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Nasa shows a "rotating moon"
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 12:46 pm
by Atgets_Apprentice
Nasa has released images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showing what the moon would look like if it rotated in Earth orbit. Fascinating!
http://www.theguardian.com/science/vide ... nasa-video
Re: Nasa shows a "rotating moon"
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 3:29 am
by Rhtubbs
The 'far' side is a lot different than the near side. Far more smaller craters.
Re: Nasa shows a "rotating moon"
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 2:19 pm
by Greg Beetham
There is a tentative theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTVps-M46tI about why the moon has a smooth-ish looking side (our side) and the rough other side, NASA is going to map the gravity highs and lows on the moon to try to find out what lurks beneath.
Greg
Ps the moon does actually rotate even though it always points the same ‘face’ in our direction, the rotation speed matches the orbital speed around the earth so in the time it takes to do a lap around the earth it also does one rotation, with a bit of side to side rocking and up and down nodding thrown in.