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underpants

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Sun Jul 3, 2016, 11:33 AM Jul 2016

Ain'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.
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Ain't no party like a Jupiter party!! "Fireworks" seen by Hubble (Original Post) underpants Jul 2016 OP
'Cause a Jupiter party don't stop? wyldwolf Jul 2016 #1
Aaaaaah YISSS MynameisBlarney Jul 2016 #2
Heavy, man .. DemoTex Jul 2016 #3
I wish they would point Hubble at the moon and get detailed images of our landings. Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2016 #4
The Hubble can't image objects on the Moon well enough to do that. Just reading posts Jul 2016 #5
That's a shame. Was hoping to end the "we never went" nonsense. Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2016 #8
Oh, that nonsense is over....to anyone not willfully blind to the overwhelming evidence. Just reading posts Jul 2016 #9
It's already been ended, and we don't need the Hubble to do it. Warren DeMontague Jul 2016 #11
There are imagers in lunar orbit that can do this. Frank Cannon Jul 2016 #6
Those are mostly for maps. Hubble could see the treadmarks in Armstrong's boots.... Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2016 #7
Here's one such image: Just reading posts Jul 2016 #10
But... But... But.... WHERE ARE THE GOLF BALLS? Warren DeMontague Jul 2016 #12
 

Just reading posts

(688 posts)
5. The Hubble can't image objects on the Moon well enough to do that.
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 02:37 PM
Jul 2016
http://hubblesite.org/reference_desk/faq/answer.php.cat=topten&id=77

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.
 

Just reading posts

(688 posts)
9. Oh, that nonsense is over....to anyone not willfully blind to the overwhelming evidence.
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 03:19 PM
Jul 2016

The laser reflectors alone prove we went there.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
11. It's already been ended, and we don't need the Hubble to do it.
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 04:35 PM
Jul 2016

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)
6. There are imagers in lunar orbit that can do this.
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 02:43 PM
Jul 2016

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

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7. Those are mostly for maps. Hubble could see the treadmarks in Armstrong's boots....
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 03:12 PM
Jul 2016

Not to mention the flag that got knocked over when they lifted off.

 

Just reading posts

(688 posts)
10. Here's one such image:
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 03:22 PM
Jul 2016


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.
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