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Every year, the moon travels away from the Earth by roughly 3.8 cm.
While it is hard for the typical individual to perceive, the moon is moving away from us. According to experts, the lunar body is migrating away from the Earth at a rate of 3.8 centimeters each year owing to gravity. "Tides raised in the seas produce drag and so reduce the Earth's spin rate," the site said, saying that the "resultant loss of angular momentum is compensated for by the Moon speeding up, and thus moving further away."