{"id":32912,"date":"2024-04-03T17:10:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=32912"},"modified":"2024-04-03T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:11:30","slug":"moon-standard-time-nasa-to-create-lunar-centric-time-reference-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=32912","title":{"rendered":"Moon Standard Time? Nasa to create lunar-centric time reference system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a1eb5c1b14711fa73d04cfece3c863a50403e21e\/0_0_2889_1926\/master\/2889.jpg?width=1900&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none\" width=\"292\" height=\"195\"><\/figure><p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Space agency tasked with establishing Coordinated Lunar Time, partly to aid missions requiring extreme precision<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2024\/apr\/02\/moon-nasa-coordinated-lunar-time\">Moon Standard Time? Nasa to create lunar-centric time reference system<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;It\u2019s not quite a time zone like those on Earth, but an entire frame of time reference for the moon. Because there\u2019s less gravity on the moon, time there moves a tad more quickly \u2013 58.7 microseconds every day \u2013 compared with on Earth.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>doesn&#8217;t the moon&#8217;s relative motion to earth also add to this difference in time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space agency tasked with establishing Coordinated Lunar Time, partly to aid missions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[375,1823,361],"class_list":["post-32912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-moon","tag-relativity","tag-time","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32915,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32912\/revisions\/32915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}