Dark Side of the Earth: What would happen if our planet became tidally locked?
There ’s a reason we only ever see one side of the Moon . It ’s tidally locked to the worldly concern , acquaint only one side to us as it orbits around the planet . Tidal lockup is a luck that befalls raft of planetary bodies , and it can make for mayhem on the surface . Why does tidal locking bechance ? And more importantly , why has n’t Earth become a tidally locked major planet ?...