Apollo Flights and the Moon?

Question

First is our flag placed by the Apollo 11 mission still on the moon? Second does anyone know of any photos of anything left on the surface of the moon. I am looking for ones taken from telescopes not ones taken by men on the moon itself.

Answer 1

The flag is still there, but it's probably crumpled on the ground.  It was very close to the lander, and the blast from the ascent stage almost certainly knocked it over.

There are no ground-based photos of the moon landings, but scientists who know where to point their lasers can bounce them off of the reflectors that the astronauts left there.  That's how they measure "moonquakes."

Also (I know this is secondhand) I know astronomers who watched through high-powered telescopes and could see the Apollo capsules reflected light while they orbited the Moon.

The new Lunar Reconnaisance probe will have a camera high-powered enough to image the landing sites, like one of the Mars orbiters can pick up the rovers on the surface.  That should finally shut the "moon landing hoax" idiots up.

Answer 2

The flag left by the Apollo 11 astronauts was blown down by the exhaust of the ascent stage of the LM, the astronauts reported seeing go down as they blasted off from the moon's surface. Future missions planted the flag away from the LM to prevent a reoccurance.

   There are no still pictures like the kind you describe. There is video though, taken by the color video camera on board the lunar rovers. They recorded the descent stage and experiments left behind by the astronauts for an hour or so before batteries ran out.

   Ground based telescopes on the Earth (as well as the Hubble) are not able to resolve objects as small as what was left on the moon by the Apollo missions.

Answer 3

Yes and it will remain there for thousands of years at least if it's not hit by a meteorite or something else. Footnote: Eugene Cernan, the last astronaut to stand on the moon wrote his daughter Tracy's initials "T.D.C." in the dust on the moons surface just before climbing aboard to return home. It's assumed those initials will remain there just as long if they go undisturbed.

Answer 4

The flags, and even the much larger LM decent stages left on the Moon, are much too small to see from Earth or from Earth orbit, even with the biggest telescopes.

Answer 5

The flag should still be there. At the very least, the laser reflector unit is still there, as it is regularly used to measure the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

And, no, you cannot have a picture of the Moon detailed enough to show anything of value. The best Earth based telescopes, and the Hubble space telescope, have a resolution that would turn a football stadium sized object on the Moon as a single pixel. Anything smaller can thus not be distinguished.

Answer 6

The flag is still there, though things look like the lift-off from the moon toppled it. Was not a good idea to put it so close.

Telescopes couldn't see the remaining objects as even the large LM is too small to be seen from Earth. Even the HST can only resolve objects 280 ft across.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will be able to at least make the LM visible, maybe even lunar rover or larger experiments. It is scheduled to be launched on November 24, 2008.

Answer 7

yes (why wouldn't they be?), and no.

no earth-based telesscope can photograph any apollo artifacts. they are too small and too far away. this is well-known to all but moon hoax morons.

later: the smallest objects that can be imaged on the moon from earth are on the order of a kilometer across. teh apollo lm ascent stage is about 3 meters across. the flags are less than a meter across. you need at least 1000 times better resolution.

Answer 8

Tina L's right, and the HST can't do it either.