What If the Moon Orbited at the Same Height as the ISS?
1. The moon will look a lot bigger because it’s so close to earth “it would be 420 km above the earth’s surface” which means it’ll look half of the sky~
2. Because the moon will be so close to earth it’ll block the sun, the Plato can be seen to the upper right, if a person saw the Plato they would be dead considering the fact that earth is more massive than the moon it’ll pull you about 300,000 harder than the moon~
3. The force of gravity gets weaker with the distance of the moon~
4. They moon would probably be destroyed by tidal forces and that could create huge disasters on earth~
5. It will cause earthquakes, volcanoes, heat up due to air resistance, living things die “Humans, Animals, Plants”~
6. You would weight 10% less than you are now if the moon was closer~
7. Because the moon is so close to earth you would see it every 90-100 min everyday~
8. If the moon was a lot closer to earth it would move faster to avoid crashing into earth~
9. It would pull tides which will make them way bigger and higher and the tides on the other side will be lower~
10. Due to volcanoes, oceans might boil because of the high heat released from volcanoes which will leave you with water lava~
In this video you will get to see how the moon looks like when its really close to the sun. It also shows you how the moon blocks the sun and how it looks like when it happens. Video by yeti dynamics this video was taken in mexico and animated by that youtuber. “watch in full screen for a better effect”
this pic shows how the moon looks like when its really close to earth..
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/05/19/close_encounter_what_if_the_moon_orbited_much_closer_to_earth.html
What if the moon orbited Earth at the same distance as the International Space Station?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/05/19/close_encounter_what_if_the_moon_orbited_much_closer_to_earth.html