Photos and the moon. (topic change: post awesome images of space and such)

**Dayman** · April 13, 2008, 07:48 PM

Are we capable yet of producing photos high enough resolution of the moon so we could take an image of the landing sites, and put away the conspiracy theories that say we didn't land there?

**Old_Rome** · April 13, 2008, 08:51 PM

As a hobby I have built several telescopes (Newtonian Reflectors) and I belong to my local observatory and get telescope time. However, I am just an amateur astronomer.

Though, I do know the answer to your question. The Earth is about 240,000 miles from the moon. At this distance the Hubble Telescope would only be able to distinguish objects approximately 200 feet across. The biggest piece from Apollo is only 30 feet across. A fraction of one pixel.

Thus we can not see anything left over from the Apollo Program on the Moon from the Earth.

**Dayman** · April 13, 2008, 09:31 PM

I figured we'd have higher resolutions by now.

It'll happen eventually though.

**Heinz Guderian** · April 13, 2008, 11:50 PM

Originally Posted by Boeing

I figured we'd have higher resolutions by now.

It'll happen eventually though.

Yeah, when we actually do go to the moon and not some desert in White Sands New Mexico

**Mythos** · April 13, 2008, 09:35 PM

Originally Posted by Boeing

Are we capable yet of producing photos high enough resolution of the moon so we could take an image of the landing sites, and put away the conspiracy theories that say we didn't land there?

There are those laser rangefinders...

**Dayman** · April 13, 2008, 11:54 PM

Originally Posted by Mythos

There are those laser rangefinders...

I forgot about those!

**Gwendylyn** · April 14, 2008, 12:10 AM

http://www.google.com/moon/

Google wins again.

EDIT: Although I should add, the resolutions are still not at the level that would satisfy any of the doubters. However, give them a good telescope and they can see the moon landing themselves from their back porch.

**Dayman** · April 14, 2008, 12:17 AM

Originally Posted by Gwendylyn

http://www.google.com/moon/

Google wins again.

EDIT: Although I should add, the resolutions are still not at the level that would satisfy any of the doubters. However, give them a good telescope and they can see the moon landing themselves from their back porch.

BTW did you apply for that Mars mission Gwen?

And no, you Garb.

Looking at pictures of space and of us on the moon and pictures from Mars and even Titan...they make me shudder in awe.

It's better than acid.

**Garbarsardar** · April 14, 2008, 12:15 AM

Originally Posted by Boeing

Are we capable yet of producing photos high enough resolution of the moon so we could take an image of the landing sites, and put away the conspiracy theories that say we didn't land there?

We have pictures of the landing sites:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**Heinz Guderian** · April 14, 2008, 12:27 AM

Originally Posted by Garbarsardar

We have pictures of the landing sites:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

that made me spill my corn flakes.

**Dayman** · April 14, 2008, 12:28 AM

Weather on Titan.

**Dayman** · April 14, 2008, 08:24 PM

That's not a face on the moon that's on a region of Mars known as Cydonia.*

And it only looks like that if the light hits it a certain way.

*it is famous for its knights/

**Pontifex Maximus** · April 15, 2008, 04:56 PM

Mars? Hmm that website was wrong then. Creepy nonetheless...

**Dayman** · April 16, 2008, 06:14 AM

**Bokks** · April 16, 2008, 12:50 PM

I was going to say something witty, but then _Pontifex_ with his Mars Face made me forget about it.
As it turns out, by the way, the picture that Boeing posts still gives it a look of a face more than it should (not to say it's a bad picture, Boeing) It turns out that what we percieve as one eye is something like 500 miles higher than the other one, making any vision of a face a very interesting phenomena.

Mars is a strange place, so much smaller than earth and yet it has much bigger volcanoes, mountains and canyons.

Anyway, the moon landing was not taped in New Mexico, it was in my school gymnasium!

... dang! you'd think there'd be some picture somewhere of a gym on the moon! Oh well.

**Dayman** · April 16, 2008, 01:00 PM

500 miles high? I think you mean meters!

But our pattern recognition software is very good.

**DimondLight** · April 16, 2008, 02:18 PM

An international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the universe. Located an estimated 13 billion light-years away, the object is being viewed at a time only 750 million years after the big bang, when the universe was barely 5 percent of its current age.