Moon Standard Time? Nasa to create lunar-centric time reference system
Moon Standard Time? Nasa to create lunar-centric time reference system
Space agency tasked with establishing Coordinated Lunar Time, partly to aid missions requiring extreme precision
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Space agency tasked with establishing Coordinated Lunar Time, partly to aid missions requiring extreme precision
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Because there’s less gravity on the moon, time there moves a tad more quickly – 58.7 microseconds every day – compared to on Earth.
Okay, that's even cooler than I thought.
24 0 Replyso atomic clocks on the moon would go out of sync over a long period compared to those on earth...
1 0 ReplyWhen you are measuring precise distance to the Moon using lasers, 50 microseconds is about 1.5 kilometers.
4 0 ReplyExcept the light is also affected by time dilation so surely it wouldn't matter.
It would only matter if you were measuring a distance between a satellite and the surface.
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