Moon Landing

Stars in the Lunar Sky

Pictures of astronauts sent from the Moon don't include stars in the dark lunar sky. How could that be? Did NASA's film makers forget to turn on the stars? Most people who take photos know the answer: it's hard to take a picture of something very bright and something else very dim on the same photo. Ever watch a TV program or movie with outdoor night scenes? Unless the movie producers fake stars in the sky, or use special cameras, you just don't see stars. The cameras are adjusted for the actors, and the stars in the background are too dim to see.

Question regarding: �it's hard to take a picture of something very bright and something else very dim on the same photo.�

Since the background is dark and at least some stars are rather bright (and rather large), wouldn't they have to be on the photograph? But maybe stars appear/look different in space?

Regarding "people who take photos": This makes sense to someone like me who has a simple camera, but I assume that NASA�s cameras were much more sophisticated.

A Waving Flag

Everyone has seen the video of astronauts planting a US flag on the Moon. You can see the flag flexing and rippling. How can that be? There's no breeze on the Moon. But then, there's no atmosphere, either. When the astronauts planted the flagpole they twisted it back and forth to sink it into the lunar soil. On the Earth, that would have made the flag "wave" for a few seconds, then stop. But that's because the flag pushes against air as it flaps, and the air slows it down. On the Moon, there was no air to stop the flag's motion, so it continued, just as Newton's First Law of physics says it should. So of course the cloth flag waved and rippled beneath the metal rod holding it out. Source http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/avantgo/stage/news-moonlanding. asp

My Question: Is this a plausible explanation?