There’s an ongoing international effort to keep time accurately on the moon. And it’s not just about creating a “lunar time zone.”
Perhaps the greatest, mind-bending quirk of our universe is the inherent trouble with timekeeping: Seconds tick by ever so slightly faster atop a mountain than they do in the valleys of Earth. For practical purposes, most people don’t have to worry about those differences. But a renewed space race has the United States and its allies, as well as China, dashing to create permanent settlements on the moon, and that has brought the idiosyncrasies of time, once again, to the forefront.
’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Rather, the space agency and its partners are looking to create an entirely new “time scale,” or system of measurement that accounts for that fact that seconds tick by faster on the moon, Gramling noted. The agency’s goal is to work with international partners to set up a new method of tracking time, specifically for the moon, that space-faring nations agree to observe.
implement such a system by the end of 2026, the same year the space agency is aiming to return astronauts to the moon for the first time in five decades. For the world’s timekeepers, the coming months could be crucial for figuring out how to accurately keep lunar time — and reach agreements on how, when and where to put clocks on the moon. Such a framework will be crucial for humans visiting our closest celestial neighbor, Gramling told CNN.
and its allies have dubbed LunaNet. “You can think of LunaNet like the internet — or the internet and a global navigation satellite system all combined,” Gramling said. It’s “a framework of standards that contributors to LunaNet would follow.” “And you can think of the contributors maybe as your internet service provider,” Gramling added. Creating such a framework means bringing a lot of people across the world to the table.
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