Space agency tasked with establishing Coordinated Lunar Time, partly to aid missions requiring extreme precision

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

  • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    so atomic clocks on the moon would go out of sync over a long period compared to those on earth…

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      8 months ago

      When you are measuring precise distance to the Moon using lasers, 50 microseconds is about 1.5 kilometers.