Looking at the moon with the Hubble telescope

[Captain_Blythe]

I was wondering how close you could look at our moon with the Hubble telescope? Could they see the American flag that was put there? If so that would prove to the skeptics that say they never landed on the moon that they actually did.

[D H]

No. The Hubble doesn't have the resolution. From http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/11jul_lroc.htm

And why haven't we photographed them? There are six landing sites scattered across the Moon. They always face Earth' date=' always in plain view. Surely the Hubble Space Telescope could photograph the rovers and other things astronauts left behind. Right?

 

Wrong. Not even Hubble can do it. The Moon is 384,400 km away. At that distance, the smallest things Hubble can distinguish are about 60 meters wide. The biggest piece of left-behind Apollo equipment is only 9 meters across and thus smaller than a single pixel in a Hubble image.

 

Better pictures are coming. In 2008 NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will carry a powerful modern camera into low orbit over the Moon's surface. Its primary mission is not to photograph old Apollo landing sites, but it will photograph them, many times, providing the first recognizable images of Apollo relics since 1972.[/quote']

 

There is tons of evidence that we did go to the Moon, and every bit of evidence that we didn't has been thoroughly debunked. Has this stopped the nay-sayers? No.

 

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, to be launched in a month or so, will take pictures of the Apollo landing sites (along with all of the rest of the Moon). Will pictures of the equipment left behind with the Apollo missions stop the nay-sayers? No.

[Sisyphus]

Well clearly those pictures will also be faked! As well the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter itself. Also, the Moon is fake.

[Gag Me]

photoshop is a demon, that darn photo editer.

The foreign exchange student from Russia at our school litterally believes that America totally faked the moon landing because we were jealous xD

 

says the country that was compteing with us for who had the better smarts.

 

hmmmm, isn`t competing a CAPATALIST thing?

darn russians >____>

[Janus]

I was wondering how close you could look at our moon with the Hubble telescope? Could they see the American flag that was put there? If so that would prove to the skeptics that say they never landed on the moon that they actually did.

 

As pointed out, the Hubble doesn't have the resolution, and besides, its optics aren't designed to image something that close and bright.

 

But even if it could and did produce such images, the Moon hoaxsters would just claim that those images were faked. I honestly believe that you could personally fly some of them to the Moon and show them them the landing sites, and they would claim that it was faked; that they had been hypnotized or something.

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photoshop is a demon, that darn photo editer.

The foreign exchange student from Russia at our school litterally believes that America totally faked the moon landing because we were jealous xD

 

says the country that was compteing with us for who had the better smarts.

 

hmmmm, isn`t competing a CAPATALIST thing?

darn russians >____>

 

And yet, the USSR, a government with enough resources to detect and prove to the world that the US moon mission were faked if that had been the case, and that would have had great motivation to do so at the time (Does he realize just how big a propaganda coup that would have been?), sat by quietly and let the world believe that the US landed on the Moon.

 

Why? Because they knew that the US had landed on the Moon, and any attempt to discredit it would come back and blow up in their face.

 

I mean really, it is one thing to stage a fake Moon landing that will fool your average Joe Blow on the street, but a complete other to do it so that it would fool the entire international scientific community( In fact, it is probably just easier to go to the Moon).

 

But like I said, people will believe what they want to believe, whether is is reasonable or not.