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Time runs faster on the Moon, and China just built the first clock to keep up
The researchers used measurements from the Moon's gravity to program a software package that can measure lunar time.
Time moves differently in space. Near black holes, gravity slows clocks and stretches seconds. This explainer reveals how time bends and affects astronauts and Earth.
A new software package detailed by Chinese scientists promises to tell what time it is on the moon, accounting for effects of relativity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
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Tracking time is one of those things that seems easy, until you really start to get into the details of what time actually is. We define a second as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium atom.
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