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In fact, the angle between the axis of the earth and the ecliptic plane is about 23.5 degrees. If you look in the next animated image, you can see that while earth moves in an orbit around the sun in the ecliptic plane, it rotates around its own axis under that angle of 23.5 degrees all the while.
In fact, as the Moon travels around the Earth in a counter-clockwise orbit every 27.5 days, it also completes one full rotation on its axis â also moving in a counter-clockwise direction.his is known as libration. On average, the Moon is tidally locked to the Earthâs surface. But its actual orbit is elliptical, it moves closer and then more distant from the Earth.