26-11-2010, 03:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 26-11-2010, 03:30 AM by Matthew Lewis.)
James H. Fetzer Wrote:Tom Lehrer used to sing about the wonderful things they were doing with plastics nowadays. Today its with digital technology. They could have Neil and Buzz sontering about the surface of the Moon if they wanted to. It is my understanding that the Hubble Space Telescope has been forbidden to look at the Moon. If that's true, I can imagine only one reason, which is that it would expose the stunning hoax NASA has perpetrated on the world.The Hubble telescope is not forbidden to look at the Moon. It has done so in the past.
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/sola..._moon.html
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive...es/1999/14
It does not however have the resolution to make out anything smaller than a football field. A telescope on Earth or in orbit would have to have an objective mirror over 100 feet across to make out objects left on the Moon. The Hubble's mirror is just over 2 meters.
Look up the Dawes limit for more info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes'_limit
http://www.astro.shoregalaxy.com/index_010.htm
The Hubble gets the impressive pictures it gets because the objects it focuses on very large. They are also very faint. The Hubble has the ability, because it is in orbit, to focus on one point far longer than any terrestrial based scope enabling it to see very faint distant galaxies better. It also does not have to deal with light pollution. There are bigger scopes on Earth with better resolution at the distance of the Moon but still none big enough to resolve objects on the Moon.