Telling Time on Other Worlds

https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/houston-we-have-a-podcast/telling-time-on-other-worlds/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nn202616 Time is so ubiquitous to our everyday lives that we often just think of it as numbers on a clock face. But what happens when we leave Earth? How do we track time where mornings and evenings don’t match a 24‑hour cycle, or where even seconds tick differently, like on the Moon? On the latest episode of Houston We Have a Podcast, hear how NASA plans to keep time on other worlds and why accurate timekeeping is essential for spaceflight.