Are there any man-made objects visible from space??

[Irishlad74]

Hi,

What man made objects are visible from space?

Thanks

Brendan

[ELVIS68]

Vanessa Feltz

[Irishlad74]

Liking your work

[shylock73]

The Great Wall of China is visible from space and to prove it look at Google Earth and in directions type Great Wall of China.

[4GS]

Any town/city at night

Well they're man-made aren't they??

[Dagman]

According to QI many things man-made can be seen, the largest being Fresh Kils landfill at New York, ironically closed until the terrible Twin Towers attack, reopened for the debris disposal.

[Quizmonster]

According to the NASA website, the definition of where �space' begins is (quote)...
"the lowest altitude that permits a vehicle to orbit the earth without entering the earth's atmosphere. That altitude is approximately 100 km (62 miles)."
Outer space begins where the laws of aerodynamics no longer apply, which is at around 90 miles up.
So, space begins around 60 miles above the earth's surface. Thus, asking what man-made things are visible from �space' gets the answer: "From that height, there are lots of visible man-made things." These are things such as cities, roads, airports, harbours, bridges, tankers at sea and so on.
If you meant to say 'From the moon's surface...' - which is the usual form of this question - the answer is "Nothing." (Apart, that is, from the module the guys there landed in, which is on the moon with them!)
Seeing the Great Wall of China from space has been confirmed by astronauts, but seeing it from the moon - which is about a quarter of a million miles away, not just 60! - is exactly as likely as seeing a schoolboy's 12-inch ruler from 400 miles away right here on earth!

[buildersmate]

I can see why they call you Quizmonster.

[Irishlad74]

Nice One...... thanks for the answers.

Brendan

[Panic Button]

The O2 Arena (Millennium Dome?)

[Mattk]

i though that it was a myth that the great wall of china could be seen from space? when you think about it, it is only 9 metres wide at its widest point and there are many more things bigger that are not visible.

[squarebear]

But space only starts 60 miles up. Yes it is perfectly possuble to see it from there along with many, many other man-made objects.

It's seeing it from the moon that's impossible, as astronauts can barely make out continents let alone anything else.

[markja]

what about the spacestation? it's man made and the astronauts have to be able to see it to fly to it!!

[Quizmonster]

Yours is more or less exactly the same point as I made in my earlier answer, Markja. I was explaining how the only man-made object visible to men on the moon's surface was (quote)...

"...the module the guys there landed in, which is on the moon with them!"

Module...spacestation...same diff!

[jake-the-peg]

Snopes have the great wall as a myth

http://www.snopes.com/science/greatwall.asp

it seems that this was just something made up in a book in 1938 and it caught on

[squarebear]

Again, this is from the moon not space.
No man made object can be seen on Earth from the moon.

[jake-the-peg]

If we take space to be a low Earth orbit..... the claim fails twice"

[Lucy Thomas]

Mattk. You are wrong about the Great Wall of China. It is in fact only 9 feet long but over 2000 miles wide.

[Irishlad74]

So the conclusion is that Vanessa Feltz is visible from space but not from the moon!!

[Memore]

las vegas can be seen from space i believe as well as the great wall as mentioned earlier

[AzargThorta]

Everything on the surface of the earth is visible from space,
if it's not blocked by cloud cover.
My Hi-Ace van in my driveway is visible from space.
Google Earth demonstrates this.
Nothing is visible from the moon, because there's no one there. But if there was, they could see everything on the surface of the earth by using a telescope.
Stupid question.