Why doesn't anyone have a pic of the flag on the moon?

Question

i hear too many people saying it's too small. that's hogwash.

we have google satellite images of earth that show cars and people sunbathing and playing soccer. and then they say a flag is too small to see?

so what's the deal with this? this is clearly a lie. flags are obviously not too small to see, so the question is why isn't anyone taking a pic of it?

i find it kinda funny that, of all things, people seem to not even care about the location of one of the greatest events in the space age.

Answer 1

>>i hear too many people saying it's too small. that's hogwash.<<

No, that s mathematicall verifiable.

>>we have google satellite images of earth that show cars and people sunbathing and playing soccer. and then they say a flag is too small to see?<<

No. Google Earth images of that resolution use *aerial* photography, not satellite imagery.

>>so what's the deal with this? this is clearly a lie. flags are obviously not too small to see, so the question is why isn't anyone taking a pic of it?<<

The flags are too small to see by any existent telescope from here. he highest resolution satellite imager might be able to manage it, but that's a big heavy object that requires a massive booster just to get it to Earth orbit. To get it into lunar orbit, the only place from which it has the remotest chance of seeing the flags, would require a very expensive launch, for which there is no justification. 'To take cool pictures' has never been a justification for any space launch. To take scientifically useful images has been. What scientific use is there for images of the flag?

And before you say it would end all the moon hoax conspiracy stuff, of course it wouldn't. People who believe that garbage already have no trouble dismissing the thousands of images and hours and hours of film and video, not to mention lunar soil and rock samples, personal testimonies, documents and so on. A few extra pistures forty years later won't make a blind bit of difference because they either are already convinced that it was all faked or they have a vested interest in maintaining their conspiracy theory for the purpose of video and book sales.

>>i find it kinda funny that, of all things, people seem to not even care about the location of one of the greatest events in the space age.<<

Oh, we care. We just already have enough information about that.

Answer 2

Those satellites you're talking about are in low Earth orbit.  We don't have any satellites orbiting the Moon.  The best telescopes from Earth and Earth orbit can't see anything smaller than a football field on the Moon.

Answer 3

There is no flag on the moon, It was all a hoax & man never landed on the moon, They were in the Nevada desert.

Answer 4

Eri's answer is quite correct, Earth orbiting satellites do not have anything close to the optical resolution needed to resolve the flags on the moon. Earth based telescopes are also far short of the resolving capacity needed. Even the Hubble may not have the resolving ability.

Even if all of these scopes could resolve the flags, why would they? The cost per hour of telescope time is so high that there are far more important uses of these scopes than taking pictures of something which we already have many pictures of and which has no scientific value.