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With space agencies racing to the moon, scientists are making a lunar 'time zone'

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NASA 's Artemis program aims to return humans to the moon in the near future.

The gravitational force of the moon makes atomic clocks there tick faster by about 56 microseconds per day when compared to an atomic clock on Earth .

This is the first step towards a lunar GPS system, allowing for complicated coordination between satellites and inhabitants on the moon .