Quirks and Quarks

Quirks Question Period - Lunar Landing Sites

A Listener asks why telescopes haven't imaged the Lunar landing sites

A Listener asks why telescopes haven't imaged the Lunar landing sites

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in 1969 (NASA)
It's the Quirks & Quarks Question Period. You think of a question, and we'll ask a Canadian scientist to tell us the answer. Today's question comes to us from Richard D'Lima - who currently lives in Bangkok, but is originally from Montreal.  He asked the following:   "Why is it we have never seen a picture of the lunar landing site - from 1969 - with the Hubble telescope or other similar telescopes?"

To help us answer this question, we set our sights on Dr. Sara Ellison, an astronomer at the University of Victoria.

Photos of Lunar Landing Sites:

- Space.com
- NASA
- Universe Today