The Moon's gravity imparts tremendous energy to the Earth, raising tides throughout the global oceans. The quick time animation, courtesy of the Scientific Visualization Studio at the Goddard Space Flight Center shows what happens to this energy. What happens is called tidal energy dissipation. The wind contributes to this energy conversion supplying about half(1terawatt or 1 trillion watts) to the process, the tides contribute another 1 terawatt to the process of dissipation. More |
IN THE DEPTH OF SPHERES
unsensed the wind
& moon talk oceans
but with economy
& not about it
not about it
either, oceans
rock
& roll
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