Hi explain the significance of the moon for the life on earth and why the distance between the earth and moon is increasing ?
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The Latest. The brightest and largest object in our night sky, the Moon makes Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet's wobble on its axis, leading to a relatively stable climate. It also causes tides, creating a rhythm that has guided humans for thousands of years.
As a result, some of Earth's angular (or rotational) momentum is gradually being transferred to the rotation of the Earth–Moon pair around their mutual centre of mass, called the barycentre. This slightly faster rotation causes the Earth–Moon distance to increase at approximately 38 millimetres per year.
When UV rays intaract with O2 oxygen molecule and then the oxygen molecule splits into two oxygen atoms and then each oxygen molecule combine with one oxygen atom to form ozone and this way Ozone layer was formed when UV radiation reaches ozone layer, ozone molecules present at the layer absorb its energy and decompose to form oxygen which is more stable than ozone. One ozone molecule decomposes to form one oxygen atom and a normal oxygen molecule. A astroid of the size of Mars is said to struck Earth and a part of Earth got seperated and it formed Moon the Earth got heated after the collision with the asteroid to a point that the earth's center and mantle got heated enough to create a magnetic field arround the earth strong enough to deflect solar radiation . And moons revolves around the earth accelerates earth's day and night circle keeping the earth warm. Distance between the earth and moon is increasing because the earth and moon rotates in the same direction and earth rotates roughly 27 times faster than the moon . The tidal bulge towards the moon is slightly ahead of the imaginary line connecting earth and moon . The tidal bulge has significant mass and gravitationally attracts the moon forward in it's orbit thus draining kinetic energy and angular momentum from earth and lifting the moon to higher orbit. When the earth and the moon will get separated by a large distance around 2 billion years later the rotation of Earth will slow down and the mantle and core of the earth will cool down and the magnetic field around the earth will weaken and the solar system will come to earth and will evaporate all water making life extinct on earth.