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To: Bommer
"If NASA really wants to settle this once and for all, all they need to do is aim the Hubble telescope to the Sea of Tranquility "

I don't think the Hubble can resolve objects that small at that distance. However, I understand that the new four mirror scope in the Chilean Andes can. But, observing time and access being what it is, and having no real scientific reason to do it, I'm not holding my breath waiting for these conclusive photos. Most of us believe that we went there anyway, its just the "Face of Mars" crowd that doubts it. I doubt pictures from earth would satisfy them anyway.

34 posted on 11/07/2002 2:27:57 PM PST by MrNeutron1962
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To: MrNeutron1962
just the "Face of Mars" crowd that doubts it

Even Hoagland, who popularized the Face, has no patience with those who doubt the moon landings.

36 posted on 11/07/2002 2:30:54 PM PST by RightWhale
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To: MrNeutron1962
"I don't think the Hubble can resolve objects that small at that distance"

Of course they can. Spy satilites can read a license plate from a geosyncrous orbit 23K miles above the earth, through the earth's atmosphere.

The moon is in an elliptical orbit ranging from 220,000 to about 252,000 miles from Earth. Only ten times the distance, and you don't have to contend with our atmosphere.
47 posted on 11/07/2002 3:23:57 PM PST by babygene
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