Re: The Moon
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:05 pm
White House wants Moon to have its own time zone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-687220324 hours ago
The White House wants US space agency Nasa to develop a new time zone for the Moon - Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC).
Because of the different gravitational field strength on the Moon, time moves quicker there relative to Earth - 58.7 microseconds every day.
This might not seem like much, but it can have a significant impact when trying to synchronise spacecraft.
The US government hopes the new time will help keep national and private efforts to reach the moon co-ordinated.
Prof Catherine Heymans, Scotland's Astronomer Royal, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "This fundamental theory of gravity in our Universe has an important consequence that time runs differently in different places in the Universe.
