• Question: how does the moon move water?

    Asked by cake46can to Philip, Maxime, Jake, Ann, Annette, Amy Heather on 11 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Amy Heather Fitzpatrick

      Amy Heather Fitzpatrick answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      At the moment scientists have not found water on the moon, apart from a few droplets from inside the moon, not on the surface. They have done lots of mathematical simulations and think that there use to be water on the moon 3.7 billion years ago!

    • Photo: Jake Cunningham

      Jake Cunningham answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      Hi there cake46can, the moon’s gravity pulls at the earth which causes the tides. High tide happens on the side of the Earth nearest the moon due to gravity, and it also happens on the side farthest from the moon due to the inertia of water (inertia means a resistance to change in motion). Low tides occur between these two humps.

    • Photo: Ann Reen

      Ann Reen answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      The moon has a force called gravity that pulls the water on the side of the earth closest to the moon resulting in high tide.

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