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The moon is rotating?
by pyinstallwoes 3y ago
The moon is rotating?
- Galaxeblaffer 3y agotechnically yes, 1 rotation takes the roughly the same time as 1 revolution around the earth which as you were probably hinting at is tidally locked
- adolph 3y agoRelated is the infamous 1982 SAT question: The radius of circle B is three times the radius of circle A. Starting from the position shown in the figure, circle A rolls around circle B. When circle A returns to its starting point, how many rotations will it have completed? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sat-problem-that-everybody-got-wrong/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sat-problem-t...
- Terr_ 3y agoIt still has day/night cycles [0] so that any moon-based solar panels should ideally be on swivels so that you can point them at the "moving" sun. (Or in this case, wait until the sun in shining on the fixed panel.) It just happens to turn at a rate that keeps one side always facing us on Earth [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_day [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking