New images of Mars suggest it had lakes on its surface as recently as ...

God works in mysterious ways!

3 billion years - not exactly that recent really. Even in planetary terms.

I was looking at pics of Mars last night

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2008/details/cut/PSP_005558_9040_cut_b.jpg

Earth and Moon from Mars.

http://hirise-test.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2008/details/cut/PSP_008591_2485_cut_e.jpg

And one of the Phoenix Lander which got me thinking.

Its only 3 metres across, not much bigger than a human. If we can photograph that then why haven't we photographed the Apollo missions with the same detail? I've no doubt the man landed on the Moon so I'm not trying to defend any hoax theories.

heh heh heh

they have ....

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html

I've posted that link myself in Moon hoax topics.

Its not of the same clarity though. Mars is a bigger world, the orbiter would be at a higher height from the surface and also have an atmosphere to look through.

I'm curious as to why the Moon hasn't been mapped in such detail yet its a lot closer than Mars.

You KNOW why. heh heh heh

The Moon is an illusion. It's not really there.

Not that I'm arguing Oval, but the Martian atmosphere is not very thick (100th of ours?), and it isn't that much bigger than the moon. I should imagaine the orbiter has much higher resolution imaging capabilities than the last things which went round the moon.