So, could we have a future where Earth no longer has a moon?
Even with the current high rate of decline, the Moon is unlikely to completely leave Earth. Catastrophic death is likely to occur long before it occurs In about 5-10 billion years. Humanity may also be like that Tired long before that.
However, in the short term, humanity That itself may have played a role in extending the day a bit longer By reducing the amount of water trapped in glaciers and ice caps by melting caused by climate change.
“The ice basically suppresses the tides,” Waltham said, noting that it was about 600-900 million years ago, when our planet is thought to have entered a very cold period known as Earth Snowball, There was a significant slowdown in the rate of decline of the moon. However, the impacts are difficult to predict, as some of them will be countered by the rebound of the soil mass when the weight of the ice sheet is lifted from it, and other complications.
Theoretically, the next group of astronauts to travel to the Moon using NASA’s Artemis program may be able to say they saw their home planet from a greater distance than their predecessors in the Apollo program 60 years ago (regardless of the point they reached during the trip). The Moon’s elliptical orbit around the Earth may determine this further – the distance between the two nearest and farthest points varies depending on 43,000 km every 29 days).
For the rest of us, our lives are too short to see picoseconds added to the length of each passing day. If you blink, you’ll miss it.
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