{"id":4796,"date":"2011-02-24T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T22:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:50:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:50:55","slug":"why-the-same-side-of-the-moon-always-faces-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/why-the-same-side-of-the-moon-always-faces-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Same Side of the Moon Always Faces the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/moon-rotation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4797\" title=\"moon-rotation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/moon-rotation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/moon-rotation.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/moon-rotation-340x238.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why the Moon Looks Bigger on the Horizon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/why-the-moon-looks-bigger-on-the-horizon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why the Moon Looks Bigger on the Horizon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Moon always has the same side pointing towards the Earth due to its rotation speed matching its orbit around the Earth exactly.\u00a0\u00a0 This isn\u2019t by chance and it wasn\u2019t always this way.\u00a0 When the Moon first formed, its rotation speed was very different than it is now.\u00a0 Over time, the Earth\u2019s gravitational field gradually slowed the Moon\u2019s rotation until the orbital period and the rotational speed stabilized.\u00a0 This effect isn\u2019t unique to our moon, but also to many of the moon\u2019s orbiting various planets in our solar system.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why the Moon Looks Bigger on the Horizon Text Version The Moon always has the same side pointing towards the Earth due to its rotation speed matching its orbit around the Earth exactly.\u00a0\u00a0 This isn\u2019t by chance and it wasn\u2019t always this way.\u00a0 When the Moon first formed, its rotation speed was [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1144,1265],"class_list":["post-4796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-astronomy-facts","tag-dark-side-of-the-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7086,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions\/7086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}