[ProtectOurFreedom]

Based on that animation, the moon orbits the earth in about 20 hours, not 28 days.

[Red Badger]

Sped up slightly...............

[Campion]

You’re only seeing a tiny slice of the moon’s orbit. The spacecraft is a little over 900,000 mi from earth, the moon is 250,000 mi, so quite a bit closer to the spacecraft than the earth is.

[Syllojism]

Based on that animation, the moon orbits the earth in about 20 hours, not 28 days.

The earth, the moon, and the camera are all in motion, and the distances between them are immense. This only shows a small arc of the moon's rotation around earth.