Why doesn the moon affect temperature on earth?
Okay, So all the other answers you’ve received are complete piles-o-crap. Yes, the moon does have a warmish core, and by warmish I mean 1600 – 3000 Degrees Fahrenheit. While this isn’t quite enough to be able to feel the moon’s warmth from earth directly, there is some passing on of thermal energy – however small this energy transfer may be. Another factor to take into consideration when relating how the energy stored in/on the moon affects the earth’s temperature, atmospheric or otherwise, would be the Earth and Moon’s gravitational pulls acting on one another. The energy transfer present between the Moon and the Earth might also be one of convective gravitational pull. Seeing as how the Earth has a liquid Mantle – the mantle being a highly viscous layer directly under the Earth’s crust, the gravitational pull of the moon has some effect on its flow; ie: an energy transfer. I don’t understand how your results stated that the temperature dropped whenever the moon was overhead. If anyth
