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Originally Posted by classic
If they wanted to couldn't they pinpoint all of the Apollo landing points with the Hubble telescope or some satellite?
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Hubble does not have the resolution to detect something so small as the lander at a distance of a quarter of a million miles. It would need to be an order of magnitude bigger just to show the lander was there, never mind identify it as such.
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The Hubble detected methane on a planet 63 light years away on HD189733b.
They could end all of this controversy once and for all. Pinpoint all of the landing sites precisely by detecting their methane signatures from discarded diapers.
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The methane was detected in a planetary atmosphere by its absorption of starlight as the planet moved in front of its star. That won't work on the Moon. For one thing any methane would be long gone after 40 years. For another there isn't enough atmosphere on the Moon.