If the moon landing was faked, why are retro reflectors returning light?

a reply to: Quarantine

"If the moon landings were faked, how come there are reflectors on the moon?"

A similar device was also included on the Soviet Union's Lunakhod 2 spacecraft.

You more or less answered your own question by including the above quote...Lunakhod was a robotic Lunar mission AKA..NOT manned!

See what i mean?

a reply to: CJCrawley

If I shine a light at a mirror I expect all the light to be reflected.

That might not be considered a reasonable expectation.

At the Moon's surface, the beam is about 6.5 kilometers wide

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a reply to: DenyObfuscation

Obviously then the beam is not hitting any man-made mirrors but is simply being reflected off the Moon's surface.

In the same article it says that lasers were first "successfully" fired at the Moon in 1962...seven years before Apollo 11 supposedly planted the retroreflectors.

a reply to: CJCrawley

I would imagine, that surface of the Moon would change wavelength of light more than mirrors.

a reply to: korath

"It provides a measurement of the round trip distance between the Earth and the moon" And? Is that the only experiment?

Of course not. Here are some links to help you explore all of the experiments they performed. It is the data from these experiments that are the best evidence for the reality of the Apollo Missions. There is too much to fake, and the data would have had to be faked by the scientists who are evaluating it.

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Incidentally, these are just the unclassified experiments. The unspoken goal of the space program was to develop technology that can also be used for military and espionage purposes. They couldn't do that faking it in an abandoned warehouse in Los Angeles.

How often would they have to check to see how far away the moon is? And why?

Here you go:

APOLLO (the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation) measures the round-trip travel time of laser pulses bounced off the lunar retroreflectors to a precision of a few picoseconds, corresponding to about one millimeter of precision in range to the moon. Using this information, we will be able to gauge the relative acceleration of the earth and moon toward the sun (like a modern-day Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment) in order to ascertain the free-fall properties of earth's gravitational self-energy.

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There are other reasons as well; the Earth-Moon system is affected by numerous other perturbations that can be detected by measuring the slight changes in their relationship.

a reply to: CJCrawley

Obviously then the beam is not hitting any man-made mirrors but is simply being reflected off the Moon's surface.

But the reflectors return much more light.