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Quote by: Zeebadee  If the moon didn't spin on it's axis, we'd see all sides of it. It has to spin to keep the same face towards us. |
I dont think I am making myself clear. Picture yourself on the moon, and imagine the earth is the sun. Or better yet imagine yourself hovering above the north pole of the moon looking down at the moon. And you follow it as it travels around the earth in one cycle. Just as the earth would revolve around the sun in one year. The moon will not spin on an axis. It will only revolve around the earth. The moon does do a complete 360
relative to the sun but not
relative to its revolution around the earth like the earth does.
JUST as I said to begin with. Which of course was not wrong.