Why was Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) left on the moon? Couldn't they bring it back to earth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Rovin…

There was more than one.

Too expensive. the LEM did not have heavy lift capability on take off.

First, it was stored in the lower part of the LEM. The part of the LEM that stayed on the moon.

Second, it was taken to the moon in a disassembled state, and put together after the LEM landed on the moon.

Third, there was no room for it in the part of the LEM that took off from the moon. There was barely enough room for the two astronauts.

Fifth, the command module contained 3 astronauts, and was the only part of the entire spacecraft to actually return to Earth from the moon.

If you would do a little research, you wouldn't even have to ask such a stupid question.
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The reason the rovers were left on the Moon is because of the mass of the rovers and the mass of the fuel that would be required to have been taken to the Moon to get those rovers out of the Moon's gravity well. The Apollo missions did not have enough fuel to bring back the rovers. That is why they were left on the Moon. Getting the astronauts back to Earth had a higher priority.

If you had lots of additional fuel to lift the rover from the moon, you still have to bring it to earth, slow it enough then parachute it to the ground. It would have cost a lot more in fuel than the LRV was worth, not to mention the danger to the astronauts when trying to land it on earth

They could *technically* bring it back to Earth, but the cost for fuel would be more expensive than building a new one. Also, even if we could, it's left there for future astronauts.

I don't think they needed to bring it back to earth or had the fuel to do so. Hopefully someday we will have a visitor's center around where it got left.

Man's tendency to litter has reached the moon.