Can anyone demonstrate how moon shows only its one face at all the time???

Question

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Answer 1

Try this link:

http://www.allaboutspace.com/subjects/astronomy/moon/Moononeside.shtml

Answer 2

Simplest way to explain it is to hold an orange in an outstretched hand and spin around once.

From your perspective, the you have the same view of the orange the whole time. From someone else watching you, both you and the orange have made one complete revolution. This means that the moon is rotating, it just doesn't seem to rotate relative to our position.

In reality, we in the center (earth) are rotating much faster than the moon (otherwise people on the opposite side of the planet would never see the moon), but our view of the moon will always be the same.

Answer 3

YOU can!.
-Look at the moon every night for the next (however many) nights, so that you are confident you really do see the smae side of it all the time

-Hold a grapefruit up in your left hand. Draw a face on a grape. Hold the grape in your right hand and move it in an "orbit" around the grapefruit.

-Use your common sense to figure out all the possible ways a flea on the grapefruit could always see the face on the grape if he looked up! If you have any common sense, you'll figure there's only one way, the grape rotates one full time each time it orbits the mighty grapefruit.

Fruit. It holds all the secrets of science.

Answer 4

The moon shows its "face" all the time because the rotation of the moon around the Earth takes the same amount of time as the moon takes to rotate on it's axis therefore the same spot on the moon is always facing the Earth.

Answer 5

This could be demonstrated with the the help of a couple of your friends.Have one of your friends (representing the earth) turn around in the same spot. You (representing the moon) "orbit" your friend in the same direction in which she is turning while making sure to always face your friend. In the course of moving around your friend (who is "rotating on her axis" faster than you are "orbiting" her) you will view your friend from all sides while she will only view your front side. A second friend, standing at a distance, will over time view both of you from your fronts, backs, and both sides.

Answer 6

I'll keep it shorter:
Pretend you could see a pole that is attached to the earth, and attached the moon. The earth is spinning around the Sun, but the pole stays in place. Hence, we will only see one side of the moon.

Answer 7

the moon spins and orbits the earth at the same (angular) velocity and in the same direction. it's like you ask somebody to hold a ball in his hand outstretched, and ask him to turn around. you can see that the ball is orbiting at a certain velocity in a certain direction relative to himself, and so does the ball spinning relative to you.