Does the moon rotate on its axis like planet earth? Why or why not?
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For example, the same side of the Moonalways faces the Earth, although there is some libration because the Moon's orbit is not perfectly circular. A tidally locked body in synchronous rotation takes just as long to rotate around its own axis as it does to revolve around its partner.
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