Why are there no pictures of the lunar lander/ rover from earth or a space telescope???

because they can't see into the studio from there.

The lunar lander/rover is too tiny to be seen in a telescope that is on or near Earth. As Grover says, the mirrors left behind can still be seen reflecting laser beams aimed at them from Earth.

The lunar lander is only 5 feet wide. No ground or space telescope has the resolution to take a decent picture. Photos have been taken from orbiting spacecraft, though they just look like shadows.

All the devices left on the moon are too small even for the Hubble Space Telescope to resolve them.

"While Hubble wasn't specifically designed to look at the Moon – it only has the resolution of a football field for an object so close ..."

Quoted from:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/051019_hubbl...

The moon is approximately 1/4 million miles away. To see anything as small as the landers would require a much bigger telescope than Hubble.

There is no telescope large enough to zoom in close enough on a small object like that. From earth, it would be too fuzzy looking, due to the heat waves in the earth's atmosphere.

Because its too far away. You can see the Hubble Telescope's closest pictures of Mars here:

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/...

Simply because no telescope yet has the resolving power needed to see those things.

Too far!

Best they did was to leave a mirror for bouncing a laser beam from earth.

Space aliens towed them away for parking in a restricted zone.

yeah, right, you try to get a photograph of something the size of a car 240,000 miles away that is moving 1,000 miles an hour, while you are also moving 1,000 miles an hour the opposite direction.

I have friends that are astronomers that have found them and the mirror that MacDonald's observatory shoots lasers at.