Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5 billion years

The Conversation

October 10, 2022

Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know otherwise. In 1969, NASA’s Apollo missions installed reflective panels on the moon. These have shown that the moon is currently moving 3.8 cm away from the Earth every year.

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