Via Colossal (specifically, Colossal purveyor Christopher Jobson's twitter account), Kottke, and Yahoo! News blog Geekquinox, this video is made from thousands of high resolution still images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's wide angle camera. As is somewhat common knowledge, Geekquinox notes:
The moon really does rotate, even though it doesn't look like it from here. Because the moon is 'tidally locked' to the Earth, that means that it always has one face pointed towards us. However, it also means that the time it takes to rotate once is the same as the time it takes to go around the Earth — 27 days.
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