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Mystery #2Tier 2-3space / gravity

Why does the Moon make the sea rise and fall?

Twice a day the sea creeps far up the beach and then drains away again, like clockwork. And somehow it's tied to the Moon, a quarter of a million miles away. How can a distant Moon move whole oceans?

A coastline exposed at low tide
Photo: Alan Hughes · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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