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

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] pelya 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Except the light is also affected by time dilation so surely it wouldn't matter.

It would only matter if you were measuring a distance between a satellite and the surface.