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Briefly explain the rotation of the Moon.

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The Moon rotates while revolving around the Earth and has following features:
  • The Moon orbits the Earth once every 27.322 days.
  • It also takes approximately 27 days for the Moon to rotate once on its axis.
  • Thus, the Moon does not seem to be spinning but appears to observers to be almost still from Earth.

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