Space agency tasked with establishing Coordinated Lunar Time, partly to aid missions requiring extreme precision
Archived version: https://archive.ph/ObWSZ
Space agency tasked with establishing Coordinated Lunar Time, partly to aid missions requiring extreme precision
Archived version: https://archive.ph/ObWSZ
“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.
so atomic clocks on the moon would go out of sync over a long period compared to those on earth…
When you are measuring precise distance to the Moon using lasers, 50 microseconds is about 1.5 kilometers.