alt txt: "I mean, it's pretty, but it doesn't really affect us beyond that. Except that half the nights aren't really dark, and once or twice a day it makes the oceans flood the coasts."
Interesting thing about the moon... it actually does affect a lot.
Without it, earth days would be shorter, climate would be much less stable, earth would rotate faster, and the axis would be less stable. The tidal forces it creates also helps maintain the molten, liquid core, and with that, the magnetic field generated by it, which keeps cosmic radiation at bay.
If the moon were to disappear, most life probably would follow.
That being said, its orbit is gradually expanding. It's thought that it will eventually leave our orbit and become a moon to Venus... not anywhere near our lifetimes, though.
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Date: 2023-08-01 12:14 am (UTC)Without it, earth days would be shorter, climate would be much less stable, earth would rotate faster, and the axis would be less stable. The tidal forces it creates also helps maintain the molten, liquid core, and with that, the magnetic field generated by it, which keeps cosmic radiation at bay.
If the moon were to disappear, most life probably would follow.
That being said, its orbit is gradually expanding. It's thought that it will eventually leave our orbit and become a moon to Venus... not anywhere near our lifetimes, though.