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Fly me to the moon, Artemis II.
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Shouldn't we rename the rocket to Allah II as to honor the moon and not bring the wrath of President Trump down on us?
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This is an awesome achievement but hoping that NASA will publish better pictures/ video than the ones they are streaming now once Artemis gets home. I am guessing they are limited by bandwidth from sharing the good stuff now.
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There were a couple of Flat Earthers that ran a livestream during the launch, talking about how it was all fake. While I don't have a link to their livestream, there is this debunking video:
Two Flat Earthers Get Super Triggered Over the New Moon Mission
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With Apollo 10, the Command Module (capsule) was called Charlie Brown, and the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) was called Snoopy. Apollo 10 was a dry run for the actual landing.
Soon after, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade had a Snoopy-in-an-Apollo-Space-Suit balloon. I think they kept it using it after the Apollo program had ended.
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It will be interesting, but the far side of the moon has been photographed before. The surprising thing are comments that the astronauts are the first to see part of the far side with human eyes. Turns out that NASA conducted the landings so that the sites were in the long lunar day. Alas, didn't check on Apollo 8 and Apollo 10. Apollo 11 astronauts may have seen more of the far side than the other missions, based on the amount of illumination on the near side.
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I never knew that was a thing, flat earthers. This should get interesting.
There's a question about the whole thing I've always been qurious of. Why can't we, or anyone on earth take some kind of high powered telescope and view the moon landing sites? Maybe it's too much like searching for a needle in a hay stack?
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The easy answer, to be able to have a telescope powerful enough to see a lunar lander on the moon, the telescope would need to have an aperture of something like a mile, far larger than any telescope ever made. Basically, no telescope ever made is powerful to see one of the landing sites.
OTOH, several nations that have sent unmanned missions to the moon have taken pictures of the various Apollo landing sites while they were in lunar orbit. The countries that have taken these photos include the US, India, South Korea, Japan, and China.
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You are correct:
Apollo 15: A Mission of Many Firsts
Highlights of the Apollo 15 landing site, as seen in LROC NAC image M175252641R. This image has a resolution of 27 cm/px, and shows an area of 262 m by 186 m. The Lunar Module is clearly visible, as are many tracks from the Lunar Roving Vehicle (whose final resting place is just east of the edge...
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Angle of resolution. Even with powerful telescopes, it's too small. For a back of the envelope figure, The LEM was close to 14 feet wide, not counting the extended legs. Average distance to the moon is about 239,000 miles. 239,000 - 1,080 miles (moon radius) - 3,960 miles (earth radius) = 233,960 miles distance from the surface of the near side of the moon to the facing side of the earth. That's 1,235,308,800 feet. Divide half the LEM width by the distance gives the tangent of 1/2 the angle it appears from earth. That's 3.247 x 10^-7 degrees. Multiplying by 2 gives 6.493 x 10^-7 degrees. That's how tiny it would appear to the naked eye from earth.
Without looking it up, will go out on a limb here. Let's point a 600 power telescope at Tranquility Base. The apparent angle of the LEM would be 3.896 x 10^-4 degrees. The smallest the human eye can resolve is about 1.7 x 10^-2 degrees. We still couldn't see it. Point a 1,000 power telescope at it, and it's 6.493x10^-4. Still too small. Think we'd need something like a 26,200 power telescope to see the bottom stage of the LEM. And that's if we didn't have atmospheric turbulence to contend with.
That said, the Apollo missions left reflectors pointing toward earth, and scientists have bounced lasers off them for various purposes. There have also been lunar orbiter probes that glimpsed the tracks left by the lunar rovers.
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The closest pictures are those from the LROC.
Images | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
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