Comments on: New Pictures of Apollo Landing Sites

By: Bill English

Bill English — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:29:24 +0000

Wes – Do it in photo shop!

By: Dexter

Dexter — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:24:49 +0000

Photoshop

By: lars1632

lars1632 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:19:31 +0000

This is why

http://hubblesite.org/reference_desk/faq/answer.php?id=77&cat=topten

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:18:28 +0000

Because those are craters.

By: SydeffeX

SydeffeX — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:39:23 +0000

I believe that this picture is genuine. But somebody needs to explain to me whyit looks like all the rocks are lit from the right, while the LM is lit from the left.

By: smak

smak — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:14:52 +0000

@ Hires

Pointing Hubble at the Moon is like using binoculars to look at blood cells.

By: ted

ted — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:08:17 +0000

I think they’re using the Hubble to do more important things than trying to prove something to people who wouldn’t believe it anyways.

By: Mike.

Mike. — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:55:28 +0000

That’s the worst picture of a sound stage I’ve ever seen!

By: Hires

Hires — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:23:55 +0000

Just point the Hubble at the moon, take some hires pics. Bullshit over.

By: Some Canadian Skeptic

Some Canadian Skeptic — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:12:33 +0000

@heyZeus:

Hubble, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Griffith, the VLT and all the other land/space-based telescopes simply don’t have the resolution to shoot so tiny a target on the moon. Telescopes just don’t work like that. Yes, Hubble et. all are super-powerful (so they can shoot images millions of light years away), but the distance to the resolution is the equally-important function of a Telescope. It’d be like using a backyard telescope to look at bacteria across the street. The fact that it took the LRO’s super-high definition cameras in lunar orbit to take these pictures is pretty revealing.

By: heyZeus

heyZeus — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:37:49 +0000

*taken

By: heyZeus

heyZeus — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:36:07 +0000

why are they so blurry and why hasn’t the hubble or any other telescope taking pictures of the apollo landing sites before?

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:58:04 +0000

As soon as everyone admits that this NEVER happened we’ll all be better for it.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:09:43 +0000

Thanks, Wes. I can’t believe I had to wait ten hours for that. I guessed that would have been said within an hour of posting this.

By: Wes

Wes — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:19:09 +0000

Photoshop.

By: fz

fz — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:48:19 +0000

Take that, conspiracy theorists!

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:30:19 +0000

An amazing reminder of the constant sameness of the moon; the walk path is so eternal and cool. And I hate to be the Apollo Purist again, but that’s not actually the Lunar Module, it’s the descent stage that served as a launch pad for the LM.

By: Kalel

Kalel — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:01:36 +0000

Time for the UN to declare lunar landing sites as historical preserves, and protect them from future trespassers.