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A new era of lunar exploration is on the rise, with dozens of Moon missions planned for the coming decade but one thing that is not yet clear is when and how the moon's time will be set.According to the European Space Agency (ESA), space organizations have started considering how to keep time on the Moon.
Having begun with a meeting at ESA's ESTEC technology center in the Netherlands last November, the discussion is part of a larger effort to agree on common ‘LunaNet& architecture covering lunar communication and navigation services.LunaNet is a framework of mutually agreed-upon standards, protocols and interface requirements allowing future lunar missions to work together, conceptually similar to what we did on Earth for joint use of GPS and Galileo,& explains Javier Ventura-Traveset, ESA's Moonlight Navigation Manager, coordinating ESA contributions to LunaNet.Timing is a crucial element, adds ESA navigation system engineer Pietro Giordano: &During this meeting at ESTEC, we agreed on the importance and urgency of defining a common lunar reference time, which is internationally accepted and towards which all lunar systems and users may refer to.
A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this.Among the current topics under debate is whether a single organization should similarly be responsible for setting and maintaining lunar time.
And also, whether lunar time should be set on an independent basis on the Moon or kept synchronized with Earth.The international team working on the subject will face considerable technical issues.
For example, clocks on the Moon run faster than their terrestrial equivalents & gaining around 56 microseconds or millionths of a second per day.
Their exact rate depends on their position on the Moon, ticking differently on the lunar surface than from orbit.Of course, the agreed time system will also have to be practical for astronauts,& explains Bernhard Hufenbach, a member of the Moonlight Management Team from ESA's Directorate of Human and Robotic Exploration.
&This will be quite a challenge on a planetary surface where in the equatorial region each day is 29.5 days long, including freezing fortnight-long lunar nights, with the whole of Earth just a small blue circle in the dark sky.
But having established a working time system for the Moon, we can go on to do the same for other planetary destinations.The post Telling time on the Moon first appeared on Ariana News.





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