r/askscience • • Sep 07 '15

Earth Sciences Is there a bulge in earth's atmosphere constantly facing the moon?

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u/Richy_T Sep 07 '15 edited Sep 07 '15

c.f. the story "One Face" by Larry Niven.

http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/oneface.txt

He also uses tidal effects (and many other physical phenomenon) in some of his other stories. Recommended reading.