Comment on Moon Standard Time? Nasa to create lunar-centric time reference system
5765313496@lemmy.world 5 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.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
so atomic clocks on the moon would go out of sync over a long period compared to those on earth…
pelya@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When you are measuring precise distance to the Moon using lasers, 50 microseconds is about 1.5 kilometers.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 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.