The reasons for changes in temperature on the moon?
374004
the source of heat on the lunar surface is sunlight.  the surface is heated directly by sunlight.  there is no atmosphere on the moon so it is not air temperature.\n\nhttp://www.asi.org/adb/m/03/05/average-temperatures.html
1095283
It's because the velocity of the moon pulls the moon outwards and the gravity of the Earth pulls it inward.
651257
The immediate effect would be no tides and no large area of high atmospheric pressure toward the moon.  The long-term effect would be the end of life on Earth.  The moon holds the earth's tilt to a small range of precession.  A wobble of only 0.5 degrees created the Sahara desert 6,000 years ago.  Planets with no large moon wobble by 30 degrees or more.  It would cause a climate shifting catastrophe.  Imagine if Texas  received 6 months of sunlight like the north pole.
202062
Global Warming is cause by solar activity.  The increase in the number of sun spots causes the earth to warm.  The temperatures were hotter in the 1920 than now.  The hurricanes were also just as bad then as now.  A rise in CO2 from 1/4% to 1/3% in the atmosphere has no impact on global temperature.  The scientific community has only been accurately measuring temperatures for 30 years.  The only validated temperature measurement of the earth is from the polar satellite.  In 30 years it has only seen on temperature anomaly.  A rise of 1/4 of a degree caused by the full moon.  No other measurement system has shown the accuracy to measure this rise.  Therefore they are not! The polar ice cap has only been watched for 30 years by satellite.  No one measured it before, so how can they say it is now melting for all time.  They don’t know, they are drawing 1000 year conclusions with 30 years of data.  Not possible, not valid.
19132
It's quite simple... it's either too hot or too cold.  Some planets and moons do have signs of ice, or ice which was there at some point in time.  Certainly somewhere outside of our solar system exists a planet with abundant water, but we've yet to discover such a place.
869305
The appearance of the Moon is also dependent on the fact the the Earth is rotating on its axis. Objects appear at the horizon, drift overhead and slip below the horizon again. that is the main reason the Moon looks as it does.\n\n;-D The Moon is romantic! Let's not forget that!
622916
Because the moon isn't constant, it changes. Sometimes it's full, other times it's not there. She wants to swear by something that won't change, because she feels that her love won't change.
731552
No, rain is caused by the evaporation of water into the atmosphere and there is no water on the moon.
448631
The Moon does not produce any heat on its own.  The temperature on the surface is dependent upon the amount of sunlight it is receiving at that time.  There is no known water on the Moon so it is very much affected by hydrostatic electricty; much as we are on a day with very low humidity.  Hence the surface particles tend to stand apart creating microfissures which absorb sunlight resulting in a rather low reflectivity even tho the Moon appears bright.  Under other conditions it could be even brighter.
146839
Here's information from NASA.\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html\n\nHere's the wikipedia entry,\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
709370
For weather you need hot and cold, wind and rain, snow and ice, and sunshine. The earth has plenty of those, and our weather is a world-wide heat-engine driven by the sun, the rotation of the earth, and the tilt of the earth's rotation axis with respect to its orbital plane as it orbits the sun. Thus we get night and day (hot and cold), seasons (rain, snow and ice), and cloudy or sunny days (and cloudy nights too, but it's hard to see clouds at night; and the Moon provides us with somewhat "sunny" nights a few nights every month).\n\nThe moon has plenty of hot and cold and sunshine, so some "weathering" of its surface does occur over billions of years of time, due to heat expansion and cold contraction of "stuff" on its surface. But without wind (no atmosphere) and rain, snow, and ice (no water) there is nothing to cause real weather like we have here on earth.
751975
Oh yeah, would it ever. Think about all the things the moon affects, everything womens menstration to the tides, if we didnt have a moon all of that would get out of balance. Think about all the organisms that live on the tide line, the ones that need both the air and the water there, how many animals count on that cycle just to live. Also alot of migratory paterns of animals depend on the moon as well. Thats a little off topic, but yeah the moon not being there would totaly screw up weather too!
758796
First of all it is a significant body.  At one time it was geologically active therefore had a molten interior and rotation similar to the earth.  Over time due to the combination of gravity, rotation and geological activity the moon developed a round shape.  The moon has long since been "dead" and its rotation slowed due to the earths gravitonal pull so now its rotational period precisely matches it revolution around the Earth.
837272
atmosphere is created when gravity holds all the gas molecules around it, like earth's gravity is holding all the nitrogen/oxygen/water vapor/etc around it.  since the moon doesn't have as much gravity, it can't hold in the same atmosphere.  the atmosphere and humidity around a planet also absorb and hold heat.  when the sun sets on earth, the temperature doesn't change drastically, even though the sun's not providing heat anymore, because the atmosphere is hanging on to the heat it absorbed during the day.  if there is less atmosphere to absorb the heat, once the sun goes down the temperature will drop drastically.\n\nI'm not sure about the craters, but my guess is that the moon is more cratered because there's no erosion.  on a planet like earth, water and wind constantly wash across the surface and erode any irregularities like craters, so the surface is relatively smooth.  on the moon, there's no water and no wind (no atmosphere = no wind), so there's no erosion to smooth out the craters.
646581
Undoubtedly our moon has been impacted by asteroids and other objects that otherwise would have struck Earth. If the moon wasn't there, then it follows that we might be struck more frequently.
78332
There's always been heavy debate as to whether or not we've actually been to the moon, etc. and there is actual evidence that we haven't. maybe what you're seeing is a farce, maybe it's just some scientific anomaly. Who outside of the space program can say for sure?
57964
Actually, the Earth does move ever so slightly closer and farther from the sun at different times of the year. However, this is not what causes the change in temperature. The change in temperature is mainly caused by the tilt of the earth towards or away from the sun. So, for us in the Northern Hemisphere....during the winter, the northern axis of the earth is tilted slightly away from the sun. This means that the suns rays during the day are less direct on this part of the world. It's also why the sun seems to always be in your eyes during winter driving. It never rises far above the horizon.