Cyn, I don't believe Hubble did more than the rex pics. The pic with the buggy was from '72. Hubble can't resolve with sub-20ft detail from Earth Orbit, can it?
Hey, here's a great answer from slashdot.
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The highest resolution Hubble is capable of is 0.0072 arc-seconds.
An arc-second is defined such that a 1 meter object will appear as 1 arc-second at a distance of 206,256 meters.
The distance from Hubble (~600km orbit) to the moon (~384,400km) is ... well, about 383,800 km
So if Hubble produced an image with 1 pixel-per-arcsecond resolution, a pixel would be 1.86 kilometers. But the highest resolution is 0.0072 arc-seconds, or about 140 times better than that.
So the smallest object Hubble can see on the moon is 13 meters wide.
Neither the lander module or the rover are that big. Not even close. Good luck finding something that's less than a pixel wide!
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Anyway there's supposed to be an EU satellite going into moon orbit next year. Part of their plan is to check out old landing zones. We should hear the end of this stuff soon.
Now, just imagine the swarming theories should the EU sat suffer any failure.
