Can astronauts see the Great Wall of China from the Moon?

Can astronauts see the Great Wall of China from the Moon?

The Apollo astronauts confirmed that you can’t see the Great Wall of China from the Moon. In fact, all you can see from the Moon is the white and blue marble of our home planet. With all of the human construction, many buildings and other structures can be seen from space.

What is the only man made object you can see from the moon?

The Great Wall of China

What is the brightest city on earth?

Hong Kong is considered the world’s brightest city, emitting 1,000 times more light than the international average.

What is the brightest place on Earth?

The Vegas Strip

Are the astronauts still in space?

The current ISS occupants are NASA astronauts Megan McArthur, Mark Vande Hei, Kimbrough, Hopkins, Walker and Glover; JAXA’s Noguchi and Akihiko Hoshide; the European Space Agency’s Thomas Pesquet; and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov.

Where is Voyager 2 right now?

Voyager 2 is now in its extended mission of studying Interstellar Space and has been operating for 43 years, 10 months and 19 days as of May 28, 2021, reaching a distance of 126.9 AU (19.0 billion km; 11.8 billion mi) from Earth.

Will Voyager 1 ever stop?

How long can Voyager 1 and 2 continue to function? Voyager 1 is expected to keep its current suite of science instruments on through 2021. Voyager 2 is expected to keep its current suite of science instruments on through 2020. The radioisotope thermoelectric generator on each spacecraft puts out 4 watts less each year.

How fast is Voyager 2 in mph?

35,000 mph

Can Voyager still take pictures?

There will be no more pictures; engineers turned off the spacecraft’s cameras, to save memory, in 1990, after Voyager 1 snapped the famous image of Earth as a “pale blue dot” in the darkness. Out there in interstellar space, where Voyager 1 roams, there’s “nothing to take pictures of,” Dodd said.