Moggie here don't take my word for it..... for a 60 something year old fart to not know this basic stuff how do you expect people to react to your other silly conspiracy theories about giants living underground, and missiles into the Pentagon etc etc etc. You need to read more Moggie...knowledge is power!
"The moon orbits the Earth once every 27.322 days. It also takes approximately 27 days for the moon to rotate once on its axis. As a result, the moon does not seem to be spinning but appears to observers from Earth to be keeping almost perfectly still. Scientists call this sychronous rotation.
The side of the moon that perpetually faces Earth is known as the near side. The opposite or "back" side is the far side. Sometimes the far side is called the dark side of the moon, but this is inaccurate. When the moon is between the Earth and the sun, during the new moon phase, the back side of the moon is bathed in daylight."
