2007-09-04 19:06:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Yes, but not what you think.
You need an atmosphere before you can have any rain. The moon has an atmosphere that is so thin it can be ignored; so no it won't rain on the moon. However, because it doesn't have an atmosphere to burn up or deflect space debris it gets rained on a lot.
Every 4 hours a rock large enough to hit the planet strikes the planet earth. Those are just the rocks that survive entry through the atmosphere; now imagine how many rocks hit the moon. They don't have an atmosphere to stop them so it is a lot; just look at the face of the moon.
Mars has a similar problem since it has a very thin atmosphere. It has a whole lot more atmosphere than the moon has, but it is hardly enough to breathe and it doesn't have enough oxygen to support any animals that need to breathe it.
Comets hit the moon and comets are collections of rocks ice and other compounds. However, the heat of the sun will evaporate any water. That water will then escape into space since there isn’t an atmosphere to hold it. NASA tried to find water on the moon only a few months ago by crashing a satellite into the Shakelton Crater; a crater that has an area, which is always in shadow. NASA hoped to find the remains of a comet there.
There is probably water underground on the moon; ice at least. Just as there is probably water on Mars, but more likely then not it is either buried underground or underground as frozen ice. That's why NASA is looking at sending a drilling robot to the moon to continue its search for water.
Mars has a huge ice cap at its north pole, but most of that is frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice) not water.
2007-09-04 19:13:43 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no air on the moon, the only rain they would get is meteors. The temperature can be a boiling 250 in the daytime, and a bone chilling -250 at night and there nights are almost two weeks long.
2007-09-05 01:48:51 · answer #2 · answered by trey98607 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moon rain, What a great name thank you!
That will be a no.
2007-09-04 19:36:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the gravity there not strong enough to absorb the rain water into the moon. if there is rain, dun the water be floating in the air.. which mean flooded moon. hmm.. but we dun know anything more that what God noes. He who knows what He created.
2007-09-04 21:05:18 · answer #4 · answered by god noes 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i've got seen triple rainbows (there are theoretically extra yet in keeping with probability too faint to ever be seen), ring-around-the-moon, sundogs (accounting for many UFOs seen from plane), and the Spectre of the Brocken - it somewhat is your individual extensive shadow solid onto the mist. Corliss' e book "sourcebook of wierd phenomena" has an outstanding area on all styles of wierd opticaL outcomes interior the ambience. .
2016-12-16 11:49:11 · answer #5 · answered by kirk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no water and clouds and trees on moon so how can it rain there
2007-09-04 19:13:57 · answer #6 · answered by pokemon maniac 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only kind of rain they have on the moon is a ASTEROID SHOWER lol
2007-09-04 19:36:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
because there is no water, evaporation can not be performed which means the rain cannot fall.
2007-09-04 19:17:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does.... yesterday we had 2 inches in a few hours...
2007-09-05 03:07:39 · answer #9 · answered by Chianti Man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,....its a physical impossibility, for too many reasons to name here.
2007-09-04 21:59:40 · answer #10 · answered by Opus 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋