if the earth never had a moon, would there be a difference to the climate? to the atmostphere? ecc...?

Question

therefore, what are the positive and negatives influences the moon has to do with the earth?

Answer 1

The moon controls the tides, so our coastline would be different. There is some basis that the full moon affects moods, although I don't know of any scientific studies.The moon was part of our Earth until some object hit us and knocked out a chunk that is now our moon. So Earth would be a lot bigger than it is. That would give us more gravity and probably a denser atmosphere. The moon has nothing to do with the tilt of our axis. The tilt wobbles from about 18 or 19 degrees to about 25 (I'm not sure of the numbers) every15 million yrs.

Answer 2

I saw a book in the library the other day called something like "If the Earth had no Moon". This was thickish book, so obviously there are much more implications than mentioned here.

One thing is that the tidal effect does not just affect the ocean, but puts tremendous strain on the Earth's crust, and may be responsible for crustal fractures and volcanic activity. If true, then the moon is responsible for the replenishment of atmospheric gases and water from the planet's interior. So, without it, the world perhaps would have a solid crust, thus sealing all those things off, and by now the atmosphere would have largely escaped into space.

Just another thing that supports the rarity of life on any planet in the Universe.

Answer 3

The Moon has been receding ever through fact it somewhat is been in orbit around Earth. yet we've had many organic situations of world warming and ice an prolonged time in the course of that element. in the adventure that your concept became into amazing, then we does not have had better than one ice age (the warming vogue could have been non-stop from the initiating). The means we get from the solar (even making an allowance for what clouds, snow, and so on., bounce back into area) is very just about a hundred and ten,000 TW. A Terawatt (TW) is comparable to a million million watts. a million TW = a million 000 000 000 000 W. The means generated interior of Earth (e.g., radioactivity, middle) is approximately 12 TW. the full means we get from the Moon (contains contemplated photograph voltaic and the tidal means -- which DOES reason the Moon's recession) is somewhat below 3 TW. The contribution of the Moon is purely too low to have any real impact. What makes it worst (on your clarification) is that the Moon's element could have been greater in the previous (while the Moon became into nearer). yet even then, the cost on no account went above 10 TW. 3 TW over a hundred and ten,000 TW is barely 0.0027% ( = a million/367 % ) way too low to describe worldwide warming.

Answer 4

There are several things that would be different if we didn't have the Moon. Perhaps the most important is that our Moon keeps our tilt stable at about 23.5 degrees. If we didn't have the Moon, our tilt would vary greatly. Since Earth has seasons because of the tilt of the axis, this could have a dramatic, even devastating effect on our weather and hence on life.

Answer 5

It is widely held that our atmosphere would be much thicker, and composed more like that of Venus if the Moon had not stripped away so much. Also, without tides, our coastlines would likely be far different, and it's also likely that the Moon's gravitational field is what keeps Earth's core molten, which puts out more greenhouse gasses, so it would be far different on Earth without the Moon.

Answer 6

Worth noting that various biological cycles have developed which relate to the phases of the moon and of course its presence has shaped mankind's development in a huge number of ways - from the spiritual & religious to the scientifc and practical. Interesting to think what the USA and USSR would have done in the 1960's by way of a space race without a moon landing to aspire to - a shot at Mars instead?

Answer 7

Tides occur due to the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. Had there been no moon, there would be some difference in the tides that we see now and the ones that would happen if there were no moon. And there would definitely be no werewolves ;)

Answer 8

I'm not a scientist but the moon is said to control moods and tides