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First, the moon revolves around the earth, it rotates on its axis.

Viewed from the north pole, everything* in the solar system rotates counterclockwise. If you point the thumb of your right hand toward the north pole, the curl of your fingers show the rotation. In other words it's positive in a right-handed coordinate system. Everything also goes around the sun in a positive direction, too.

*The only exception is Venus, which rotates backwards at a very slow rate, but still moves in the positive direction.

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