Re: Bad News for 'Moon Hoax' Buffs

From: George (george_at_wtfiswrongwithyou.com)
Date: 03/08/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 05:43:56 GMT

"chosp" <chosp@cox.net> wrote in message
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> "Uncle Al" <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote in message
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>> The Hubble could not tolerate the light intensity even if it had the
>> resolution.
>
> Not true. Hubble has imaged the moon.
> The problem is both the angular resolution of a 98 inch mirror
> and that the moon is moving too fast for Hubble to lock
> on to properly - so some resolution is lost to slight motion blur.
>

It sure has. Here are the images:

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1999/14/

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