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Chinese scientists unveil reliable lunar clock that accounts for Einstein's relativity
A new software package detailed by Chinese scientists promises to tell what time it is on the moon, accounting for effects of ...
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China unveils ultra-precise lunar clock that bends with Einstein’s relativity
China has quietly solved a problem that only becomes obvious once you try to live and work off-world: clocks on the moon do ...
Researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory in China released LTE440, short for Lunar Time Ephemeris, in a recently ...
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Chinese scientists create "lunar time ephemeris" that can account for time dilation on the moon
Chinese researchers say they have created a new "lunar time ephemeris" that can calculate the time on the Moon and sync it ...
Reed Anway · On Dec. 8, 2025, the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, China published a paper in Astronomy and Astrophysics about the Lunar Time Ephemeris, or simply the LTE400, a software which ...
Most animals, including humans, carry an internal lunar clock, tuned to the 29.5-day rhythm of the Moon. It guides sleep, reproduction and migration of many species. But in the age of artificial light ...
For the first time, scientists have introduced a new software capable of telling time on the Moon, a breakthrough designed to ...
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Time Runs Faster on The Moon, And China Just Built the First Clock to Keep Up
The researchers used measurements from the Moon's gravity to program a software package that can measure lunar time.
Time does not pass at the same speed on Earth and the moon; with lower gravity, lunar clocks run faster by around 56 ...
New tech allows moon events to be accurately synchronised from Earth, paving the way for more spacecraft and people to work ...
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