ChuckJr
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Not taken with a telescope on Earth (or even orbiting Earth).Now that's some funny shit! We have better pictures of Mars which is 238 million miles away,
Here's the best picture Hubble has ever taken of Mars.
![esahubble.org](/community/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.esahubble.org%2Farchives%2Fimages%2Fscreen%2Fopo0322a.jpg&hash=d96bf471c8dcec489a1f72ae4c56fd81&return_error=1)
Hubble's Closest View of Mars
Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using the Hubble telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. The telescope snapped these pictures between April 27 and May 6, 1999, when Mars was 87 million kilometres...
![opo0322a.jpg opo0322a.jpg](https://www.cigarpass.com/community/data/attachments/57/57134-6d4e652a3de48684238eb2d64c92cc63.jpg)
Reading the link I posted above yields this:
"As you're well aware, no telescope on Earth can see the leftover descent stages of the Apollo Lunar Modules or anything else Apollo-related. Not even the Hubble Space Telescope can discern evidence of the Apollo landings. The laws of optics define its limits.
Hubble's 94.5-inch mirror has a resolution of 0.024″ in ultraviolet light, which translates to 141 feet (43 meters) at the Moon's distance. In visible light, it's 0.05″, or closer to 300 feet. Given that the largest piece of equipment left on the Moon after each mission was the 17.9-foot-high by 14-foot-wide Lunar Module, you can see the problem."