We saw something strange on the MOON on Sunday

Ummmmm ,,,,

The moon does NOT rotate my friend,,

The side facing us,,,

ALWAYS faces us.

it does rotate. once every 28 days.

Don't forget to breathe, Mr Hitndahead!

Then please explain why we see only one side?

Interplanitairy lock they call it. It conviniantly rotates with us so the same side always faces us.

it does not rotate. that is silly, conveniently rotates with us, NO

PINK FLOYD, DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

This should end the debate

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Its pretty simple to think about if you see the face of the moon during one season and then the opposite season you see the face still then, it has to have rotated.... Its not hard to think about... It why we only see one face because it always rotating so we see it's face all the time... Logic really... If it didn't spin, when you get to other side the dark side would show....

around the earth, not around its own axis
wich means it revolves

Last Edited by Brussel Sprouts are bitter on 11/11/2011 09:38 AM

seasons and our moon have nothing to do with its lack of rotation. Our tilt changes thru the seasons affect where we see if coming up etc though

PINK FLOYD, DARK SIDE OF THE MOON


It is all Dark.....

It is called Gravitational Lock. The moon takes 28 days to make one orbit around the earth and rotates on its axis one time during the orbit. So the same side is facing earth at all times. Jeez, did you not pay any attention during your High School science classes!!!

There was no full rotation. It just moved a little where the pyramid was barely seen. The items were on the edge of vision so a slight movement was all that was needed to obscure those items.

Hey, the same side does face us but it or we moved enough to hide what was seen. Even when I was using the scope it was hard to keep it in position because of our and its movement.

Get a telescope and look at something on the corner and see if you can see it the next day.

Yes it does. The Moon (and most of the other moons in the Solar System) are tidally locked to their primary. That means the period of rotation (turning about an axis) is the same as the period of revolution (orbiting about the primary).

I wish I could draw on here what we seen.

why don't you ?
And upload the pic ? either by scanning it or taking a pic of your drawing from your mobile ?

Do you have to be a paying member to do that?

Troll thread.

anyone can upload a pic I think ,I actually don't remember if I have to be blatantly honest, if it doesn't work you can always throw it on a website and give us the link :p

show me the flag on the moon, that would be strange.

You are a moran. Take some pictures on every full moon for a year, run them through an extrapolation program and you'll see for 100% sure that the moon DOES rotate.

Prove me wrong! Show me the photos of an entire years' worth of full moons that show the exact same side... pfft

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, and one face away.

Here is why you saw a difference. First, go outside and look up at the moon, notice where it is at exactly 10:00 pm. Now do this every night for a week. What you will see is that each night at the same time the moon is in a different place in the sky. If you were to do this for a full 28 days you would see it "step" across the sky from one horizon to the other. You would also see it go through a full cycle of moon phase from full to new and back to full. If you pay attention you would also notice that the week before a full moon and the week after, the moon is illuminated on the east side or the west side. As the moon circles the earth during it's 27.3 +/- day cycle each night you look at it you are seeing it illuminated from the sun at a slightly different angle. So, say you look at the moon and see a mountain range sticking up on the edge of the moon. You look for it a day later but don't see it. That is because as it rotates around us with the same face towards us the sunlight is striking it at a different angle and that mountain range is now in shadow and you can no longer see it.

Try this experiment to help you understand how this works.

Take a large ball, like a basketball, use some glue or a piece of duct tape to attach something like a wine cork or large eraser. Now go outside when it is dark and turn on a cars headlights. Stand about 50 feet directly in front of the headlights facing away from them. Have someone stand about 10 feet in front of you facing you and the headlights. Have them hold the ball in front of them with the cork/eraser at a 90 degree angle to the right or left so it looks like it is sticking out of the side much like the mountains sticking out of the side of the moon. Now here's the important part. Have that person slowly walk around you but keeping the same side of the ball facing you with the cork/eraser in the same spot. As they go around you you will see the cork/eraser go in and out of light and shadow. The headlights are the sun, you are the earth, the ball is the moon, the cork,eraser is the mountains on the moon. The changing angle of the light gives the illusion that the mountains have moved but they are still in the same spot. It's just weather or not you can see them. So yes we always see the same side of the moon.