NASA has announced plans to standardize the temporal readings for our lunar cousin by developing an official Coordinated Lunar Time measurement, or CLT. That’s right: it’s a time zone for the moon.
“The existence of a common time reference is the basis of our everyday life activities on Earth, and the same will be true on the Moon with the development of a lunar economy and the expansion of lunar exploration,” Javier Ventura-Traveset, Moonlight Project navigation manager at the European Space Agency (ESA), told Newsweek.
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