Lunar Time Zone

What is in the News ?

• With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon its own time zone.
• This week, the agency said space organisations around the world are considering how best to keep time on the moon.
• For now, a moon mission runs on the time of the country that is operating the spacecraft. 
• European space officials said an internationally accepted lunar time zone would make it easier for everyone, especially as more countries and even private companies aim for the moon and NASA gets set to send astronauts there.
• Time on Earth is precisely tracked by atomic clocks, but synchronizing time on the moon is tricky because clocks run faster there, gaining around 56 microseconds, or millionths of a second, per day.
• While the space station doesn’t have its own time zone, it runs on Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, which is meticulously based on atomic clocks.

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