Maybe it is my own ignorance, but when I was photographing the full moon, I wanted to know when I was going to see the other side of the moon. Guess what? It's not possible. The rotation of the moon can be defined as the time it takes the moon to spin around its own axis and the same time it takes the moon to orbit once around the Earth, which is 27.3 days.
If both times are equal, then that means the moon's rotation is synchronized, and thus the same face faces Earth at all times. The other hemisphere always faces away—the lunar far side—and can only be seen from spacecraft or photographed from spacecraft. Too bad I cannot do that.
~ Anna
If both times are equal, then that means the moon's rotation is synchronized, and thus the same face faces Earth at all times. The other hemisphere always faces away—the lunar far side—and can only be seen from spacecraft or photographed from spacecraft. Too bad I cannot do that.
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