Time Zones
What do you think of our scientists and space exploration people that are wanting to place Time Zones on the moon as we have on earth?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I can't judge their idea but do wonder why they think it necessary. The Moon does rotate but at the same rate as it orbits the Earth, so keeping the same aspect to us.
LandOfOz · 61-69, M
Too late its allready done. 1st quarter, 2nd quarter, 3rd quarter and full moon
SW-User
should come in handy when booking vacation on the moon 😌
SW-User
Seems logical to me.
https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-the-moon-needs-its-own-time-zone-121559989.html
Now we wait for Marjorie Taylor Greene to tell us how this is somehow Satanic or something 🤣
https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-the-moon-needs-its-own-time-zone-121559989.html
Space agencies and private companies around the world have been scheduling their own lunar missions over the next few years, and that could be quite complicated to coordinate when they all use different time zones. During a meeting at the European Space Agency's ESTEC technology center in the Netherlands last year, space organizations discussed the "importance and urgency of defining a common lunar reference time."
In a new announcement, ESA navigation system engineer Pietro Giordano said a "joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this." There are a few challenges: They will have to decide whether to keep lunar time synchronized with Earth's or not because clocks on the Moon run faster based on the satellite's position. Each day on the Moon is, in Earth terms, 29.5 days long.
In a new announcement, ESA navigation system engineer Pietro Giordano said a "joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this." There are a few challenges: They will have to decide whether to keep lunar time synchronized with Earth's or not because clocks on the Moon run faster based on the satellite's position. Each day on the Moon is, in Earth terms, 29.5 days long.
Now we wait for Marjorie Taylor Greene to tell us how this is somehow Satanic or something 🤣