I know you astronomer whizzes have probably already seen this, but I’m posting it anyway for the benefit of those of us who haven’t. I think this is majorly cool – I’ve always wondered if we had telescopes powerful enough to check out the landing sites. I’m still looking at it myself to see if you can see the moon buggies or the landing vehicles.
that is way cool! did you catch the “secrets of soviet space disasters” last night on TV? (think it was history channel, but could have been discovery. that weird Arthur Kent was host)
them damn ruskies crashed a rocket on the moon and didn’t even tell us bout it!
Hmm…it’ll be interesting to see the fake-moon-landing-conspiracy crowd “debunk” these. Everyone get your tinfoil hats ready…
Er, sorry folks, you’re not going to see any artifacts on the Moon.
It would take a telescope about 20 km apart resolve a moon buggy (if I remember my Astro 101 homework set correctly.)
Der, that would be 20 km across. As in in diameter. And you’d have to have a crackerjack adaptive optics system to correct for atmospheric distortion.
Most of those pictures are from lunar orbiters and the spacecraft themselves. So the atmosphere has nothing to do with it.
Forget about not seeing the landers. The site is still really cool. Although I’d like to see a scale on all of the images, not just one on the final image of each series.
Thanks, pugluvr!
If you follow the Apollo 17 string of photos down to its closest focus, you can indeed see the lunar module, as the photo was taken from the orbiting Command Module while the lunar module was still on the surface.
How apropos - we are getting ready to watch “The Dish” tonight. 
Heh. Dan Durda, the author of that site, is a very good friend of mine (we went to Michigan undergrad together). I’ll have to let him know about this thread.
And the Moon Hoax Proponents can come up with a reason for everything, for they are unconstrained by physics, engineering, astronomy, science, and, indeed, rationality.
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Wow! That is so cool!
But since you can’t recognise the lander, you just know that the hoaxers are going to call it an alien ziggaurat.