Does the moon rotate on an axis

My sister and my dad say that it dosnt, I am positive it does...who is right???

Actually, it does, however, it takes the moon roughly the same amount of time to rotate on its access as it takes for the moon to circle earth. To test this, Stand 3 feet away from your sister. She is the earth and you are the moon. Now, while still facing your sister, walk in a 180degree half circle around her, If you stated out facing the front of your sister, you will now be behind her and facing her back - look at the direction you are facing - while circling, you have also spun 1/2 way around on your own axis. This is why we (on earth) only ever see one side of the moon and cannot see the other side of the moon.

The Moon rotates once in 27.32 Earth days. This is identical to the time for a revolution around the Earth, as the Moon is gravity locked. This is fairly common among moons. Both the moons of Mars, the eight closest of Jupiter's 66 moons, several of Saturn's closer moons are also gravity locked, as is Charon, Pluto's closest moon

Of course it does. Many people don't think that it rotates because we always see the same side facing us. Actually it rotates about an axis with a rotation period exactly equal to its revolution period, so it rotates at a rate so that the same side is always facing us.

You are correct. The moon does rotate on its axis relative to the Earth-moon system. The face of the moon that we see we see all the time because the moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits the Earth. If the moon did not rotate relative to the Earth-moon system we would see all faces of the moon.

The moon does not rotate relative to us, but from a universal reference frame it does.

You are.

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yes bro ..u are correct..are u the most intelligent person in ur family.??