Why since man arrived on the moon have we had no pictures of evidence of landing site and the debris left

Question

with satelites roaming our earth and taking pictures of us,why then dont they point them at the moon so that we can see the us landing site and the vehicles left there?

Answer 1

there's a bunch of evidence's that makes me think about the moonlanding was a hoax...sad to say this

Answer 2

what's the point?

i have run into people so PIG-HEADED that believe that the Moon landing was a hoax, no matter that each point of 'evidence' they bring up is shot down like one of d**k Cheney's lawyer friends, that I believe if Superman flew them to the Moon to see for themselves that the lander was still there, they would claim Superman was a US lackey and STILL not believe it!

Superman is NOT a US lackey.

Answer 3

The angle subtendted by a typical 'debris' object on the moon (<5m across, say) from earth orbit is about 1.3x10^-8rad. The max resolution of any telescope (incl Hubble) is given by the Airy disc overlap of the diffraction patterns from two distinct objects. Angle='lambda'/d *where lamda= wavelength of the light used and d =diam of mirror/objective.

For HST this transl8s 2 theta=5x10^-7/2.4=2.08x10^-7 rad..So even the HST (best we have) is incapable of resolving objects <80m size even under ideal conditions (ie assuming perfectly aligned optics and perfect parabaloid config of mirror)

* 4 pract ideal obs purposes scale this up by a factor of 2*pi

Answer 4

There is no reason to do this as it would be of no special interest.

Answer 5

Because the moon is still a big chunk of real estate, and we don't have anything orbiting it to take those kinds of photos. Take a look at this website:

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apoll...

Besides, why do we need 'evidence'? We all know we went there. Just because you weren't around then doesn't mean we need to justify it to you or anybody else who missed it the first time. Do we need to prove WWII happened as well?  

Answer 6

the satellites we have on earth are there to benefit the people who live on earth? for what reason would you put one in orbit of the moon? what people would benefit for it?  

Answer 7

The same reason we can't see the debris from the ground - the satellites around Earth are 238,000 miles from the moon.

Besides... why would you trust a fuzzy, grainy picture showing the landing sites from the same company that took the vivid, man-on-the-spot photos 35 years ago...?  

Answer 8

Satellites are very expensive and are put into orbit to do a job, not to disprove the mad ramblings of conspiracy theorists.  No one in their right mind really cares if they think the moon landings are a hoax, let them go on thinking it if they want to.

A satellite orbits at perhaps 500 miles above the earth.  The moon is 250,000 miles away.  You might be to see a car parked by the road from a mile away but could you see it from 500 miles away?

Answer 9

they shot it at a studio