If you stood on the Moon, you’d see Earth frozen in one spot in the sky. 🌍 Astrophysicist Erika Hamden unpacks how tidal locking, a gravitational effect that causes the Moon to rotate once for every orbit around Earth, keeps one side of the Moon permanently facing us. It’s why we always see the same lunar face from Earth, and why Earth would stay fixed in the sky for anyone standing on the Moon. You’d still see Earth slowly rotate, with different continents turning into view, but it would never

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