Does it seem odd to anyone else but me that the moon rotates at exactly the same rate as it orbits the Earth, thus always presenting the same side of the moon to our vision? Quite a coincidence!

Is that not strange??? It's more than strange. It's almost unbelievable.

Just sit down for a minute and try and figure out what the odds are against it occurring that way...

I think it's got to be one of the oddest things I've ever heard of. No one on this planet ever got to see the far side of the moon until the space missions of the late 60's.

I wouldn't think this would be the case with many planetary satellites (which also rotate on their own axis while orbiting their planet). I would assume that some of them rotate (on their own axis) and that others don't, but I can't say I know for sure. What's the case with the moons of Mars, Jupiter or Saturn, for instance? Rotation? No rotation? Different rates of rotation?