Is the sun visible if you're standing on the moon?

[webtrekker]

'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.' - Willy Wonka

 

[SHISHKABOB]

Do not forget that a the time of the moon landings we were at the peak of the cold war. The Soviets were watching everything we did. You can bet that every radio transmission was monitored if there had been the even the slightest hint of trickery the Soviets would have been screaming bloody murder. To me the existence of a competing power attempting the same feat is the best assurance that we did indeed go to the moon.

but what if the USSR was in on it too D:

 

[enosis_]

but what if the USSR was in on it too D:

Funny stuff!

 

[Vanadium 50]

1) launch a big manned rocket, get in an orbit around moon, let them chat with Earth a bit (the rocket was there, that was easy to track from earth). Develop an automatic system capable of landing several tons of mass on moon. Develop some robot to distribute various objects around the landing spot, including retroreflectors, flags, rovers and footprints. Let the system launch again (we have some hundred kg of rock from moon) and dock to the astronauts in orbit. Get everything back. Find some way to simulate moon-conditions on earth, film movies there. Find some way to keep a conspiracy involving at least 1000 humans secret.
2) Same as above just without the conspiracy, advanced robots and movies filmed on earth, simply let the astronauts enter that lander and do some tasks manually, including "walk on moon and leaving footprints".

All I’m saying is, if they took all the money they spent trying to make a decent Hulk movie, they could probably just make an actual Hulk.

OK, enough with the moon landing conspiracy theories, and back to discussing the actual science.

 

[Brainiac2]

yes unless it is a lunar eclipse on the earth
:D

Or if you are standing on the dark side of the moon facing away from the sun.

 

[enosis_]

My educated guess is that you can see the sun if you were standing on the moon. Having said that, why isn't there any pictures of the sun taken by astronauts who've "supposedly" walked on the moon..? This seems odd to me.

I think this is a good question. After searching a bit - it seems the primary photography target is Earth.

 

[trollcast]

There are a couple of pictures of the sun taken from the moon from the Apollo 17 on this web site

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/catalog/70mm/magazine/?134

The picture reference numbers are AS17-134-20410 and AS17-134-20411

I think this is a good question. After searching a bit - it seems the primary photography target is Earth.

There were pictures taken of the sun, not sure if they were intentional or not as previously has been said the cameras could have been damaged by direct shots of the sun.