OK, I'll bite. The "if it did happen" has already lost you all actual respect on my part, which is the limit of how far I'll take it, keeping the AUP in mind, and the prohibition against actually being offensive in how a user is addressed. Especially since I lived through the event and remember staying up in my room to watch it live.
By "no dust" I assume you mean no clouds of dust, like you'd see behind a dirt bike out on the Baja or somewhere. The you almost answered it yourself. With no atmosphere, there's nothing to suspend the dust. The dust cloud you see behind vehicles on a dirt road hangs in the air, precisely because there
is air; with no air, the dust from the moon buggy's wheels simply responds to gravity and falls right back down. There can be no cloud of dust because there is no medium in which it can be suspended.
For no stars, that's actually 100% expected. Not just for pictures from the moon or from orbit. Take your phone outside tonight and take a picture of a well-lit street. Then look in the sky of that picture and see how many stars appear. The stars simply aren't bright enough to show in photographs, unless they are the
only thing in the photograph. The Apollo space suits had those gold visors because the surface of the sunlit moon is brighter than anyplace you could find on Earth; brighter than a day at the beach, brighter than a day in the mountains with snow on the ground all around you. There is no possible way to capture the dim light of the stars against that field of full sunlight, even though the sky is black. The points of light simply aren't bright enough to register in the fraction of a second that the camera's shutter is open.
Aw, heck, I'll just show you with one of my own pictures. This is from a night air show, lots of pyrotechnics, under an absolutely clear sky, very flashy. But OMG, no STARS!!!! So it's obviously 100% fake. There was never any air show, this must be CGI.
Do a Google search for "fireworks," click on the Images button. Look at ANY image that comes up and count the stars you can see. So every fireworks photo that comes up on Google is fake, because the stars don't show in the night sky? Obviously not. The answer is much simpler than that. The stars simply aren't bright enough to register against any other light source in a photograph.
To photograph a sky full of stars, you have to expose the image for 15 or 20 seconds, but to photograph a sunlit scene, you can only expose the image for something like a thousandths of a second, maybe even less. that 15 to 20 THOUSAND times more exposure to make the stars show up in a camera!
But the moon scenes are fake because the stars aren't there... really?
news.sky.com
www.space.com
www.nasa.gov
www.forbes.com
