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
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Moon Phases:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4874

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https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/6989/...

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https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resource...

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Pluto and Charon:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-an...

Trappist-1:
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jp...
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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
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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.