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 the same thing to air that it does to oceans. You just don’t notice it because the change is so minuscule. Also air is subject to the variability of weather patterns much more so than water.