Among the stories about instant granite, hollow earths and glass tubes on Mars, my crankish informant has told me that Hubble has taken photographs of the lunar surface. Apparently, early in the Hubble program, NASA stated that the instrument would not be turned on the moon because its sensors could not tolerate the glare. So, with this photograph, we have a new wave of conspiracy theories based on the notion that the public has been denied high-resolution Hubble images to protect us from the knowledge that there are alien artifacts on the moon, and that this alleged photo was a slip-up.

Does anyone have anything to offer concerning this development?