Educare Bharatha

Why is the Moon moving away from Earth?   Earth's satellite Moon is slowly moving away from Earth, says a research. A day will now be 25 hours instead of 24. This will have a real impact on the days on our planet. Ultimately this results in Earth days lasting 25 hours over 200 million years. A study says that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth was only 18 hours long.The research conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison team found that the Moon is slowly moving away from the Earth.Earth is like a spinning figure skater as the moon moves away. It slows down as it spreads its arms, said Stephen Meyers, a professor of earth sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.A research study stated that the Moon is receding from Earth at a rate of approximately 3.8 cm per year. One of our ambitions is to use astrochronology to tell time in the very distant past to develop very ancient geological time scales, which we want to study in a way comparable to the way we study rocks bi...