Why can we only see one side of the moon? 🌔 | Quick question with Prof. Martin Tajmar 

From earth, we always see the same side of the moon - even though the moon rotates on its own axis. Prof. Martin Tajmar from the Institute of Aerospace Engineering at TU Dresden explains why we still never get to see the other side.
The reason for this is the bound rotation of the celestial bodies. The moon rotates around the earth in 27 days and needs the same amount of time to rotate once around itself. This is due to the Earth's gravitational force, which deforms the moon into an elliptical shape. In this shape, the moon cannot escape the Earth's gravitational pull.
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