Why we can't see the Apollo lunar landers on the Moon from Earth.
Why we can't see the Apollo lunar landers on the Moon from Earth. Apollo Lunar Lander. When you look at the moon, just remember that somewhere on lunar face the remains of Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 along with eight unmanned Russian lunar missions and five pre Apollo unmanned American surveyor missions are all still there silently looking back, unless of course you're a NASA non-believer. So why can't we see these from Earth, why can't we train our best telescopes on to the moon's surface and see them exactly where we left them the best part of 50 years ago. The Apollo 11 lunar landing module Eagle, with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard, is photographed above the moon by crew mate Michael Collins on the Columbia command module during rendezvous operations on July 21, 1969. Well there's a bit of a problem and that is that the moon is 384,000 kilometers or 238,000 miles away an...