Google is out of this world

[missioncontrol]

http://moon.google.com/?ll=40.178873,-66.708984

[JoyMonkey]

Whoever finds the first golf ball should win some sorta prize.

[MustardTent]

Is golf ball slang for alien poop?

[JoyMonkey]

All NASA does is send guys to the moon so they can practice their short game. See...
http://www.fotosearch.com/CRT802/001196cf/

[PrizLucky]

Wow, the high-resoltion of those pictures is amazing! when you zoom all the way in you can really see it all!

 

ROFL

[DYNAGOD]

all kidding aside, seeing as how the moon is our closest celestial neighbor ,why the hell is it that i have still at 30+ years old to see a decent hi resolution image of the surface or of any single any object that we left there taken from the earth/
do we lack the technology?

[RayB]

all kidding aside, seeing as how the moon is our closest celestial neighbor ,why the hell is it that i have still at 30+ years old to see a decent hi resolution image of the surface or of any single any object that we left there taken from the earth/
do we lack the technology?

We haven't built the technology to do it. Though some people will say it's a conspiracy to hide the fact that we never landed on the moon. 

Those people naively say things like "Why don't they just point Hubble at the landing area of the moon and take some pictures?!". Fact is Hubble, and other deep space imaging technology is designed for--well, like I said "deep space". It's like holding an object a quarter inch front of a camera zoom lens. It won't be able to focus on something that close.

The best way to "map" the moon is using a lunar orbiter, just like they have for Mars, and it IS planned already. NASA is planing to map the moon by 2008. Read all about it (and other lunar projects) here: http://space.com/businesstechnology/060207_lro_technology.html

[missioncontrol]

We haven't built the technology to do it. Though some people will say it's a conspiracy to hide the fact that we never landed on the moon. 

Why can't I find the flag then..... 

[markb]

Seeing a 5m wide lander from 250,000 miles away is still quite a challenge you know, especially as its in a hangar in Nevada!

[AtomSmasher]

I remember seeing the Fox special on the fake moon landing a few years ago and I remember laughing at every single claim they made.  I also remember nasa posting a rebuttable to every claim fox made on their website, even though it was pretty obvious fox was wrong in most of the cases.

[GGKoul]

all kidding aside, seeing as how the moon is our closest celestial neighbor ,why the hell is it that i have still at 30+ years old to see a decent hi resolution image of the surface or of any single any object that we left there taken from the earth/
do we lack the technology?

You can download High-resolution of Mars.. http://www.planetary.org/mars/mex-inst-hrsc.html

[shmokes]

Those images of Mars are still nowhere near close enough to reveal a flag (had a flag been planted on Mars).

Speaking of which, why don't we declare the moon a state?  We planted our flag there.  Nobody else had planted their flag at that point.  That means it's ours.  We should immediately conduct a massive terraforming project where we turn the surface into a giant American flag that will be seen by night by every nation in the world as a reminder that we own the moon and they don't.

By the way, America did refuse to sign the 1979 "Moon Treaty" which prohibited any nation from claiming sovereignty over the moon.  Maybe we DO have plans for a 51st state.   

[OSCAR]

Heh, I was watching one of those "faked the moon landing" shows on TV once and all the so-called experts that explained how we couldn't have landed on the moon had British accents.  Funny watching these scientists from a country that has never made it more than 10 stories off the ground criticize the U.S. space program...



Just in jest, of course, some of my best friends are from across the pond...