Neil left a foot mark which was said to be found by other astronaut's.?

Question

How could this be possible because there are many natural forces that could destroy these prints such as meteorites,dust from the landing and launching of the appolo etc .Or is nasa making a fool of us.

Answer 1

Well, it happens I know an Apollo astronaut personally, and he doesn't seem like a fool to me. And I don't get the impression from him that NASA is trying to make a fool of anyone.
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Answer 2

No, NASA is not making a fool of you. People like Mr. Bart Sibrel are trying to, though. You can search his name if you like, on YouTube you can see Buzz Aldrin punching him.

Astronauts from later landings would not have seen the footprints as they landed a long way from the Apollo 11 site. Each of the six landing sites were different to get a good sample of various parts of the Moon.

While it is possible that rocket blast might have obscured some of the footprints close to the site of the module, prints further away would not have been disturbed much. A few prints might have been affected by small meteor strikes by now, but most of them will still be visible. Most of the meteors striking the Moon (and the Earth) are the size of grains of sand.

During the 1950s a party of British adventurers crossed the Sahara desert. At one point they found clear wheel tracks in clay soil. These turned out to have been made by a French expedition long before the Second World War. The tracks were made in the clay after rare light rain and were still visible after about 25 years. There is far more erosion in the Sahara desert than on the Moon.

Answer 3

I never heard anyone say that they'd found Armstrong's footprint. That said, I don't think there were any footprints very far from the landing place, and all the equipment should be right there, too.

And as far as natural forces, there would be a lot fewer on the moon than there are on Earth. Meteorites and dust, sure, but no wind, no rain, and no animals mean there would be far fewer natural forces to interfere with what was left behind.

And I don't think NASA is making a fool of us. Without the support of the American people, I think NASA would risk losing much of their funding. And the work they do is very valuable to those of us sitting here on the Big Blue Marble.

Answer 4

I don't know where you're coming from. There are no immediate forces of erosion on the Moon. There are micrometeor impacts, but these are insignificant, and major meteor impacts are extemely rare at a given site. And it sounds as though you think that the landing sites were revisited, which is not the case.

Apollo is one of the best-documented programs in human history. There is so much incontrovertible evidence that Apollo was real that no scientist (or any informed person) even questions the lunar landings. Will the average person really notice a scientific abnormality about the landings that the world's greatest scientific minds would miss? Of course not, because the Apollo landings were real.

I strongly recommend that you read my source to clarify any other misunderstandings you have about Apollo.

Answer 5

If it was said to be found by other astronauts, it was said by people who either have no idea what they are talking about, or are deliberately lying. Only one other astronaut saw Armstrong's footprints, and that was Buzz Aldrin, his teammate. All five of the other landings were many miles from the Apollo 11 site, with good reason. Tranquility base had already been explored, so there was no reason to go back. By the way, those footprints are still there, and will be for many milennia. There is VERY little erosion on the moon.

Where do people come up with this nonsense anyway?

Answer 6

If any of the other moon landings took place in the same area as Apollo 11, the astronauts would have found Armstrong's and Aldrin's footprints - maybe not the ones next to where the lander took off, but there were lots of others farther away. The frequency of meteorites is very low, and in the time span in question, they wouldn't have obliterated any of the footprints.

Answer 7

Firstly, none of the Apollo landings happened within hundreds of miles of any of the others.

Secondly, meteorites large enough to make a crater are rare. The dust from landing would have had no effect because they'd already landed, and there was little disturbance from liftoff because the module lifted off from base of the space craft, not from the ground. Even if it had lifted fully from the ground, there would be little effect because there's no air circulation to move the dust around.

Keep trying. Even if it was a hoax, don't you think a bunch of intelligent scientists would have seen the problems that you're so sure you're the first person in history to spot?

Answer 8

The moon does not have erosion like Earth does. That's why if you look at it through a telescope, you can see tens of thousands of craters, some of which are millions of years old and still quite visible. On Earth, such things are erased much more quickly, but on the moon, the only form of erosion is microscopic grains of dust that pelt the moon constantly -- so small that they would take millenia to erase anything. You may want to take an astronomy course; it's extremely interesting and this is something that would be covered in the coursework.

Answer 9

well weve only observed one meteorite that has ever hit the moon. and what are the chances that one would hit that foot print.

and the apollo launches didnt even cause a crater. with no atmosphere all of the energy is focused directly downward, not out at all.

Answer 10

Impossible------ since the landing sites are great distances from each other--------- I think what you heard was that the foot prints would stay visible for thousands of years barring a direct meteor hit on the landing site!