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2 de dic. de 2022 · The Moon's Orbit and Rotation. Image Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. Published: December 2, 2022. Historical Date: November 23, 2020. An enduring myth about the Moon is that it doesn't rotate.
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The Moon takes about one month to orbit Earth (27.3 days to...
- Moon Facts
This movement is from the Moon’s orbit, which takes 27 days, 7 hours and 43 minutes to go full circle. It causes the Moon to move 12–13 degrees east every day. This shift means Earth has to rotate a little longer to bring the Moon into view, which is why moonrise is about 50 minutes later each day.
The Moon orbits Earth in the prograde direction and completes one revolution relative to the Vernal Equinox and the stars in about 27.32 days (a tropical month and sidereal month) and one revolution relative to the Sun in about 29.53 days (a synodic month ).
It travels around our planet once every 27.322 days in an elliptical orbit, an elongated circle. The Moon is tidally locked with Earth, which means that it spins on its axis exactly once each time it orbits our planet. Because of this, people on Earth only ever see one side of the Moon. We call this motion synchronous rotation.
