One Side of the Moon ALWAYS Faces Us. Why is that? | Tidal Locking

Tidal locking is when the rotation of a planet or moon is equal to its orbital period. It's actually quite common in our solar system and likely elsewhere. How does that actually happen though? Nick Lucid - Host/Writer/Editor/Animator Sean Reese - Researcher ________________________________ VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS Earth Surface Scale:    • If Earth Was Small, Could You Feel Detail?   Life Cycle of the Sun:    • The Sun will turn into a Red Giant TWICE!   ________________________________ RELATED YOUTUBE VIDEOS MinutePhysics on Tidal Locking:    • Tidal Locking | Why Do We Only See One Sid...   ________________________________ SUPPORT THE SCIENCE ASYLUM Patreon:   / scienceasylum   YouTube Membership:    / @scienceasylum   Advanced Theoretical Physics (Paperback): http://www.lulu.com/shop/nick-lucid/a... Advanced Theoretical Physics (eBook): https://gumroad.com/l/ubSc Merchandise: https://www.scienceasylum.com ________________________________ HUGE THANK YOU TO THESE SUPPORTERS Asylum Counselors: Matthew O'Connor, Nikolaos Vasiloglou II Asylum Orderlies: Dhruv Singhal, Fabio Manzini, Medec Hurtz Einsteinium Crazies: Bosphorus, Eoin O'Sullivan, Ilya Yashin, Jonathan Lima, Joseph Salomone, OnlineBookClub, Sean K, Wacky, Blank NA, Flying Monkey, Christopher Schiele Plutonium Crazies: Al Davis, Compuart, Ellis Hall, Kevin MacLean, Madhu Subbu, Rick Myers, Vid Icarus Platinum Crazies: André Weyermann, Benjamin Dixon, Benjamin Reynolds, Clayton Bruckert, David Johnston, James Coley, Jon Adams, Jonas Wepeel, Jonathan Reel, Kyle Bowles, Marino Hernandez, Mikayla Eckel Cifrese, Mr. Orn Jonasar, Olga Cooperman, Patrick Mathieson, Stephen Blinn, Stephen Gailey, Tom Hawking, Don Wilshe ________________________________ OTHER SOURCES General Info: https://www.pas.rochester.edu/~blackm... https://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tys... https://phys.org/news/2013-10-explana... https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MR... https://www.eso.org/public/outreach/e... https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/sa... https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/pl... https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary... https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary... Deeper Reading: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/ful... https://link.springer.com/article/10.... https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do... "Mercury" by T.J. Mahoney https://books.google.com/books?id=iC6... "Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System" by John Lewis https://books.google.com/books?id=35u... "Solar System Dynamics" by Carl D. Murray, Stanley F. Dermott https://books.google.com/books?id=aU6... ________________________________ LINKS TO COMMENTS    • Capacitors Are Gaps! How Does That Work?!      • Capacitors Are Gaps! How Does That Work?!      • Capacitors Are Gaps! How Does That Work?!      • Capacitors Are Gaps! How Does That Work?!   ________________________________ IMAGE CREDITS Moon Phases: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4874 Tide Animations: https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-in-motion/... Mars's Moons: https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/6141/... https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/6989/... Jupiter's Moons: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cat... https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cat... https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cat... https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resource... Saturn's Moons: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cat... https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/sa... https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/sa... Pluto and Charon: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-an... Trappist-1: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jp... ________________________________ TIME CODES: 00:00 Cold Open 00:23 Introduction 00:49 Resonance 03:25 Tidal Bulges 06:05 The Factors 09:15 Outro 09:33 Featured Comment ________________________________ Corrections: 8:51 My statement about "eyeball planets" lacks nuance. Please read the comment from a NASA climate scientist for more details. Link is in pinned comment.