How come the moon doesn’t pull away earth’s atmosphere

Question

If the moon is able to cause rising tides with its gravity, how come it cannot do the same with the atmosphere? Wouldn’t this cause the atmosphere to leak significantly?

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Answer 1

It does pull the atmosphere, pretty much in the same way as the tides.

As for why it doesn’t “leak”, well the earth is bigger and closer, so it pulls a lot harder.