What are the changes in temperature on the moon?
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The Moon does not produce any heat on its own.  The temperature on the surface is dependent upon the amount of sunlight it is receiving at that time.  There is no known water on the Moon so it is very much affected by hydrostatic electricty; much as we are on a day with very low humidity.  Hence the surface particles tend to stand apart creating microfissures which absorb sunlight resulting in a rather low reflectivity even tho the Moon appears bright.  Under other conditions it could be even brighter.
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No.\n\nThe distance between the Moon and the Sun is always changing.  Sometimes the Moon is between the Earth & the Sun, and sometimes it is on the other side of the Earth from the Sun.\n\nAll because the Moon is orbiting the Earth.
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The temperature changed T2 - T1 = 14°F - 24°F = -10°F.
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In space you are barbecued!\nYour sun side becomes hot and the shadow side is freezing.\nThe same happens to the moon.
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cooling takes a very long time.  A body the size of the moon takes hundreds of millions of years to cool.  The earth, with no internal heating would take billions of years to cool, and as people have said, it is being heated by the sun, internally from radioactive decay and an atmosphere exists which allows for the greenhouse effect.  So the cooling will take much much longer.
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The moon gets its light from the sun!  Way out in outer space, the sun produces light and heat.  The sun's energy is reflected off the surface of the moon and bounced back to the Earth.  What we see is the reflection of the sun's light on the moon.
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http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/uc/solar_system/4/ucss4_2a.html\n\nSome lunar craters are cut by rills, which are cracks in the surface. Rills may be faults, possibly caused by ancient tectonic activity or cooling processes.\n\nWeathering is indeed done on the moon by the intense Solar Radiation that bombards the lunar surface daily.  Temperatures on the Lunar surface vary widely on location. Although beyond the first few centimeters of the regolith the temperature is a nearly constant -35 C (at a depth of 1 meter), the surface is influenced widely by the day-night cycle. The average temperature on the surface is about 40-45 C lower than it is just below the surface.\n\nIn the day, the temperature of the Moon averages 107 C, although it rises as high as 123 C. The night cools the surface to an average of -153 C, or -233 C in the permanently shaded south polar basin. A typical non-polar minimum temperature is -181 C (at the Apollo 15 site).\n\nThe Lunar temperature increases about 280 C from just before dawn to Lunar noon.  Average temperature also changes about 6 C betwen aphelion and perihelion.  Meaning the closest and furthest the moon comes to; and far away it gets from the sun.\n\nLunar Temperature Differences\nhttp://www.asi.org/adb/m/03/05/average-temperatures.html\n\nLunar Soil\nhttp://epsc.wustl.edu/admin/resources/meteorites/regolith_breccia.html\n\nLunar Regolith and Fragmental Breccias\n\nRegolith is the name given to the layer of unconsolidated material at the surface of a planet – the loose stuff that overlies the solid rock.  On Earth, soil is part of the regolith, and lunar regolith is consequently often called “soil.”
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If you go to the old farmers almanac you can find out what the phases and times of the moon were. \nHope this helps
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There would still be some tides, but they would be much, much more calm, as the sun only has about 10% (if not less) of the effect on the waters that the moon does.  Other than that, probably not too much.  No more moonlight.
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For those who live in the Northern Hemisphere:\nThe Moon is waxing or waning based on whether the right side of the Moon is dark or light. \n\nThe Moon's lighted area increases over time from right to left. \n\nA good diagram of this can be found at: http://www.astro.umd.edu/education/astro/moon/waxing.gif\n\nFor those who live in the Southern Hemisphere the effect is the opposite.\n\nMore details can be found at: http://www.astro.umd.edu/education/astro/moon/phases.html
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http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/Academy/UNIVERSE/MOON.HTML\nhttp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/luna.html\nhttp://www.solarviews.com/eng/moon.htm\nhttp://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/
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The moon is totally without an atmosphere.  There is no air to breathe.  The moon has no surface water, and perhaps none at all.  The gravity on the moon is 1/6 that of Earth, and would lead to bone loss, as does any weightless environment.  To live on the moon requires you to take breathable air with you, food to eat and water to drink.  There is no life on the moon, so there is no food source.  Also, without an atmosphere to shield you, any meteors that would normally burn up in atmosphere will strike the surface of the moon, and you if you're standing in their path.  There is, of course, much more about the moon, but perhaps this will help you.
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The mean surface temperature of Mercury is 452 K (178.8 °C /353.9 °F), but it ranges from 90 K (-183.15 °C /-297.7 °F) to 700 K (426.85 °C /800 °F); by comparison, the temperature on Earth varies by only about 150 K (150 °C /270 °F). The sunlight on Mercury's surface is 6.5 times as intense as it is on Earth, with the solar constant having a value of 9.13 kW/m².
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My Mother-in-Law is convinced that the phases of the moon and changes in the wind predict the weather pattern until the moon starts to next wax/wane.\n\nAs a scientist I know that this is twaddle.\n\nThe trouble is, she has an uncanny knack of being right.
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Yes, the moon is moving away at a rate of 3.8 centimetres per year. This was discovered by lunar laser ranging. Don't worry though, it's practically nothing.
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The moon's orbit is nearly circular and traverses 13.2 degrees along this orbit over the course of a day. Its orbital velocity varies from 0.964 to 1.076 (mean 1.023) kilometers/sec (multiply the mean by 86,400 to get the number of km/day traveled. Multiply by 0.62137 to convert to miles). See the provided links for any additional information you may be looking for.
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Distance to the Moon\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n     \n An Astronomy Tid-Bit about the mean and extreme distances to the Moon\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n     \n   Note:  Distance is from center to center of orbiting bodies.\n             Kilometers divided by 1.6093 = miles.       \n\n      Many sources, such as beginning astronomy textbooks, yearbooks, and atlases, give the distance to the moon as 384,400 kilometers (km), and  0.055 as the flattening or eccentricity of the moon's elliptical orbit around the Earth.\n\n      The moon travels around Earth in an elliptical orbit, with the Earth at one of the two focuses (foci) of the ellipse.  As a result the distance to the moon varies by quite large amounts.  Its close (or perigee) distance is 384,400 x (1- 0.055) = 363,258 km.  Its far (or apogee) distance is 384,400 x (1+0.055) = 405,542 km.  BUT these values turn out to be the mean or average values.  See the table below for actual distances.\n\n      The actual (computed) distances over 10 centuries, from  1500 to 2500, have been calculated by the Belgian astronomer, Jean Meeus, to be as small as 356,371 km or as large as 406,720 km./1 These values differ from the MEAN values by 6,887 km and 1,178 km respectively\n\n      An excellent and easy-to-use source for the moon's position and distance is "Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac" produced by the US Naval Observatory, Wash. DC and published by Willman-Bell, Inc., PO box 35025, Richmond, VA  232235.  The program called "MICA15" is on one CDRom for both IBM and MAC systems.  Included with the disk is an information and instruction book.\n\n      I used MICA15 to scan moon distances for the one  year, 2000, shown in TABLE 1.  The same source was used for the ten-year period, 1995 to 2005.  For this ten years,  the smallest distance (356,613.970 km) between Earth and Moon for this period occurred on November 4, 1998.  The largest occurred on March 14, 2002 when the moon was 406,706.975 km away.