Is it true that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made thing visible from the moon?

The only man-made objects visible from the moon are the lunar pod and assorted equipment left behind from the lunar landings that remain on the moon. The Great Wall is not discernible.

To substantiate Minnesota's reply, check out the link here.

The wall is long, but not wide. Viewing the wall from space would be like trying to see a spaghetti noodle from the top of Chicago's Sears building.


Mr(Linguinist)Sensitive

as the others have said, the great wall is not actually visible from space. i'm pretty sure the only man-made objects visible from space are the lights from cities

I think the great wall can be seen from the space stations. Maybe that's what caused the confusion. Possibly large cities can be seen from the stations, even in daytime.

In spite of a 30-minute search, I could only find this site with pictures from the space station:
http://www.astroscan.net/index2.html
It's a screen saver. You have to download it. See the lower right-hand picture. Granted, it's taken at night. But you sould see a city in the daytime, if cloud cover was not present. I remember reading in Bondar's book that mostly you see cloud. The speed of the station is a problem, too. You can definitely see geographic features, we've all seen those photos. But man-made things? I don't know for sure. So definitely not from moon.
This site shows pictures from the shuttle, but I don't know what height it was taken from.
http://www.nasm.edu/ceps/rpif/ssp/sf.gif

[This message was edited by babthrower on 08-15-02 at 02:19 AM.]