved in the project, including such big names as Boeing, IBM, North American Aviation, Grumman Aircraft, etc. Lunar samples totalling hundreds of kilograms have been grought back, and geologists all over the world agree that they came from the Moon, that they were not meteorites, and that they could not have been collected by unmanned probes (probes for which there is not one single shred of evidence anyway, by the way). The evidence for Apollo being real is overwhelming. Those who already discount all that as faked are not going to be convinced by one picture taken forty years after the event.

The debate about the authenticity of Apollo only exists for those who either don't understand or don't want to understand what evidence is already available and how to analyse it.

Answer 3

There is no "debate." The moon landings were not faked. And there are no pictures via telescope. That would take a lot of time using an extremely powerful telescope. No one is going to waste the time or money to cater to the delusional fantasies of some nuts.

Answer 4

Alas, the debate would not be settled. People would continue to argue the moon landing was faked, 9/11 was faked, Elvis Presley's death was faked, the holocaust was faked, Bush is a really intelligent guy, etc etc.
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Answer 5

The debate continues because you people are, how do I put this....slow. You have no problem understanding the science of cosmic radiation and how that could possibly effect astronauts passing through the Van Allen radiation belt, yet landing a craft on another surface is too hard to conceive. You people are what is Un-Believable...

Answer 6

No one is going to waste valuable telescope time to cater to the delusions of tin foil rednecks. Get over it, the scientific community doesn't give a rat's **** about what morons believe or don't believe.
Cretins are just not that important.

Answer 7

The problem is that even if it became possible those who don't believe still wouldn't. They'd claim the picture was faked. They don't want to believe that perhaps the government is telling the truth because it might mess up their perfect little world.