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Apologies if this has been answered (many times). There will certainly be a point when space travel is trivial and these conspiracies will be shot down as the items left behind from our visits are "discovered".
Are there any planned missions which would allow for pictures to be taken of the moon's surface which would reveal our presence there? |
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Welcome, ldobler.
The mission I've heard mentioned as possibly being able to image the Apollo landing sites is Japan's SELENE, scheduled to launch in 2005. However, it appears the terrain camera has a resolution of only 10 m per pixel, which might not be enough to get the job done. The European Space Agency's SMART-1 satellite entered orbit around the Moon a couple weeks ago, but it has even less resolution than SELENE. I know of no planned mission(s) that will possess the required imaging resolution. |
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I'm positive this has been discussed here before -- but it's already been done, albeit not in fine detail. Check here and here.
Personally, I don't see that a hoax believer who refuses to accept the mountain of existing evidence demonstrating the authenticity of the lunar landings would be somehow swayed by fresh images of the landing sites and/or hardware. Welcome aboard, ldobler. ![]() |
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Most of our observation of the moon is done from the surface of earth. Objects 1 meter apart on the surface of the moon appear about 1/2000th of an arcsecond apart when viewed from Earth, so don't hold your breath for being able to see Armstrongs footprints.
The only way to get photos of the landing sites would be from lunar orbit. Why bother though? STFU doesn't cost 100 million Euros. |