Just hit me now, and maybe I'm way past my bedtime, but I always thought the rotation creates the gravity on planets. But the moon does not spin/turn. So how does the astronauts stay on the moon (if they were ever there)?
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I cheated and copied and pasted this using AI,
"Yes, the moon rotates on its axis, and it takes the same amount of time to rotate as it does to orbit the Earth, which is about 27.322 days. This is called synchronous rotation, and it's a type of tidal locking. Because of this, the same side of the moon always faces Earth, which is called the near side, while the opposite side is called the far side. This means that the moon's day is as long as its year, and it appears almost stationary to observers on Earth".