recent pictures from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have imaged the Apollo landing sites, where you can see the descent stages, landing feet, instrument clusters, and even traces of the astronaut footprints in the lunar dust. (You can do a Google search for Apollo Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Pictures and see or download them).......
However, recent pictures from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have imaged the Apollo landing sites, where you can see the descent stages, landing feet, instrument clusters, and even traces of the astronaut footprints in the lunar dust. (You can do a Google search for "Apollo Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Pictures" and see or download them).
Those of us who worked in the program back in the 1960s (literally many thousands) couldn't keep a secret like that if our lives depended on it. American astronauts landed on the Moon 6 times in the 1969-1972 timeframe. Apollo 18 didn't happen -- it's just a movie plot. Too bad "real" doesn't mean much anymore. there is enough REAL Apollo film, TV and video out there that clips cut in and out could be rea.
(BTW, I've learned throughout my scientific career that movie "quality" is usually inversely proportional to the "hype" -- so I'm not likely to spend very much on this (so-called Apollo 18) flick.
No, you can not. You may be able to see it had it been a couple of miles long in size. sadly it was not. There is no telescope on earth or in space capable of resolving a small flag on the moon. The so called conspiracy theory will always be around even if the flag was large enough to be seen from earth. They will find a different argument.
No telescope ever built could have the magnification or resolving power to see something so small. The best we can do is from orbit spacecraft such as Lunar Reconnaissance can spot the landing section of the Apollo.
You would need a really high tech telescope and need to know the coordinates on where it was placed!
Yes ... if the telescope is within a few 100 km. of the flag.
dude you know what, i was asking myself this exact same question yesterday. im sorry i dont have an answer, i will buy a telescope and find out. lol.
