Normally I don’t just post random items from the internet, but I was absolutely amazed by this video.

The moon is one of those things that we’re all familiar with, heck we see it most nights– but never like this.

This video was of particular interest to me, as I have been researching Tidal Lock (when one side of an orbiting body always faces the object it is orbiting) for my book– and didn’t fully appreciate the aspect of libration (the tipping, tilting, and rocking you see) of a tidal locked orbiting body before this video…

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Folks at the NASA GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio created this amazing animation showing our view of the Moon with time resolution of *one hour*!