does it rain on the moon?

Question

kasho says ya
stupid right

Answer 1

No, rain is caused by the evaporation of water into the atmosphere and there is no water on the moon.

Answer 2

WOW.....What a variety of answers...Even an analogy to a bucket of nails falling. Thank goodness this is not a Propaganda Site. People would already be knocking on our doors.

I buy into the idea of raining particles of dust onto the surface of the Moon. However, I think that the general idea of rainfall has to do with water (h^20). There is no atmosphere on the Moon, and hence no moisture rising up into the sky and falling back to the surface. Hence, no rain as we understand it as commoners.
Those of you with 4, 6, and 8 year degrees, please overlook the adjective I just used.

No sign of water was found by the astronauts who landed on the Moon. I can agree that they did not land at either pole of the Moon where there might be signs of frozen something. I yield to the lady who said she hadn't been there...Love that for an answer.

Regards,
Zah

Answer 3

Hold on a second. It depends on your definition of rain.

You have heard the comment 'It's raining cats and dogs?' Yes that is referring to water, but the concept of rain means that a lot of little somethings are falling from above onto the ground.

If I told you I was working on the roof shingles, and a barrel of nails tipped over and all the nails rolled off the edge and rained on the workmen below, you would accept that as a possible true statement - right?

So rain does not HAVE to mean water. So does stuff - something - fall from the sky onto the Moon?

Yes! In fact even water falls on the moon, but it is frozen, so I guess it is technically snow! hahaha! But dust and meteorites of all sizes have been raining down on the Moon for billions of years. Take a look and you can see where they landed. We call them 'craters.'

;-D The snow? It comes from icy comets who's tails are made of dust and ice. On Earth we see them as meteor SHOWERS - right? Well they fall on the Moon as well. They even come out of a cloud! It is called the Oort Cloud! Funny rain huh? Oh well. Kasho ain't so stupid after all, right dude!

Answer 4

Does it ever rain or snow on the moon or the other planets of our solar system?
To have rain or snow, we need to have water and an atmosphere of some kind. The moon has no atmosphere, so it has no weather at all! Mars has only a very thin atmosphere but it does have weather. Strong winds can blow up big dust storms. Pictures from the Mariner spacecraft show that sometimes thin frost forms on the surface of the planet.

Answer 5

No, there exists no liquid water on the moon. The moon doesn't have weather.

However!! Despite what these other idiots say, there is reason to believe that FROZEN water does exist at the moon's poles, located at the base of deep craters in large chunks. Just because there's said to be no water on the moon doesn't mean there's no rain. Don't have anyone give you that explanation. Without an atompshere to speak of, there is no possibility of weather of any kind. Moon dust is of the most dehydrated ever studied.

Answer 6

There is no atmosphere on Moon. This is because of very little gravity and escape velocity being small particles if they ever existed achieved the escape velocity [due to Brownian motion] and escaped. Since there is no atmosphere and no water vapor, the rain cycle does not exist and hence no rain on Moon.

Answer 7

No water except in underground cavers full of 'ice.' No atmosphere for water to condense into. Not enough heat for ice to melt and condense. Basically, no rain on the moon.

Answer 8

THERE IS NO WATER ON THE MOON!
it would be too cold for rain anyway

Answer 9

I hereby nominate this as the dumbest question of the week in the Astronomy & Science category.

Answer 10

Nope .. there's no atmosphere so there isn't any moisture or clouds either!

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