New Moon photos , do they really show the Apollo landing gear ?

[Doug1]

Roster tails of dust would be easy to create that would fall slower then normal dirt or dust. Just pick the right type of particulates which have very little weight and are not inert.

[Staffman]

Although the Hubble Telescope has really good resolution, it is limited. The link below explains the math behind why we can not use Hubble to see the moon landing. The smallest thing it could see on the moon is 124 meters across.

http://sm3a.gsfc.nasa.gov/messages/676.html

The same goes for a camera in orbit around the moon. They could put the camera in a closer orbit to achieve better resolution but, that would use up more fuel decreasing the mission lifetime.

Maybe a bunch of smaller telescopes linked up (interferometry) could accomplish this from earth?

[hartiberlin]

By the way, what happened with the Japanese
KAGUYA (SELENE) spacecraft ?

Did it ever made a video of the NASA landing sites, while flying over it and
good was the resolution ?

Did it finally crash into the moon ?

I did not follow up on this and am curious,
if the Japanese agency released any good photos
of the Nasa landing sites.

Regards, Stefan.

[FatBird]

Here is ABSOLUTE PROOF they did NOT go to the moon!!!!

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Part 1.  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOMHSgQuuiw


Part 2.  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTd9XjvWxCw


Part 3.  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QsgdXMUtdA


Part 4.  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdXtRpCsjp0


Part 5.  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crqbdjybYeE


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[utilitarian]

Roster tails of dust would be easy to create that would fall slower then normal dirt or dust. Just pick the right type of particulates which have very little weight and are not inert.

You completely miss the point of the rooster tails of dust.  The point is not that dust particles fall slowly, but that they fall quickly, and do not linger in the air, like they should, if there was an atmosphere.  Absent a huge vacuum chamber, you cannot recreate this effect on earth.