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Earth-based telescopes can't be used to find an Apollo lander on the moon. It's just too damn far. A crater on Mars is a notch up from that.

Some great info about just why this is so impossible: http://calgary.rasc.ca/moonscope.htm

Interesting - how is it they can accurately target the puny "lunar laser ranging retroreflector array" but not see the landers?

Awesome! I see they lost the Soviet Lunokhod 1 array for nearly 40 years!