Can NASA see the flag on the moon?

About the flag: It fell over The working presumption at NASA is that the flag fell, said John Uri, manager of the Johnson Space Center History Office. Aldrin said he thought he saw the flag tip over from the exhaust when the lunar module lifted off, and the shadow of the flag is not visible in satellite images.

Is there a flag still on the moon?

An enduring question ever since the manned moon landings of the 1960s has been: Are the flags planted by the astronauts still standing? Now, lunar scientists say the verdict is in from the latest photos of the moon taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC): Most do, in fact, still stand.

Can we see the American flag on the moon from Earth?

Flags were left by all six Moon missions. In any event, the answer is no. No telescope has the angular resolution to see anything that tiny on the Moon from the Earth. The Apollo landing sites have, however, been photographed from lunar orbit by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

How big of a telescope would you need to see the flag on the moon?

around 200 meters
The flag on the moon is 125cm (4 feet) long. You would require a telescope around 200 meters in diameter to see it. The largest telescope now is the Keck Telescope in Hawaii at 10 meters in diameter. Even the Hubble Space telescope is only 2.4 meters in diameter.

How many flags are there on the moon?

But what has become of the six American flags planted there by astronauts? Cameras attached to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have photographed five of the six flags left by astronauts from the Apollo missions of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Can you see astronauts on the moon with a telescope?

The landers, rovers, and other junk left on the lunar surface by the astronauts are totally invisible. Using a bigger telescope won’t help much. You’d need a mirror 50 times bigger than Hubble’s to see the landers at all, and we don’t have a 100 meter telescope handy.

Can you see the flag on the moon from a telescope?

Yes, the flag is still on the moon, but you can’t see it using a telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope is only 2.4 meters in diameter – much too small! Resolving the larger lunar rover (which has a length of 3.1 meters) would still require a telescope 75 meters in diameter.

Can you see a person on the moon with a telescope?

Not only is this insufficient to resolve a person on the Moon, but it’s not even good enough to detect the 10-meter-wide Apollo landers left there in the 1960s and ’70s. To get less than 2-meter (6-foot)resolution when the Moon is closest, we’d need a telescope able to resolve angles as small as 0.001 arcsecond.

When did China Land on the moon?

14 December 2013
Chang’e 3, launched on 2 December 2013 aboard a Long March 3B rocket, landed on the Moon on 14 December 2013. It carried with it a 140 kilograms (310 pounds) lunar rover named Yutu, which was designed to explore an area of 3 square kilometers (1.2 square miles) during a 3-month mission.

Can we use the Hubble Space Telescope to see anything left behind?

Can we use the Hubble Space Telescope to see anything left behind by the astronauts? Yes, the flag is still on the moon, but you can’t see it using a telescope. I found some statistics on the size of lunar equipment in a Press Kit for the Apollo 16 mission.

What size telescope would be needed to see the flag?

I found some statistics on the size of lunar equipment in a Press Kit for the Apollo 16 mission. The flag is 125 cm (4 feet) long, and you would need an optical wavelength telescope around 200 meters (~650 feet) in diameter to see it.

Can we see the Apollo 11 landings on the Moon?

Not even the Hubble Space Telescope can discern evidence of the Apollo landings. The laws of optics define its limits. Hubble’s 94.5-inch mirror has a resolution of 0.024″ in ultraviolet light, which translates to 141 feet (43 meters) at the Moon’s distance. In visible light, it’s 0.05″, or closer to 300 feet.

What is the resolution of Hubble’s image of the Moon?

Hubble’s 94.5-inch mirror has a resolution of 0.024″ in ultraviolet light, which translates to 141 feet (43 meters) at the Moon’s distance. In visible light, it’s 0.05″, or closer to 300 feet.