The Morning After: The Moon wants its personal time zone

House businesses and personal corporations around the globe have been scheduling their very own lunar missions over the following few years, and that may very well be fairly sophisticated to coordinate after they all use completely different time zones. Throughout a gathering on the European House Company’s ESTEC know-how heart within the Netherlands final 12 months, house organizations mentioned the “significance and urgency of defining a common lunar reference time.”

In a brand new announcement, ESA navigation system engineer Pietro Giordano mentioned a “joint worldwide effort is now being launched in direction of reaching this.” There are a couple of challenges: They must determine whether or not to maintain lunar time synchronized with Earth’s or not as a result of clocks on the Moon run sooner based mostly on the satellite tv for pc’s place. Every day on the Moon is, in Earth phrases, 29.5 days lengthy.

– Mat Smith

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The corporate’s insurance policies lean closely on the aspect of householders.

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