Are there any man made objects on the moon viewable from the Hubble space telescope ?
neveratrest asked:
It seems like we should be able to see the moon lander etc from the space telescope.
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It seems like we should be able to see the moon lander etc from the space telescope.
January 11th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Nope, there are none. Why do you think there should be? Have you calculated how big something would have to be, for the Hubble to see it? An object would need to be at least 400 feet in diameter, and even then it would be just a dot or two in the pictures. The biggest piece of left-behind Apollo equipment is only 30 feet across and thus smaller than a single pixel in a Hubble image.
The Hubble’s resolution is about 0.1 arc-seconds.
Satellites going around the moon have taken pictures of the Apollo equipment. Morningfox
January 13th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
No, but an alien-made object was found on the moon of Mars by the Mars Orbiter, and an astronaut recently told the world about it on national tv.
Don’t believe me? Watch it for yourself. I swear this is true. hammster
January 14th, 2010 at 4:06 am
No the Hubble Telescope doesn’t have the resolution but NASA has returned high-def pictures of all 5 Apollo landing sites. You can see man made structures plus astronaut foot paths. See below. digquickly