Does the Moon revolve on its own axis?
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yes, it spins on its own axis about once every month
900400
it does not. weather has nothing to do with the moon. especally last nights Beaver moon
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You could ask the same about the sun (although the angle of Earth's rotational axis makes things somewhat more complicated in the polar regions). The moon is simply so far from earth that your position on earth's surface becomes secondary. Half a day the earth's rotation will bring you onto the side where the moon is, half a day it will bring you onto the opposite side.\n\nI know from personal experience that the moon remains visible and fairly high on the horizon even beyond the arctic circle when the sun won't rise above the horizon any more. Apparently earth's rotational axis is (almost?) perpendicular to the plane in which earth and moon circle one another.
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The Sun does rotate/turn on an axis by itself, but it also rotates around a huge black hole in the center of our galaxy, and it takes a very, very, VERY long time to complete one rotation.\n\nIt rotates around the black hole with similar principles to that of earth revolving around the sun, and yes, eventually it will be swallowed by the black hole.
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I want to add more:\n1) Due to the distance to the Moon relative to the size of our planet, it doesn't really matter from which point on Earth you are looking at our natural satellite. You will see virtually the same part of the surface.\n2) The reason the Moon rotates around its axis at about the same time it rotates around the Earth is because it is tidally locked with the Earth. Tidal lock worked for billions of years to achieve the present effect, but it's still not perfect: the Moon slightly advances or gets behind in its axial rotation relative to its revolution around the Earth. So, over time, we are actually able to see around 57% of its surface, rather than just 50%.\n3) The Earth is not close enought to the Sun to be tidally locked by its gravity (even Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, isn't). So that's why the Sun-Earth relation is different.
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If you are asking "How long is one day on the moon?", i.e. how long does it take the moon to rotate on its axis, the answer 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3 seconds long, the same as the period from full moon to full moon.
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The moon spins about an axis. The axis is almost perpendicular to the plane of the moons orbit around the earth. The period of spin (time to complete one rotation about the spin axis) is equal to the period of one revolution around the earth.\n\nThe result is we see one side of the moon.\n\nFor many people this answer is not suffice to understand.\nImagine a cubical building in a plain ground. The four vertical walls are marked A,B,C,D. Imagine the building to be the moon and we are standing infront of the wall marked A. Let us go round the building to see the other walls in the order of ABCD. When we have finished quarter round we can have the full view of the wall B. But imagine that the building rotates itself such that when we finished quarter round it also has rotated quarter round about itself. We will see only the wall A. If the things continue like this we can never see the other walls.When we complete one round the building completes one round so always we see only the wall A.\nDue to librations actually we can see 59% of the moon instead of 50%
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Well it's a natural phenomenon. If moon is not rotating then some thing else any where else in our solar system will do something to compensate for this energy.\n\nRemember : Energy can neither be created nor be destoyed and according to the energy conservation principle this energy will have to be redirected . So it can be millions of other possibilities :)\n\nLike days will be shorter ans earth rotates fast to use that excess energy or something like that.\n\n:)
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Yes, the radius of the moon's orbit is currently increasing by about 3.8 cm (about 1.5 inches) every year.  This happens because the moon raises tides on the Earth.  Because the Earth rotates faster than the moon orbits the Earth, the tidal "bulge" of the Earth on the side nearest the moon actually leads, or is in front of, the position of the moon in its orbit (see diagrams in sources given below). That "extra" mass of the Earth's tidal bulge acts to accelerate the moon in its orbit, increasing its angular momentum, and causing the moon's orbit to "spiral out" over time.  Because the angular momentum of the Earth-moon system must be conserved, the Earth's angular momentum must decrease to balance the increase in the moon's momentum, slowing the Earth's rotation rate by a bit (currently, about 15 microseconds/year).  \n\nThese rates have changed over geologic time because the position of the tidal bulge relative to the line connecting the Earth and moon depends on, among other things, the arrangement of continents and oceans on Earth.  These affect the friction affecting the tidal bulge, and therefore its velocity relative to the Earth's rotational velocity.\n\nThe energy of the Earth-moon system must also be conserved, and because the moon gets further from the Earth, its potential energy increases.  Consequently, it's kinetic energy must decrease by an amount exactly equal to the increase in potential energy.  Because the kinetic energy of the moon (or any other object) is proportional to the square of the velocity, the moon's velocity in its orbit is decreasing.\n\nThis process will continue until the moon's orbital period and the Earth's rotational period are equal, at which point the moon and Earth will be "tidally locked", with the same side of each body facing the other body at all times.\n\nThe story doesn't stop here, though.  The Earth-moon system loses angular momentum to the (Earth/moon)-sun system, resulting in an increase in the distance of the center of mass of the Earth+moon from the sun.  This is occurring today, but is a much smaller effect than the lunar tidal effect discussed above.  Once the Earth and moon are tidally locked, though, it will become the dominant effect. As a consequence, the moon's orbital radius will slowly *decrease* until the moon gets somewhere within the Roche limit, at which point (assuming the sun has not become a red giant and expanded beyond the orbit of the Earth by then!) the moon will break apart, most likely forming a ring system around the Earth.\n\nThe Roche limit is the distance from a parent body at which the difference between the gravitational force on a a satellite's near side and a satellite's far side exceeds the gravitational self attraction of the satellite.  Because the moon is made of rock, it has some cohesive strength (i.e., the moon is not just held together by self-gravitation) that will allow it to come within the true Roche limit before being disrupted.
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The moon has a side that always faces us! That's not always filled with light though. That's why we have phases of the moon.
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It doesn't wobble exactly, though if appears that way from Earth. The main cause of this libration, as the wobble is called, is that the moon's orbit is slightly elliptical. This makes it move faster in its obit at some times (when it's closer to Earth). Its axial rotation, however, is at a constant speed, so the axial rotation and orbital revolution don't quite perfectly synchronize. So when the moon is moving fast, we see a little more of the trailing edge, and when its slow, a little more of the leading edge. \n\nSome of the wobble is also due to the tilt of the moon's axis and the inclination of its orbit relative to ours.
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It turns one revolution for every orbit it makes.  This happens because of tidal locking.  Basically that means the part of the moon closest to the earth gets pulled slightly more then the further side.  This means a slight bulge forms on the moon facing earth.  This side has more mass then other part of the moon thus is "heavier."  The earth's gravity then pulls on the buldge more then the rest of the moon making the moon slowly slow down or speed up in its rotation until the bulge always points towards the earth, thus one side always faces us.
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Compared to the stars the moon moves from west to east.\nIn 27.3 days it returns to it 'start star'.\nIn one night it moves (360 / 27.3) degrees.\nIn one night it moves 13,2 degrees from west to east compared to the stars.
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When the moon is full, it is on the side of the Earth opposite the sun. It takes the moon about a month to go around the Earth once. So in the course of a single day, it remains in almost the same position.
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If you mean, Why does the moon travel from East to West ?" The answer is because The Earth rotates in the opposite direction.  In fact, the moon actually travels from West to East, and this can be seen simply by observing it on consecutive nights, and compare its position in the sky with other celestial objects.
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Yes.  Uranus actually does; its axis is almost perpendicular.  The current working hypothesis is that a massive body collided with Uranus.
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While the Moon does rotate, it is tidally locked to the Earth.  This means that we always see the same side of the Moon.\n\nThis happens when two astronomical bodies closely orbit each other.