Would there be any noticeable effects here if the moon rotated at a faster rate than its current synchronous rotation with Earth?
• While the time the moon takes to orbit Earth has major effects, most notably the tides, its rate of rotation (or spin) has no real physical impact.
Perhaps humans would be affected culturally, though. The spin rates of the moon and Earth are synchronous, which means the same face of the moon always points towards us. If its spin changed there would no longer be a constant “man in the moon” visible, just changing surface features. If this…
