At Last, 40 Years Later: Apollo Landers Seen on the Moon
[Link: www.skyandtelescope.com...]
“Hey, can you see the flag on the Moon with that thing?”
For the last 40 years, every amateur astronomer with a big telescope has heard this countless times. My standard response, ever since I was a teenager, has always been:
“No, telescopes on the ground mostly can’t see anything smaller than a mile across on the Moon. The flag is just a couple feet across. The Apollo landing stages are still there, but they’re only a few yards across.”
Fact is, not even the Hubble telescope or lunar orbiters have had optics good enough to see anything that humans left on the Moon.
Until now.
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Frank says: