Sentence examples for moon lock from inspiring English sources
If it is a full moon, lock yourself in a dark room and stay there for an hour or longer if you wish.
Most of the large moons in the Solar System, including the Moon, are tidally locked to their host planet; the same side of the moon is always facing the planet.
Maybe your character is a werewolf who doesn't want to hurt anyone on the next full moon so they lock themselves in a cellar or room.
Because the moon is tidally locked to the Earth, the moon rotates with a speed that means it always appears to have the same side facing the Earth – so I'd be sitting on the Earth side.
Given billions of years, the Earth and moon will be locked in a mutual orbit in which they always show the same face to each other, putting the moon in the same place in the sky forever.
A third possibility is where the primary and moon are tidally locked to each other.
By contrast, the water thought to be on Jupiter's moon Europa is locked under a very thick layer of surface ice.
All the major moons in the solar system, including our own moon, are tidally locked to their primaries: they always keep the same face turned inwards towards their planet.
Though a moon may become tidally locked to its parent planet, it can never be locked to a star, so it will always have some sort of day-night cycle even if it is an odd one from a terrestrial point of view.The warmth provided by tidal heating might also help make some moons which are outside their stars' habitable zones inhabitable nevertheless.
The only ways in which potential life could avoid either an inferno or a deep freeze would be if the planet had an atmosphere thick enough to transfer the star's heat from the day side to the night side, or if there was a gas giant in the habitable zone, with a habitable moon, which would be locked to the planet instead of the star, allowing a more even distribution of radiation over the planet.
