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Does the Moon Rotate?

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Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Some crazy yahoo that I used to know kept telling me that Satan was building an army and that they were all on the back of the moon and that when we sent the Saturn rockets up, we found silicon buildings on the back face of the moon.
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Well, yeah, There's THAT...
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It is tidally locked with the earth that's why it's rotation meets its revolution.

Mercury is so close to the sun that it's becoming tidally locked as well. It's rotation is 58.6 days and it's orbit 88 days.

Few more billion years.
 
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