The Moon In Motion
The Eight Lunar Phases
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It travels around our planet once every 27.322 days in an elliptical orbit, an elongated circle. The Moon is tidally
locked with Earth, which means that it spins on its axis exactly once each time it orbits our planet. Because of this,
people on Earth only ever see one side of the Moon.
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