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At the same time that the moon completes its true orbit around the earth, it also turns once around its axis, from which it necessarily follows that it always shows only one and the same side to the earth.
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Schmidt, J.F.J. (2020). Rotation and Libration. In: The Moon. Historical & Cultural Astronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37269-9_4
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