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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It does also affect the atmosphere! But the moon is super duper far away, way to far to actually counteract the Earth’s own gravity, which is what would need to happen for the atmosphere to be pulled away. It just has enough to give it a little squeeze and create tides.
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