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Tidal locking means that the denser side of the lighter body always faces the heavier body, and the less-dense side of the lighter body already faces away from
by __MatrixMan__ 7y ago
Tidal locking means that the denser side of the lighter body always faces the heavier body, and the less-dense side of the lighter body already faces away from the heavier one.
The moon is tidally locked to the Earth, which is why it has a dark side.
- pault 7y agoSo the Apollo "earthrise" photos are just "earth"?
- archgoon 7y agoNo; they weren't taken from the moon; they were taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft, which was orbiting, so the Earth did in fact 'rise'.
- quakeguy 7y agoYes, Earth does not move significantly on the moon sky, if i remember right. It does rotate though. Edit: Archgoon is right, the photos were taken from the orbiting module, so a rise happened.
- wiredfool 7y agoThere is no dark side in the moon. There is a far side.
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- __MatrixMan__ 7y agoYou're right, but I'm pretty sure that "The dark side of the Moon" is a proper name at this point. It's dark like the darknet is dark... Occluded.