Is moon revolving round its axis? If so at what speed?

Answer 1

There is a 'far side' of the moon, because the moon is in synchronous orbit. The same side is always facing the earth.

Answer 2

The spin period of the moon would be a moon day. Its trajectory relative to the Sun is cycloidal. For that reason except for the new moon ,we see the moon reflecting the sun's ray a good portion of the side real month.
Since one moon day equal one sidereal month ,we observe only the same face of the moon. So the moon travels about 1/13 of the orbit distance around the sun in 27.3 earth sidereal days.Therefore it takes 27.3 sidereal earth days for the moon to spin on itself.
Since the moon also orbits earth relative to their system barrycenter, it has an average orbit velocity of aprox. 1200 km per second.
However the Total vectorial velocity of the moon is the sum of three vectors speeds.

Answer 3

If you were to observe our moon from say Mars, it would exhibit one rotation about every month as it orbits the earth. You could see all the 'faces' of the moon from Mars. The moon does not rotate on a stationary axis because the axis is orbiting the earth. In like manner, the earth spins on an axis that is orbiting the sun.

Answer 4

Yes, the Moon rotates once every 27.3 days, the same amount of time it takes to revolve in its orbit, such that one side always faces the Earth.

Answer 5

1 revolution every 28 days. It is gravity sync to the earth so that the heavy side is always next to the earth.

Answer 6

One revolution per 'lunar-month' and that's why we can see only one side of the earth's moon.

Answer 7

the moon does not revolve around its axis, the face of the moon we see is always the same, we never see the other side...........

Answer 8

yes.Avg. orbital speed: 1.022 km/s (2286 mph)
Max. orbital speed: 1.082 km/s (2420 mph)
Min. orbital speed: 0.968 km/s (2165 mph)