A day on the planet remained constant for billions of years during the Middle age epoch, a study finds.
Also known as the ‘boring billion’, a period of relatively limited biological evolution coincided with Earth’s shorter days.
In simple terms, the forces caused by the atmosphere's temperature and energy from the Sun helped counteract the forces caused by the Moon's pull on Earth's oceans, stabilizing the Earth’s rotation. The study reports, “In contrast with their oceanic counterpart gravitationally excited by the pull of the Moon, atmospheric tides are thermally excited by the absorption of sunlight by water vapor and ozone, the largest of which is semidiurnal .”
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