If Earth's Oceans Were on the Moon

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If we transfer all earth's ocean to the moon. Earth's water on the Moon
Moon ocean depth comparison
Lunar Mariana Trench
Hypothetical lunar ocean
Visualizing water in space

[coreplay]

Utterly breathtaking ❌
Utterly taking breath ✅

[sumper_man]

It’s reflection from the sun would be wild😭

[thatonenerd]

Thanks for answering the important questions in life

[JustDEVV]

If the moon had a surface of water covering it, I think trying to land on the moon would be more terrifying

[DocSingh]

Those aren't mountains... They are waves.
- interstellar

[wasdwasdw]

If we transferred all of earths water to the moon we wouldn’t be around to see the results

[thatmythicalpilot]

Positives: cool fuckin moon
Negatives: no water :/

[CharlesLovell-hp]

Man that moon looks so cool its almost dehydrating

[tristanbrooks]

The water wouldn't stay liquid for very long. Most would boil due to very low atmospheric pressure.

[lusir.]

one Solar Eclipse and it's over 💀

[thomaswanderer]

Ah yes.... *THE SIGHT WOULD BE BREATH TAKING!!*

[mectorocks]

But guys, water will boil away because of the lack of atmospheric pressure in the moon.

Edit : Most water vapour would evaporate and escape from moon's gravitational field (as the escape velocity is 2.38 km/s or 1.48 miles per second). A fraction of the water might remain as ice in permanently shadowed craters.

Edit 2: The gravitational force of the new moon will be around 1.65 m/s² (1.9% increase from 1.62 m/s²) and the new escape velocity will be around 2.40 km/s (0.9% increase from 2.38 km/s)

[lukasvideosify]

The average water depth of our oceans is around 4km or rouighly 2.5 miles.
The moon has a surface area of roughly 38 million square kilometres.
(The whole of Afrika is at around 31 million square kilometres.)
The whole Earth's surface is at around 510 square kilometres of which only 149 is land, which means that 361 square kilometres are water.
361 divided by 38 is exactly 9.5.
If we take that as a multiplier we would an ocean depth of 38 kilometres.
But now we must also consider that when the moon is filled with water, the more water comes the higher is the surface area.
So we cannot simply multiply like that.
But in the end the resulting water mass would still have a depth of something like 10-20 kilometres. Easily.
Now, the moon has a diameter of roughly 3.500 kilometres.
That means that if there is at least 10km of water on each side which would equal to 20km total, more than 80% of the new moon's diameter would be water.
THat is insane to consider!

[bobbymele]

Love how the little npc dude fainted from the “utterly breathtaking” sight 😂

[vincent_hall]

What a fascinating idea.
We could actually do that if we got lots of water from asteroids.

[Mellow.]

I love the time and effort put in the deeper areas being animated accurately

[mitchellminer]

There would also be a tidal bulge in the water on the far side of the moon, not just on the side nearest the earth. That's how tides work.
The moon's surface is already tidally bulged. The water would not make much more of a bulge.

[loid.forger]

Utterly Breathtaking❎
The Construction man💀

[abhimanyuray]

Finally someone not saying - " ooo that's not good" 😂

[yfmd]

Utterly breathtaking ❌
Literally breathtaking ✅