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

Archived version: https://archive.ph/ObWSZ

  • neuracnuEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Because there’s less gravity on the moon, time there moves a tad more quickly – 58.7 microseconds every day – compared with on Earth.

    I thought time dilation was caused by bodies moving at high speeds relative to one another, not differences in gravity.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation

    Hey, it’s 6am and I learned something new today. :)