It takes 27 days for the moon to spin completely and the exact same time for it to orbit around earth, thus creating a situation where we can always only see the same side of the moon.
Surely, this synchronization is not a coincidence but how exactly did we reach that point? I read some articles but found them vague.
In: Planetary Science
The Moon isn’t perfectly symmetrical, so the Earth “pulls” on one side more. Overtime, this pull locked one side of the Moon towards the Earth.
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