00:03did you know that time on the moon is different from time on earth according to scientists time
00:08on earth's only natural satellite moves faster by some 57 millionths of a second that means that
00:14since astronauts last left its surface 52 years ago the moon's clocks are ahead by around 1.1
00:19seconds it likely seems meaningless to the layman however nasa says that recent mathematical
00:24calculation will be quite important for future missions according to the space agency having
00:29the correct time in either place is extremely important for sinking navigational systems and
00:34since we're about to have another human mission to the moon in just a few years we're going to want
00:38that navigation to be spot on to the microsecond in fact these calculations were only recently doable
00:43as experts needed to develop hyper accurate atomic clocks they can even detect that amount of time
00:48change so why is time different on the lunar surface well it all comes down to einstein's
00:53general theory of relativity that outlines that an object's relative position to the center of the
00:57largest gravitational pull nearby ie the sun will change its passage of time and since the moon
01:03has around a two hundred and thirty eight thousand miles swing around our planet well we can just let
01:07NASA do the math on that one
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