{"id":22156,"date":"2024-04-04T05:10:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22156"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:25:00","slug":"tidally-locked-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tidally-locked-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidally Locked Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Tidally locked Planet:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A tidally-locked planet in its orbit around a star keeps the same face towards the star.\u00a0This happens when the\u00a0<strong>rotation period<\/strong>\u00a0of the planet around its own axis becomes\u00a0<strong>equal<\/strong>\u00a0to its\u00a0<strong>revolution period around the star.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On a tidally locked planet,\u00a0<strong>one side<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>always facing a star<\/strong>\u00a0while the other is cloaked in perpetual darkness. The dark side could be so cold that water and would-be atmospheric components (e.g., carbon dioxide, nitrogen, or methane) are frozen, certainly an inhospitable environment for life.<\/li>\n<li>Examples of Tidal Locking:\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Moon<\/strong>\u00a0is tidally locked to the Earth because it rotates in exactly the same time as it takes to orbit the Earth. That is why we only see one side of the Moon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pluto-Charon system:<\/strong>\u00a0Here both bodies are of comparable size and are close together, both bodies can be tidally locked to each other<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tidal locking does influence how a planet moves, because tidal locking slows down its spin.<\/li>\n<li>This phenomenon of tidal locking can happen with other bodies in space too, as astronomers often say that binary stars or star systems that have two stars at their center, are most likely tidally locked to each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>\u00a0Q1: What is Total Solar Eclipse?<\/h3>\n<p>A total solar eclipse is a condition when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and completely blocks the Sun&#8217;s disk, casting a huge shadow on the surface<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-04-tidally-super-earth-exoplanet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">First tidally locked super-Earth exoplanet confirmed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tidally Locked Planet in its orbit around a star keeps the same face towards the star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}