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>>11924509
>Are there any landmarks I can see with a telescope?

No. No object left by Apollo on the moon is large enough to be resolved by the most powerful telescopes on Earth. So you cannot look with a telescope and prove they are there, or that they are not there.

FWIW, here's my favorite non-NASA corroboration. Pic related shows an image taken during APollo 15, with the lunar rover at left, and an image from the Japanese radar-mapping probe, Kaguya.

The resolution of the radar map will not show the foreground surface detail visible in the photograph, but the terrain matches perfectly, and could not have been known in the Apollo era other than by landing and taking a picture.

>>10739034
>>10739042

Here's an interesting piece of evidence from the Kaguya mission - on the left is a 3D image of the lunar surface, on the right a photograph of the same area taken during Apollo 17. The resolving power of the instruments on Kaguya used for making the image on the left is about 10 meters, so individual rocks and such in the Apollo 17 photo that are smaller than 10 meters across do not show up in the Kaguya map. Neither does the lunar rover on the left, if it was still in that position it is only about 3 meters long.

Technology capable of such imagery from orbit did not exist in the 60s. The only way to get an accurate image of that area from ground level would have been to go there and take a picture.