NASA Develops New Moon Time

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NASA confirms it’s developing the Moon’s new time zone

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The White House issued a memo in April directing NASA to create a new lunar time zone by 2026 .

An Earth clock on the Moon would gain about 56 microseconds a day — enough to throw off calculations that could put future missions requiring precision in danger.

The time standard will be determined by a weighted average of atomic clocks on the moon .

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