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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  • 5765313496@lemmy.world
    22·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      so atomic clocks on the moon would go out of sync over a long period compared to those on earth…

      • pelya@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        7 months ago

        When you are measuring precise distance to the Moon using lasers, 50 microseconds is about 1.5 kilometers.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          1·
          7 months ago

          Except 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.