Do we only ever see one side of the moon.?

Answer 1

sadly, its true which is most unfortunate,because there is a really cool amusement park on the other side that puts Disneyland to shame!

Answer 2

In general, you can only see one side of the moon, but there are times when you can "see around the corner" to the other side.

The rate at which the moon rotates on its axis is the length of the lunar day, the time from one sunrise to the next on the moon and this takes about 28 earth days. The rate at which the moon orbits the earth is almost the length of what we see as the lunar month (again, about 28 earth days). Since the moon orbits the earth in the same amount of time that it takes to rotate once on its axis, the moon always keeps the same face to the earth. We call this a "tidal lock orbit" when a satellite like the moon always keeps the same face to its parent planet.

But since the moons orbit isn't a perfect circle, sometimes we can see a bit around one edge or the other. When the moon tilts a bit so that we can see part of the "back side", we call this "lunar libration". As it happens, instead of being able to see only half, or 50% of the moon, "lunar libration" allows us to see up to 59% of the moon if we watch carefully throughout the year.

For more information, do a web search on "lunar libration". There are good articles on it in many places.

Answer 3

The Moon's day and year are the same length if you accept that:
a lunar day is the time it takes the Moon to rotate on its axis once with respect to the Sun; a lunar year is the time it takes the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
It takes just over 29½ days for the Moon to rotate on its axis and it also takes the Moon just over 29½ day to orbit the Earth. This is also why the Moon always keeps its face towards the Earth and why you can never see the far side of the Moon from the Earth.

Answer 4

From Earth, yes. The moon rotates so that only one side ever faces the Earth.

Don't call it the dark side. It gets plenty of light when that side is toward the sun! Call it the "far side" or the "backside." LOL.

The Apollo 8 astronauts got to see the far side. They orbited the moon -- and took pictures, which is why you can now buy a globe of the moon that isn't a big question mark on one hemisphere.

Answer 5

Yes. We never see the dark side of the moon.

Answer 6

Yes. The moon rotates on its own axis at the same rate that it orbits the Earth, so we only ever see one side.

Answer 7

That's right- that is why we have the expression, dark side of the moon-because of the rotation relative to the Earth, we never see that side.

Answer 8

yup we do.

in simple terms the moon is in a captured orbit, meaning i rotates on its axis in the same time it orbits the earth. this means that the "far side" of the moon is never seen from Earth.

however, due to lunar librations from the moon, we have seen 59% of the moons surface from earth.

hope this helps.

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Answer 10

no depending where on earth you are you see a different side to the moon