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Originally posted by WatchNLearn
Unfortunately the story goes that there are no telescopes on earth or Hubble that can zoom in to spot something that small.
But why is it they can spot a license plate on a car from space?
On October 3, it reached the moon and entered an initial 101 by 11741 km polar orbit.[12] On October 9, the relay satellite was released to an approximately 100 by 2400 km orbit, and on October 12 the VLBI satellite was released to an approximately 100 by 800 km orbit.[3] Finally, by October 19, the orbiter moved to an approximately 100 km circular orbit.[13] The nominal operation of the mission is one year, with extension if possible.
JAXA announced on October 31, 2007 that Kaguya deployed its Lunar Magnetometer, Lunar Radar Sounder, as well as the Earth-looking Upper Atmosphere and Plasma Imager.
JAXA announced on December 21, 2007 that the operation mode of the lunar explorer, KAGUYA, was shifted to regular operations from its initial verification on December 21, 2007 (Japan Standard Time) as they were able to acquire satisfactory verification results for all fifteen observation missions.
By the end of October 2008, Kaguya completed the planned operation, and entered an extended operation phase. It is planned to continue through March 2009, then lower the orbit to 50km height circular orbit, and to 20km - 100km elliptic orbit, and by August 2009, the controlled collision to the lunar surface.[14]
Originally posted by Revolution-2012
reply to post by Razimus
I'm actually not saying that we didn't land.
I'm just clarifying the fact everyone can shut up about it when we get a picture of the buggy.
Although don't get your hopes up, they will be photoshoping the alien bases on the moon
Originally posted by WatchNLearn
Unfortunately the story goes that there are no telescopes on earth or Hubble that can zoom in to spot something that small.
But why is it they can spot a license plate on a car from space?
Anyways, they are suppose to be sending a lunar orbiter up pretty soon or they already did, and that should photograph the buggy.
Originally posted by Chadwickus
Erm they DID land on the moon, how do you think these Lunar Retroreflectors got there?