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The moon is showing its same face to the earth because:

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Because it is “tidally-locked” to the Earth. The Earth’s gravity slows down the moon’s rotation, so that it rotates at the same speed as it revolves around the Earth. Imagine a person who walks around a center pole, but shifts their body so they are always facing it as they walk.

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