An article on the website of the American "Atlantic" monthly magazine said that the moon is drifting away from us. Every year, our Moon is unmistakably and unstoppably far from Earth——— only by a very small margin, about 1.5 inches (about 3.8 centimeters), an almost imperceptible change. We can't stop this slow retreat, and we can't turn the clock upside down.
The article points out that the moon was once closer to us. About 4.5 billion years ago, the Moon was born out of fragments of rock that orbited the Earth. The radius of the Moon's orbit at that time was one-tenth of what it is today. Scientists believe that the debris that formed the moon came from Earth's collision with a mysterious object the size of Mars. The moon, which had just emerged from the cosmic oven, was in a hot molten state, glowing red in the night sky. Scientists say the moon was moving away from Earth at about 8 inches a year.
The speed of the Moon's retreat has changed historically, and there have often been major events as the speed has increased rapidly, such as meteor bombardment of the Moon and fluctuations in the Earth's ice age. The effects of the Moon's constant retreat on Earth go beyond the ebb and flow of the tides. The forces that keep the moon away from us are also slowing the rotation of the Earth, thereby prolonging our time every day.
One day, about 600 million years from now, the moon will orbit far enough that humans will lose one of its oldest cosmic landscapes: a total solar eclipse. At that time, the moon will not be able to block the sun's rays and will not be able to project its own shadow onto the earth. But the moon will still be connected to Earth, when the moon will see a very different planet with a much higher temperature than it is now, because the oceans will begin to evaporate.
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