What is the difference between the rotation of the earth and that of the moon?

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Answer 1 · 2018-06-18T15:00:37

Earth rotates itself in 23 hours 56 minutes

Moon rotates in in 27 days and 8 hours once.It also revolves around Earth in the same time..Moon is tidally locked.with Earth.

Answer 2 · 2018-06-18T15:05:29

The moon has a "synchronous rotation" orbit the earth does not.

The Earth rotates on its axis every 24 hours and orbits the sun once a year.

The moon rotates on its axis every 27.32 days and it orbits the earth every 27.32 days, this means that same face of the moon always faces earth.