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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAin't no party like a Jupiter party!! "Fireworks" seen by Hubble
https://mobile.twitter.com/HubbleTelescope/status/748575350330920963/photo/1
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/01/health/hubble-jupiter-juno-auroras/index.html
(CNN)The Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of glowing auroras over Jupiter just days before NASA's new Juno spaceship arrives to orbit the gas giant.
"These auroras are very dramatic and among the most active I have ever seen," said Jonathan Nichols from the University of Leicester, UK, and principal investigator of the study.
wyldwolf
(43,873 posts)MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)DemoTex
(25,407 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
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(688 posts)Can Hubble see the Apollo landing sites on the Moon?
No, Hubble cannot take photos of the Apollo landing sites.
An object on the Moon 4 meters (4.37 yards) across, viewed from HST, would be about 0.002 arcsec in size. The highest resolution instrument currently on HST is the Advanced Camera for Surveys at 0.03 arcsec. So anything we left on the Moon cannot be resolved in any HST image. It would just appear as a dot.
Spitfire of ATJ
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(688 posts)The laser reflectors alone prove we went there.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)As others have noted, the Hubble isn't designed for that. If you've ever pointed a backyard telescope at the moon, you know how significantly brighter than anything else in the night sky, the moon is. No point in fucking with the Hubble's extremely sensitive light-detection equipment just to debunk idiotic conspiracy theories.
Anyway, a few years ago the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission took hi-def photos of several landing sites.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/lro-briefing-20110906.html#.V3l1kzX52MU
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/revisited/
Here's Apollo 17: You can see the descent stage as well as the ALSEP equipment left by the astronauts and the lunar rover tracks-
Here's Apollo 11 for comparison. As you can see, they didn't really migrate all that far from the LM, and understandably so. The mission was mostly about landing and getting back in one piece.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)Not with any remarkable detail, but enough to make out the landing sites and the Rover tracks leading to and from them.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Not to mention the flag that got knocked over when they lifted off.
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(688 posts)The paths left by astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell on both Apollo 14 moon walks are visible in this image. (At the end of the second moon walk, Shepard famously hit two golf balls.) The descent stage of the lunar module Antares is also visible.