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
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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