Does Moon Rotate or Spin? - Brain Bites

Why do we only see one side of the Moon?

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Science & Technology

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• NASA
• Moon
• Orbit
• Astronomy
• Cosmology
• Aviation
• Space

[SazzleT400]

wtf, why is it so fast?

[blucrysannelise7]

i CAN EVEN READ WHAT THEY ARE SAYING!!! IT'S GOING TO FAST!!

[Dantesonofsparda1987]

8 -|  ( my face )

[AnwarAwlakiSilenced]

@parrhesiastes2012 Correct... But many people are fooled into thinking it does rotate on it's own axis every 27.3 days... it rotates with respect to the sun every 27.3 days but NOT on it's OWN axis... also it rotates another once every 24 hours with respect to the sun because of the earth rotating on it's axis once every 24 hours with respect to the sun... and one more time every year with respect to the sun for every time the earth goes around the sun every year.

[GILLITRONP]

I like that this video is only four seconds long. iI learned that the moon does rotate and that the pause button olny does so much.

[menow20000]

@parrhesiastes2012 Of course the moon rotates, and yes, it rotates ON ITS OWN AXIS. Who told you otherwise? If the Moon doesn't rotate ON ITS OWN AXIS, then neither does Earth.

[michaelberryakabez]

lame go get a job bum

[AgAzA8]

THIS IS AWESOME INFORMATION!!!

[5163338]

@parrhesiastes2012

Well, the Moon does rotate. In fact, the Moon takes 27.3 days to turn once on its axis. But the Moon also takes 27.3 days to complete one orbit around the Earth. Because the Moon’s rotation time is exactly the same amount of time it takes to complete an orbit, it always presents the same face to the Earth

[dopehousex3]

Ohhh okay

[parrhesiastes2012]

the moon moves because it is in a fixed gravitational pull with the equator of the earth so it shares the earths rotation cycle of 23.7 hr, Like they both share the same axis point, BUT FACT IS THE MOON DOSE NOT spin or rotate on its own axis and we always see the same side. Which completely goes against any argument of how the moon got to be in its current position. It would have had to have been placed in orbit already in the gravitational pull of the earth like a satellite