Does earths moon rotate about its own axis as does…?
Yes the moon spins on its axis – thats how we only see one face. If it did not spin, we would see one side of the moon when it is on one side of the Earth, and the other side of the moon when it’s on the other side! It spins such that the rotation period and orbital period are the same ADDED: to answer your question about the period. 29.5 days is the time between successive full moon – not the orbital or rotation period. It takes the moon 27.3 days to orbit the Earth once and to rotate on its axis once – but because the Earth is orbiting the sun – the direction to the sun changes – so the moon has to travel through more than 360deg to get back to the full moon phase – hence 29.5 days. This also means that a solar day (noon to noon) on the moon is 29.5 days, even tho it rotates in only 27.3 days MORE ADDED: from wikipedia: “Blue moon is also a name given to an extra full moon during a year. Most years have twelve full moons, which occur approximately monthly. However, each calendar year
