NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Stay in Orbit by Victor Lundberg / courtesy of Epidemic Sound ...

In one orbit of about 29.5 days ... from full moon to new moon. At the bottom right corner, the animation also tracks the boundary of sunlight falling across the moon as it rotates.

A new animation depicts that process with ... which pushes the moon outward and makes its orbit larger. That's why researchers look to the imprints of ancient ocean tides to determine how fast ...