Fake as a 3.76 dollar bill

What id this, /v/shittyaskscience ?

The simple answer is the moon rotates once for every rotation around the Earth. This is why from Earth, the moon always looks the same.

If you look back from space, you would only see the "backside" of the moon, that we never see from Earth. As @floormatt3 mentioned, its tidally locked.

You are seeing what to us the 'dark side of the moon'

Idk but the clouds are beautiful

The moon is rotating, but it's such a small frame size that we only see a very, very small percentage of the moon orbiting the Earth. As well, the moon is tidally locked. This means that the same side of Luna is always facing our Earth. If one side is always facing Terra, then the other side must always be facing away. So the side we see is the "dark side". It's the side we don't see.

Long story short, no. This is a real video, the moon is rotating, but we can't tell in this narrow point of view. The same side of the moon is always facing Earth, so although it appears to be still it is truly rotating.

There's actually some science as to why we only see half of the moon https://youtu.be/6jUpX7J7ySo

Please someone explain. Before my last strands of trust are completely gone from this world.