Because the moon rotates once for each revolution around Earth what happens?

Answer 1

When the Earth rotates around the Sun, it is called a revolution. One revolution is equal to a year. It takes 27.32 days for the Moon to go around Earth, and the Moon also spins about its axis one full revolution.

Answer 2

See links below with actual pictures of the moon taken from space. == From far to the north, above the solar system, the moon would appear to make a squiggly orbit around the sun (along with the earth). The squiggles would resemble the edge of a scallop shell. It would also change its sidereal (as observed from the distant stars) velocity in its orbit, because it would be moving in advance of earth's revolution around the sun when the moon is outside of earth's orbit (earth is somewhere between the moon and the sun), and it would be moving a little slower than the earth's orbit when the moon is somewhere between the earth and the sun.

Answer 3

If the observer is located on the side of the moon that never faces the earth, then he never sees the earth.

He sees the sun rise above one horizon, cross his sky slowly over a period of about 14.8 days, then set beneath

the opposite horizon, and stay down for the next 14.8 days.

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If the observer is located on the side of the moon that ALWAYS faces the earth, then he sees the Sun go through the same motions as described above. In addition, he sees the Earth go through a cycle of phases, which in many ways are the same as the cycle of moon phases that we see from Earth, except that the Earth never leaves the sky.

If he is in radio contact with anyone on earth, and if they compare the phases that each of them is seeing, he will soon notice that the earth-phase he sees is always exactly complementary to the moon-phase that his earthbound buddy sees. The illuminated portion of the earth is always the dark portion of the moon, and if you fit the earth-phase and moon-phase together on a piece of paper, they always add up to exactly one completely illuminated disk.

Answer 4

You can find out by watching it for 4 weeks every night, not all the time but just a quick look every night at the same time to check on its movement compared to the previous night (obviously you can't look when it's cloudy).

It starts a few days after New Moon with a thin cresecent that sets after the Sun, then as the days go by it sets later and later and grows into a half moon and then a gibbous moon. At Full Moon it rises at sunset. After a while it only rises in the early morning and then it rises only a little before sunrise, then it disappears and the cycle starts over again.

Answer 5

Since the Moon always turns the same face to the Earth, the biggest change is the pattern of light and shadow on the surface. This is why the Moon goes through "phases" over the course of a month or so.

Answer 6

The Moon orbits the Earth once in 27 days. However, in that time the Earth itself has moved, so that it takes 29.5 days for the Moon to get back to the same relative positions of the Earth, Moon and Sun.

Answer 7

In the past, the Moons rotation must have been slowed down by tidal forces, until it is in the present situation. Similarly, Earth's rotation is also being slowed down gradually, by tidal forces, until one day, in the far future, it will always show the same face towards the Moon.

Answer 8

The same side or face of the moon always faces Earth, so we never see the "far" side from Earth.

Answer 9

If the moon did not rotate, the lunar craters would move across the face of the moon in the same way the Red Spot moves across and around Jupiter.

Answer 10

It goes around again, and again, and again.....

Each orbit of the Earth takes about 29.5 days, and the Moon goes through all of the phases from full to new and back to full again.