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 organizations around the world are considering how best to keep time on the moon.
“A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this,” Giordano said in a statement.European space officials said an internationally accepted lunar time zone would make it easier for everyone, especially as more countriesThe European Space Agency is pushing for a lunar time zone., fast approaching the 25th anniversary of the launch of its first piece.
That helps to split the time difference between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, and the other partnering space programs in Russia, Japan and Europe.The international team looking into lunar time is debating whether a single organization should set and maintain time on the moon, according to the European Space Agency.Clocks run faster on the moon than on Earth, gaining about 56 microseconds each day, the space agency said.
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