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On 2002-06-19 19:51, ngant17 wrote:
If you want to redeem my faith in NASA, let's have someone point
a spy satellite or something like the Hubble telescope at the
lunar surface and take a clear shot of the lunar buggy and other
assorted junk which the Apollo astronauts left there 30 years
ago? Is there a problem with that? Wouldn't that help to end
this argument once and for all?
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A quote from Jim Scotti´s site -
http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jsco...faked/FOX.html
"A telescope's diffraction limited resolving power depends linearly on the aperture of the telescope. Groundbased telescopes also have to look through the murky and turbulant atmosphere so without corrective techniques that are just now becoming common in large telescopes (called adaptive optics), a telescopes resolution is limited by the atmosphere to about 0.5-1.0 arcseconds (3600 arcseconds are in one degree and 360 degrees around the whole sky). That limits groundbased telescopes to a resolution of about 2 kilometers on the moon. From space, a telescope is limited by its diffraction limited resolution. For the Hubble Space Telescope, that is a little less than 0.05 arcseconds or about 90 meters at the distance of the moon. To resolve the LM descent stage which is about 10 meters across, one would need to have a resolution better than 10 meters, perhaps 2-3 meters which means we need a telescope some 30 times larger than the HST in orbit around the Earth to resolve the largest equipment left on the moon."
Even IF it was possible to take such a picture, the hoax believers would merely respond by saying something like:
"Yeah, well, OK. Of course the equipment is on the lunar surface NOW .... but it was NOT there in 1972. Clearly NASA has landed this stuff on the moon using unmanned probes in the 30 years AFTER 1972".