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We totally can. But the moon is a lot further away.

• jessriedel 5y ago
  What structures?
  • fennecfoxen 5y ago
    https://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/great_wall.html https://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/great_wall....
    • jessriedel 5y ago
      That's about seeing things in photographs taken from space, not things seen with the naked eye. Like, we've all seen satellite reconnaissance photos, so we know those can see lots of important stuff.
  • markwkw 5y ago
    Astronauts can reportedly see highways, airports, dams with a naked eye from orbit.
    • jessriedel 5y ago
      Do you have a link to those reports? Highways strike me as improbable. Visibility requires thickness in 2 directions, so if they could see highways I'd expect them to see tons of stuff, like wharehouses.