traquer
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Again, your stuck on "here's why you can't see it from earth" - I don't need a crash course in the why/how of that.....
As far as taking a pic from a satellite orbiting the moon - the satellites that orbit the moon are much closer to the surface . NASA's own orbiter is 31 miles above surface. compared to they units used by Google Earth, which are 300 miles above the surface......
30 miles is far though! I had an 8" dobsonian telescope when I was a kid which was pretty powerful (thing is a few hundred pounds and over 5 feet long), and I remember living in Corona on top of the hill I would try to look at Mt Baldy and the other mountains to see if I could see people and other stuff. Obviously I couldn't (that was more like 60 miles away, yes) but yeah even without dust and atmosphere I think you'd need a really powerful zoom and nice big optics to see any more detail at 30 miles away versus what the LRO was able to already take (which is quite good). So yeah, we're kind of stuck with these photos and it's the best we can get.