TRUE OR FALSE : The same side of the moon always faces Earth. Explain?

Answer 1

No one who has answered so far got it right. The answer is TRUE, and the reason is because the moon rotates on its axis in exactly the same amount of time it takes it to make one revolution around the earth. No one seems to get this.

Answer 2

Yes it is true. The same side of the moon does indeed face the earth at all times. Since the moon reflects light from the earth, The other side of the moon(not facing the earth) remains dark. That's where the term "the dark side of the moon" originated.

This phenomenon is simple to explain.
The moon's rotation and revolution are matched in such a way that as a moon revolves, it also rotates in the same direction. The moon makes one complete rotation when it completes 1 revolution. Due to the same rotation and revolution speed, the same side of the moon faces the earth at all times.

Get two balls. Put 1 in the middle of a table. make a small mark on one side of the other ball(just to identify the side facing the "earth")
now, move the marked ball around the other ball in such a way that it makes one complete rotation around itself when it completes one revolution around the other ball. You will notice that the mark always faces the other ball...

Answer 3

Because of the effect on the Moon of "tidal forces" due to the Earth, the same side of the moon always faces the Earth. The rotation period and the orbital period of the Moon are the same. Therefore, Earth-bound observers can never see the 'far-side' of the Moon. Tidal forces cause many of the moons of our solar system to have this type of orbit.

Answer 4

True. The gravitational pull of the earth on the moon has brought its rotation on its axis to zero over many billions of years. The next thing that will happen is that the moon will gradually slow down in its orbit around the earth and will be pulled into the earth over many billions of years. And over countless billions of years, all the planets will be pulled into the sun, one at a time, closest one first. By the way, the same thing that happened to the moon also happened to mercury, which faces the sun with no rotation on its axis as it orbits it every 88 days-one of its years....KECK

Answer 5

it's true. the moon DOES rotate, contrary to popular belief in the previous answers. put something in the middle of a room and walk a circle around it, but keep facing it. if you go around one complete circle, you have done one revolution (obviously), and you should notice that you have done one rotation (you'll have seen all around the room, just like if you had spun around in place). you'll end up at the same place you started, facing the same direction you started. same story with the moon. it rotates and revolves at the same speed (both take about 28 days), and in just the right direction, so the same side is always facing earth.

Answer 6

TRUE

In astronomy, synchronous rotation is a planetological term describing a body orbiting another, where the orbiting body takes as long to rotate on its axis as it does to make one orbit; and therefore always keeps the same hemisphere pointed at the body it is orbiting.

The Moon is in synchronous rotation about the Earth. In fact, most major moons in the solar system have synchronous rotation due to tidal locking.

Answer 7

The Moon is in synchronous rotation, meaning that it keeps nearly the same face turned toward Earth at all times. About 59% of the lunar surface is visible from Earth.

Answer 8

Because the moon rotates once on it,s axis for every one time it orbits the earth. Its like that because of the way the earth,s gravity affects the moon.

Answer 9

true. The moon rotates and orbit at the same speed. And so whenever it rotates, the same side of the moon always faces the Earth.

Answer 10

this is tidal locking that reasons the synchronous rotation which reasons the Moon to recent "purely one element" to the Earth each and all the time. The Moon rotates (spins) yet very slowly, making one activate its axis in the comparable time it takes to revolve (orbit) around the Earth. So it keeps a "consistent face" in our direction. we surely see somewhat extra effective than 0.5 of its floor because it turns. this is assumed that the Moon initially had a swifter rotation (spin), however the consequence of the Earth's gravity became to decrease the spin. (The dwarf planet Pluto and its moon Charon are believed to be "dually locked", so as that each and each shows the "comparable element" to the different as Charon orbits.)