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There are several mirrors on the Moon, mostly left there by NASA Apollo missions. They are actually designed for visible light (lasers), not radio. The basic design is called a "corner reflector".
If you arange 3 mirrors in a shape like the corner of a rectangular box, with the reflectors on the inside, then any light which hits the reflectors, at essentially any angle, will bounce off each mirror and end up heading back exactly the direction from which it came. This makes such a mirror arrangement very useful, because you always get a nice strong reflection. www.exploratorium.edu... is a good place to look for more about corner reflectors.
For descriptions of the reflectors left on the Moon by the Apollo 11, 14, and 15 missions, see nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov...
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov...
and nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov...
For some information about how the reflectors were used to measure the distance to the Moon, see www.eso.org... www2.jpl.nasa.gov/files/universe/un940729.txt and www.ridgenet.net...
Originally posted by Netchicken
Hasn't this topic been thrashed to death by now? who needs any more facts? BTW is this fallacy even political?
Originally posted by Netchicken
You can't see the moon landing equipment from the earth. Its too dark to pick out the equipment, even with a big telescope, so I read.
Originally posted by John Nada
I would love to see pictures of such UnMature, that would pretty much put it to bed once and for all...
Originally posted by UnMature
Ta Da: From Apollo 16 landing's site:
Originally posted by Terapin
I'll never understand why anyone would believe that we couldnt have landed on the moon. We had the knowhow and resourses. It seems much easyer to actualy go there than to get several thousand people who were involved in the mission to agree to fake it and then never tell a soul. Ever try and get a bunch of friends to keep a total secret about something realy big??