A picture of the moon landing?

shamrock1313

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I want to know if there is a picture of the moon taken from earth with a picture of the flag from the moon landing. I doubt there is, but I was just wondering.

I read some articles recently about how the moon landing was faked and was just wondering if NASA or any other person/company with a high powered telescope took a picture of the moon and the landing.

Either way, I want to see a large detailed picture of the moon. :)

Thanks for the help everyone.
 

Evadman

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Even the hubble does not have enough resolution to see the moon landing site; nothing currently built can see anything that fine.
 

imported_Snagle

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Originally posted by: shamrock1313
I want to know if there is a picture of the moon taken from earth with a picture of the flag from the moon landing. I doubt there is, but I was just wondering.

I read some articles recently about how the moon landing was faked and was just wondering if NASA or any other person/company with a high powered telescope took a picture of the moon and the landing.

Either way, I want to see a large detailed picture of the moon. :)

Thanks for the help everyone.

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

wtf does that have to do with what he just said?

Just pointing him to a site with information relevant to the theories about the landing being faked-- I'm aware that there isn't a pic that he wants in the link.
 

HamburgerBoy

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Originally posted by: Snagle
Just pointing him to a site with information relevant to the theories about the landing being faked-- I'm aware that there isn't a pic that he wants in the link.

It's not like he said "I know about the conspiracy created by NASA, and demand pictures for proof!" or anything like that.
 

shamrock1313

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That link did help though Snagle. At the bottom:
A telescope's diffraction limited resolving power depends linearly on the aperture of the telescope. Groundbased telescopes also have to look through the murky and turbulant atmosphere so without corrective techniques that are just now becoming common in large telescopes (called adaptive optics), a telescopes resolution is limited by the atmosphere to about 0.5-1.0 arcseconds (3600 arcseconds are in one degree and 360 degrees around the whole sky). That limits groundbased telescopes to a resolution of about 2 kilometers on the moon. From space, a telescope is limited by its diffraction limited resolution. For the Hubble Space Telescope, that is a little less than 0.05 arcseconds or about 90 meters at the distance of the moon. To resolve the LM descent stage which is about 10 meters across, one would need to have a resolution better than 10 meters, perhaps 2-3 meters which means we need a telescope some 30 times larger than the HST in orbit around the Earth to resolve the largest equipment left on the moon.
 

shamrock1313

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Originally posted by: Aimster
Why was the flag moving during the moon landing if it is not supposed to?
That site Snagles linked to tells you why.

Anyway, can someone still link me to a good picture of the moon? I really would like to see a nice detailed picture.
 

imported_Snagle

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Originally posted by: shamrock1313
That link did help though Snagle. At the bottom:
A telescope's diffraction limited resolving power depends linearly on the aperture of the telescope. Groundbased telescopes also have to look through the murky and turbulant atmosphere so without corrective techniques that are just now becoming common in large telescopes (called adaptive optics), a telescopes resolution is limited by the atmosphere to about 0.5-1.0 arcseconds (3600 arcseconds are in one degree and 360 degrees around the whole sky). That limits groundbased telescopes to a resolution of about 2 kilometers on the moon. From space, a telescope is limited by its diffraction limited resolution. For the Hubble Space Telescope, that is a little less than 0.05 arcseconds or about 90 meters at the distance of the moon. To resolve the LM descent stage which is about 10 meters across, one would need to have a resolution better than 10 meters, perhaps 2-3 meters which means we need a telescope some 30 times larger than the HST in orbit around the Earth to resolve the largest equipment left on the moon.

glad i could help :D
 

shamrock1313

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Are there any detailed pictures of the moon though? I remember seeing an amazing 1600x1200 picture of the moon in all its glory.
 

Evadman

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Originally posted by: shamrock1313
Are there any detailed pictures of the moon though? I remember seeing an amazing 1600x1200 picture of the moon in all its glory.

Thats not detailed really. Some of the NASA stuff is awesome. I have one of the earth that is 610 Megabyes. There has to be something on NASA's site, thats where the earth one was.
 

Linflas

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The thing I can never figure out about conspiracy theorists is how they explain why a news media that can't wait to expose every little foible and wart they can find about any politician or government agency would cooperate with one another for 50 years to cover up things like "Kennedy was actually killed by..." or "The moon landing was faked".