Do you think the NASA should once and for all show definitive proof that man landed on the moon?

Question

If the Hubble Telescope can see Galaxy's at the edges of the universe, why not turn it around and show pictures of the abandoned landers and rovers left on the moon?

Answer 1

Hehe... old times! I remember! I've seen it on TV!

It was impossible to lie. I'm sure russians tracked them and if they had been lying, then russians would have blown the whistle.

About the telescope... do you think you'd believe it really took images of human traces on the moon? You'd call it cheat too.

Answer 2

Why are people so convinced NASA is lying about the moon landings?

Answer 3

They have done. Check the NASA site.

Answer 4

I don't believe them.

Answer 5

Why waste the time??  The nutters would just say the Hubble images were faked.

People who see conspiracies and deception are going to see it regardless what data is put in front of them.

Answer 6

well i do believe that the moon landings did happen. in fact NASA did point Hubble towards the moon. the pictures on the website i listed below dose not show the remains of the flag or the space craft, but it shows that Hubble can point it self towards the moon.

Answer 7

at the time nasa had thousands of employes keeping them quiet would be more expensive than goin to the moon. what make you think we have yet to land there?

Answer 8

there is no telescope which has so good sharpness that they could see the american flag on the moon.

moonrocks are not proof that they landed on the moon, moonrocks can be collected using robots.

Answer 9

The Hubble would be permanently blinded by the glare of the moon's reflection of the sun's light. The moon has a very high reflective index, almost like a mirror. So no, we're not going to be taking snapshots of American flags on the moon.

We have many other means of verifying human arrival on the moon. Not least of which are the specially designed mirrors we placed there. With these devices, we can reflect a powerful laser from the earth, to the moon, and back, so that we can measure the moon's reccesion away from the planet. This happens at a rate of about a quarter of an inch every year.

Answer 10

They have provided volumes of evidence and even brought bits of the moon back. This evidence has been independantly verified, and yet those who don't want to be convinced aren't convinced.

After a certain point it doesn't make sense to keep talking to that wall anymore.

Answer 11

First of all, anyone with an ounce of intelligence doesn't consider it necessary to prove what they already have massive evidence for.

Second, Hubble cannot resolve items as small as the Apollo objects, even if it were pointing at the moon.  It's a matter of physics, and many on here have posted the details ad nauseum for those who actually choose to listen.

Third, Hubble is busy doing REAL science, not being used to argue against the idiots.

And last, of course:  If the moon hoax pinheads (thanks to the poster above, it's a good description!) don't believe the massive amount of evidence and logic already out there, why would they believe anything new that Nasa provided?  Surely even they (pinheads though they be) would realize that a Hubble photo could be faked today much more easily than the Apollo photos,video, etc could have been back in 1969-72?

So in short, the answer is: because it's a waste of time and energy.

Answer 12

this assumes that proof is somehow needed. it isn't, unless you're a total pinhead. are you a total pinhead?

hubble can't do this anyway. this is well-known to all but moon hoax pinheads.

Answer 13

well they have a load of moon rock that apollo brought back,that's solid evidence

Answer 14

Yeah, they should take everyone in the world there and show them the abandoned landers.

Answer 15

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the surface of the Moon.  It's not designed to do it - mostly the issue is tracking the Moon.  HST is in low Earth Orbit, and the Moon moves really fast across the sky.  HST uses stars to hold tracking - the fine guidance sensors.  They're not designed to track the surface of the Moon.

But the Moon turns out to be a really good place to calibrate your infrared telescope.  And you don't need tracking or even focus for this task.  During one such calibration run, they decided to get some pictures of the Moon. They coded some "best guess" slewing software.  Not tracking reality, just guessing where the Moon would be. They weren't bad, but as HST pictures go, they were quite blurry.  In fact, there are claims that a 4" telescope on the ground can sometimes do better... you take thousands of very short images, and then sort through them for when the atmosphere wasn't moving for a split second.

So HST isn't going to spot the Apollo hardware.  Perhaps the VLT will be able to do it when they get interferometry working.  These scopes are on rails, and can get quite far apart.  Early on, ESA said they might make the attempt.  I've no idea how they're going to solve the tracking problem.  Well, they are on the ground, which will help.  But perhaps they can track some feature on the Moon...  ESA - is the Europeans.  That would be independent confirmation.  If you don't believe NASA now, why would you believe any new evidence they come up with?

Other than that, it will take an orbiter at least.  Maybe even a lander.

Answer 16

Why should they?  Can you or anyone show definitive proof that it didn't  happen?

Answer 17

Hubble is not operated by pinheads.

QED.

Answer 18

Well, for starters the cost of that would be astronomical (no pun intended). And at the end of the day there will always be people out there who wouldn't believe it happened even if you took them to the moon and showed them the remnants for themselves, they'd come up with some loony conspiracy theory to support the fact that they actually enjoy the paranoia and mistrust that they induce upon themselves.

Answer 19

What does "definitive proof" mean? Everyone who counts already agrees that they went to the moon. No amount of proof will ever be good enough for the conspiracy theorists that don't count.

HST cannot get images of the moon for reasons which have already been discussed. Even if it were able to, the conspiracy theorists would merely decry the images as fakes. They have no real interest in evidence or proof whatsoever. Therefore, any discussion with them is pointless.

Answer 20

Considering that hundreds of foreign astronomical groups were tuned in to the DIRECT radio signals from the moon, it would be impossible to fake it.

AND since there are thousands of employees in NASA, someone would have spilled the beans if it was faked!!!

Every company has a "whistle blower"!!!

Most of the so called reasons for being a fake are based on BAD SCIENCE and do not hold up to scrutiny!!