The moon rotates the earth from west to east in an axis in which the moon crosses 13 ° angle in one day or 24 hours . So it takes 28 days , 6 hours , 43 minutes and 11 seconds for the moon to orbit the earth. This is why we see the same surface of the moon from the earth. From Earth we see about 59 percent of the moon. The moon always has a region of the sky called the Judyack. Which is about 6 degrees below the equator and above the eclipse. The moon crosses it every two weeks ৷ that's why we look in different directions.