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Earth's moon not tidally locked as it should be #61

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patudom opened this issue Aug 6, 2020 · 0 comments
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Earth's moon not tidally locked as it should be #61

patudom opened this issue Aug 6, 2020 · 0 comments

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patudom commented Aug 6, 2020

This has already been reported here, but I'd like to bump this.

In our solar system interactive, we have students try to figure out which planet has the longest day, and that requires them to run time forward a lot as they cycle through all the planets. At the end, we ask them to look at the side of the Moon facing Earth and compare it with the side of the Moon facing away from Earth, so they can observe that the side facing away from Earth has significantly fewer craters. Because the tidal locking is not accurate in the solar system model, it is likely that students will get to that part of the activity and will be looking at the wrong sides of the Moon. Is a fix possible on a soon'ish timescale?

(We can include a step to click "NOW" before observing the moon, but we really can't expect that 100% of the students will read 100% of the instructions). Thanks!

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