The moon is not just for light or space exploration. It’s really a valuable asset to the earth to survive. Without the moon tidal waves would stop and stop renewing the crust of the planet. In this essay I am going to cover tides, stable axial tilt, and metals. Also in millions thought the moon was made out of cheese.
The moon controls the ocean tides. In the open ocean the sea level rises about 3 feet or 1 meter over the low tide. The moon lifts a part of a entire ocean. The Bay of Fundi has the highest tides of 45 feet. The moon creates tides of it’s pool of it’s gravity. The moon travels around the world in a month. Every day the ocean has 2 high tides and 2 low tides. The tides follow the moon slightly ahead of it. In 1 Billion years a day will last for 30 hours. The sun also helps the tides.
About 4 billion years ago, when the Earth and the solar system was just beginning to cool down, a Mars sized object called Theia hit the Earth at a 45 degree angle. This knocked off a huge chunk of the Earth out into space which eventually formed into the moon. This is also tilted the Earth by 23.5 degrees. The giant impact slowed the speed from 8 hour days to 24 hours days.
Did you know that the moon has metals? The moon has compounds like Neodymium, Dysprosium, Cerium, and thus. People think that you should mine the moon! Think again when the moon is saving this earth from destruction from space objects. Anyway it would cost tons of money and resources to even put people on the moon. It’s highly unlikely that people are going to mine the moon for major resources.
The moon is amazing and people take it for granted. The moon helps the Earth out more then most people expect from a moon. Most people only think of it of sun light or a thing to howl at. This is a amazing factor of life and please no one should mine it or cause harm to the moon.
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