Is it true the moon affects the surface of the land in a similar way to the oceans?
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Yes, and not only does it affect the land, it also affects everything else comprised of atoms, which is everything-Including You!!\nDepending on which side of the earth you are on, or which side you are closest to. If you are on the moon side then  you actually wiegh less because the earth and moon are both pulling on you, but in opposite directions, thus the moon diminishes the earths gravittional pull on you if even only by a tiny amount. If you are on the side opposite the moon, then the earth and moon have a combined pull, resulting in a stronger gravitational pull on you. \nAll mass has this same affect on all other mass, however it is more evident when there are large masses involved, such as the moon.\n\nHappy full moon.
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Moon AFFECTS the earth on whole, the effect of it is the tilt in earth's axis. And the tide is because the water is not exactly fixed with the surface of earth and it gets attracted towards moon. We could have also seen a 'land tide' but bcoz it is solid it is more firmly fixed to earth.
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I would guess that it would slow down as some water is redistributed toward the equator.  This slowing would be imperceptable without the use of atomic clocks.  It would also be affected in another way.\nThe effect of the moon's gravity on the oceans is causing the rotation of the earth to slow.  Kind of a drag.  One day, the earth and moon will be in locked step, with the moon in the same place in the sky 24 hours a day.
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As others mentioned, the moon has no atmosphere of its own for weather patterns to develop. \n\nThe only wind the moon (or Earth) experiences is the Solar wind.  The solar wind consists of highly energy ions in the form of a plasma.  While the solar wind can effect radio signals and such, it isn't going to do anything to Neil Armstrong's footprints.\n\nThe only thing that truly disturbs the moon surface is impacts by meteorites.  This is evident by the many craters we can see.
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Yes, the moon spins (or rotates) once for each revolution (orbit).  This happens because the moon is "tidally locked" to the earth.  \n\nThe moon exerts tidal forces on the earth because it pulls harder on the part of the earth closer to the moon and less hard on the part of the earth father from the moon.  The result is tides--the ocean bulges up on the side close to the moon because of the harder pull and actually bulges up away from the moon on the far side because of the weaker pull.\n\nThe earth also exerts tidal fores on the moon.  The moon has no oceans (and never did), but the solid rock of the moon bulged.  The moon used to spin much faster, but bulging and rotating causes friction, which slowed the moon's rotation until it keeps one face toward the earth.  Thus, the bulge is fixed in one place on the moon and no more friction!
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Tides on earth\nThe gravitational attraction that the Moon exerts on Earth is the cause of tides in the sea. The tidal flow period, but not the phase, is synchronized to the Moon's orbit around Earth. The tidal bulges on Earth, caused by the Moon's gravity, are carried ahead of the apparent position of the Moon by the Earth's rotation, in part because of the friction of the water as it slides over the ocean bottom and into or out of bays and estuaries. As a result, some of the Earth's rotational momentum is gradually being transferred to the Moon's orbital momentum, resulting in the Moon slowly receding from Earth at the rate of approximately 38 millimetres per year. At the same time the Earth's rotation is gradually slowing, the Earth's day thus lengthens by about 15 µs every year. A more detailed discussion follows in the section titled Earth & Moon\n\nEarth & Moon\nTidal effects\n  \nThe tides on Earth are mostly generated by the Moon's gravitation, with a less significant contribution by the Sun. These gravitational effects are specifically manifested as tidal forces. The combination of the two is responsible for spring and neap tides. Two tidal bulges, one in the direction of the Moon, and one in the opposite direction (figure 1) form as a result of the tidal forces. The buildup of these bulges and their movement around the earth causes an energy loss due to friction. The energy loss decreases the rotational energy of the Earth.\n\nSince the Earth spins faster than the Moon moves around it, the tidal bulges are dragged along with the Earth's surface faster than the Moon moves, and move "in front of the Moon" (figure 2). Because of this, the Earth's gravitational pull on the Moon has a component in the Moon's "forward" direction with respect to its orbit. This component of the gravitational forces between the two bodies acts like a torque on the Earth's rotation, and transfers angular momentum and rotational energy from the Earth's spin to the Moon's orbital movement.\n\n \nGalileo spacecraft took this picture of the Earth-moon system \nLunar librationBecause the Moon is accelerated in the forward direction, it moves to a higher orbit. As a result, the distance between the Earth and Moon increases, and the Earth's spin slows down (figure 3). Measurements reveal that, at present, the Moon's distance to the Earth increases by 38 mm per year (lunar laser ranging experiments with laser reflectors are used to determine this). Atomic clocks also show that the Earth's day lengthens by about 15 microseconds (µs) every year.\n\nThis effect is expected to continue until the spin of the Earth has slowed to match the orbital period of the Moon. At that point the tidal effect of the Sun will dominate, further slowing the Earth and thereafter causing the orbit of the Moon to steadily shrink. However these effects would not be expected to occur until long after the Sun has become a red giant.\n\nHowever, the formation of tidal bulges on Earth is irregular and not directly related to the frictional energy loss which accompanies the tides. For example, continents on Earth may cause an increase in frictional energy losses and hamper the buildup of tidal bulges (figure 4).\n\nThe lunar surface is also subjected to tides from earth, and rises and falls by around 10 cm over 27 days. The lunar tides comprise a mobile component, due to the Sun, and a selenographically fixed one, due to Earth (the Moon keeps the same face turned to the Earth, but not to the Sun). The vertical motion of the Earth-induced component comes entirely from the Moon's orbital eccentricity; if the Moon's orbit were perfectly circular, there would be solar tides only. The magnitude of the Moon's tides corresponds to a Love number of 0.0266, and supports the idea of a partially melted zone around its core. Moonquake waves lose energy below 1,000 kilometres in depth, and thi
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The forces that the moon produces on the earth are very small. There is a periodic signal in barometric pressure corresponding to the atmospheric tide. However, my understanding is that there is no strong statistical evidence that tidal forcing has any effect on weather. It is possible that there is some subtle effect that might be uncovered, but it will not be easy. Even the effects of variations in the solar constant are not clearly seen in climate data.\n\n-----------\n\nAddendum: one does not need fancy equipment or satellites to measure the solid earth tide. It is a couple of feet, and it can be observed easy with accelerometers, and has been seen for decades.
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i would generally say no its not, as the atmosphere is only between 5 adn 10 miles high, the moon is considerably further away than this.\n\ncant explainy why its like this has something to do with the creation of the solar system the mood being far away and such.
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The desity of water makes it more suseptable to the pull of the moon's gravitation. Depening on it's course around the earth throughout the year the tides follow in it's wake. Not just hight tide and low tide are effected byt this but swells and tsunamis. The tides are also effected by plate techtonics but science has yet to decide whether the causation is more that plate tectonics are effected by the same gravitational pull as the ocean tides or my subterrainian thermo tides.
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The plane of the orbit of the moon is close to the plane of the ecliptic, so the curve of the earth takes you a little bit closer to the moon in the tropical regions.  Therefore: Hawaii.\n\nBut it's not a big effect---not big enough to be noticable by eye.  The moon appears almost the same size from everywhere on earth.
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The waters of the oceans are pulled downwards by gravity; they flow around the planet in currents.  The continents shift and drift and the water flows into the spaces left.  The moon's gravity pulls the water and creates tides.  The waters of our little planet are in constant motion.
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The main reason is that there is no weather on the moon to erode the surface.  Additionally, there is no tectonic movement of the surface of the moon.  Because of both these things, the surface of the moon is stable, while the earth's surface is constantly being altered.
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Techtonic scientist who study continental drift (which is ongoing) believe that at one time long ago almost all land masses were collected into a huge circle called Pangea (meaning all land).  When it split up to drift into present locations it was probably pure coincidence why pointy parts of land masses pointed one way rather than another.  My pet theory is that luna tides (that affect the oceans and earth's crust) may have biased the direction of "cracks" in the land masses, but perhaps I'm just a luna-tick.  Incidentally the term lunatic originally applied to scientists who met once a month when they could travel at night with the aid of the light of a full moon.
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Depending on the angle of the light, mountains and craters will cast shadows, but the large patches of darker material on the moon which help to define the "man in the moon" are known as lunar mares. These mares, or "seas" are actually basaltic plains caused by basaltic eruptions on the moon when it was young and geologically active.
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The moon controls the tide depending on the position of the moon depends on high tide low tide. the gravitational field strength of earth is affected. The moon has an affect on water controlling the waves and as the human body is made up over 70% water, it can have an affect on humans changing moods etc. hope this helps
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No, rain is caused by the evaporation of water into the atmosphere and there is no water on the moon.
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Tides will become weaker. Other MINOR affects will change our planet, slight changes in the time a season changes. However you should not worry. The moon is thousands of miles away. The moon only gets about 1 inch further every year. 10000 years from now it still will not make a difference. And if the sapce program does what it is claiming to do. This cycle could be slowed down slightly... maybe 7/8 of an inch instead if they really wanted to but that would ba a useless waste of time, money, resources, and brain power. Don't worry the moon wont affect anything for a few million or billion years.