Thank you very much! Also I was wondering if anyone could tell from the video if the moon is the side we are supposed to be looking at. We all definitely know that the moon doesn't rotate, hence the jokes about the dark side of the moon that we never see. I know there was one shot where he zoomed in on the moon and you could see the details of the moon pretty well. Besides that...why when he zooms in sometimes is there a greenish halo around the moon? I can research this, but right now my tooth is killing me and I have to go take a pain pill. (Tuesday morning dentist appointment can not come fast enough!)
Quoting: Mother MaryWho knows that? Idiots?
The Moon rotates.
First, the Moon rotates about its own axis. There is no dark side. There is a side (rather, about 41% of the surface) that is never seen from Earth. And the reason this is so is because the Moon rotates about its own axis simultaneously with its revolution around the Earth; like a ballet dancer doing a spin, it turns in order to present a single face to the audience.
(If you don't know classical ballet, that example will fly right by you, sorry.)
Secondly, the EARTH rotates. Because we are on the surface of a rotating sphere, everything beyond our atmosphere appears to move. The universe appears to rise in the East and set in the West.
Think of
riding in a Ferris Wheel without pivoting cars. As you pass over the top and begin to descend, the world appears upside-down to you. As you pass through the lowest part of the wheel, you orient back around to normal.
This is what the entire observed universe does. The Moon enters our view in the East with one side "on top," and exits our view in the West with the other side "on top."
A moment's thought would show this.
OR YOU COULD GO OUTSIDE AND OBSERVE REALITY FOR AN HOUR OR TWO.
