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Earth—Moon system The instantaneous , or distance to the Moon, is the distance from the center of to the center of the Moon.

What happened after that is unknown.

Direct transmission of data to Earth concluded in late 1977 because of budgetary considerations, but as the stations' corner-cube retroreflector arrays are passive instruments, they are still being used.

Russia, China, India, and the U.

The result is a further tidal effect of the Moon on the Earth that causes a bulge of the solid portion of the Earth nearest the Moon.

The Moon's orbit is subtly by the Sun and Earth in many small, complex and interacting ways.