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Please, sir. Spare us the conspiracy theory.

The surface of the moon is made of granulated rock — a layer of loose regolith on top of a layer of steel-hard rock and compressed powder. The Lunar Module’s tiny engine (9,900 lbs thrust) was powerful enough to blow the top layer of powder away, but nowhere near hot or energetic enough to gouge out a crater in the compacted regolith beneath it. Asking “where‘s the crater?” underneath the Lunar Module makes as much sense as asking why a jet airliner’s engines (roughly 18,500-23,500 lbs thrust x 2 engines for a B727) don’t blow a hole in a concrete runway every time one takes off. The answer is that neither vehicle’s engines produces anywhere near enough thrust to blast out a crater in a hard surface.

There is a typo in my previous post. The phrase “roughly 18,500-23,500 lbs thrust x 2 engines for a B727” should read “roughly 18,500-23,500 lbs thrust x 2 engines for a B737”. (A B727 has three engines, not two as does the B737.) Sorry for the mistake.

>Please, sir ... The Lunar Module’s tiny engine (9,900 lbs thrust) was powerful enough to blow the top layer of powder away, but nowhere near hot or energetic enough to gouge out a crater

Without tin foil, why
would the internet exist?
(The crater "question"

still applies. Some pics
show moon dust at the landing,
footsteps by the LEM,

that kind of thing. So,
it wasn't blown away by
engines at landing.

Then why don't we see
a specific depression
in whatever's there?)