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    The document discusses the sizes of craters visible on the moon through different instruments, from the naked eye down to telescopes and spacecraft. The smallest craters visible to the naked eye are around 100km across, while NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter can see objects as small as 1 meter.

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    The document discusses the sizes of craters visible on the moon through different instruments, from the naked eye down to telescopes and spacecraft. The smallest craters visible to the naked eye are around 100km across, while NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter can see objects as small as 1 meter.

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    Can You See the Flag on the Moon? Let’s take a closer look

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    The document discusses the sizes of craters visible on the moon through different instruments, from the naked eye down to telescopes and spacecraft. The smallest craters visible to the naked eye are around 100km across, while NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter can see objects as small as 1 meter.

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    Flag On Moon Handout NASA

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    The document discusses the sizes of craters visible on the moon through different instruments, from the naked eye down to telescopes and spacecraft. The smallest craters visible to the naked eye are around 100km across, while NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter can see objects as small as 1 meter.

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    Can You See the Flag on the Moon?

    Let’s take a closer look.


    The smallest crater
    a human eye can
    see on the Moon
    is 100 km (60 mi)
    across. You could Through a pair of
    drive across a crater good binoculars, the
    that size in an hour... smallest crater you
    if there were lunar can see on the Moon
    freeways. is 10 km (6 mi) across.
    You could walk 10 km
    A backyard in about two hours
    telescope can here on Earth.
    (Moon image Jay Tanner)
    resolve craters about
    1 km (0.6 mi) across
    about the size of a The Hubble Space
    large neighborhood. Telescope could just
    (Moon image courtesy NASA’s Scientific make out a crater
    Visulization Studio: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4442)
    100 meters or yards
    across, the length of
    a soccer field.
    NASA’s Lunar
    (image via trek.nasa.gov/moon)
    Reconnaissance
    Orbiter can resolve
    objects about
    1 meter across and
    Astronauts first
    can just make out
    landed on the Moon
    the flag left by
    in 1969. This image
    Apollo 17 astronauts.
    (NASA/Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter)
    is from Apollo 17 in
    1972. What would
    be the largest
    feature they could
    see on Earth?
    (NASA)

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