2006-09-20 05:13:48 · 16 answers · asked by braveskypilot 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
They don't have clocks on the moon!
2006-09-20 05:15:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Island Girl is right. I don't know why so many people think the moon has no rotation to cause a day or night. The moon just rotates in sync with its orbit arund earth. This keeps the same face to the earth, not the sun. When the moon is on the far side of the earth from the sun, the side facing the earth is in sunlight and experiencing day and its far side is in night. When the moon is between the earth and the sun, the side facing the earth is in dark, or having night and the far side is having day.
As a lot of the answers point out, time measurement can be relative to your point of view. Do you keep the number of hours in a day the same? This would make an "hour" on the moon 28 of our hours long. Do you keep the length of the hour the same? This would give the moon about 672 hours per day (midnight to midnight). You would have midnight, sunrise, noon, and sunset but what time it is in between could be very arbitrary. It would be easier to stick with UMT or with the local time of who ever you were mainly dealing with on earth.
2006-09-20 15:04:56 · answer #2 · answered by wires 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know but this might help a little.
The moon orbits the earth with a period of four weeks and during the orbit it always has the same side facing the earth. So this means that on the moon there is day and night, but they are both two weeks long instead of 24 hours.
The Moon's daylight is brighter and harsher than the Earth's. There is no atmosphere to scatter the light, no clouds to shade it, and no ozone layer to block the sunburning ultraviolet light.
The nights are also brighter, at least on the side of the Moon near to us. The night is lit up by sunlight reflected from Earth, while the night on Earth is lit up by sunlight reflected from the Moon. Earth is much bigger than the Moon, and Earth is also more reflective (with its clouds and oceans, it reflects more light than the dark Moon rocks). Earthlight on the Moon is much brighter than Moonlight on the Earth.
2006-09-20 12:26:23 · answer #3 · answered by Island Girl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great question! I bet they use Greenwich Mean Time, now called Universal Mean Time.
Obviously, NASA created a time convention for the moon during manned flight there.
2006-09-20 12:16:00 · answer #4 · answered by Oh Boy! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no time on the moon
2006-09-20 12:19:13 · answer #5 · answered by Cody 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
one side is always noon and the other is always midnight LOL
The moon does not rotate the way the earth does, which is why we have the different phases of the moon: crescent, full, etc. One side is always facing away from the sun (dark side of the moon) and one side always faces the sun.
(my first answer was a joke)
2006-09-20 12:22:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time on the moon and any other celestial body is actually relative to the person asking. Time given in Hours, minutes, seconds, etc is a purely earth measurement. To keep things in sync for us, we carry our time measurement along with us as we travel from place to place and this includes other planetary bodies.
Therefore, time on the moon is a 'markable' measurement but time here on earth is. Thus... there is no answer to your question.
Sorry.. but hopefully this helps!
2006-09-20 12:19:56 · answer #7 · answered by wrkey 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Time is recorded or given as a convention based on Grenwhich (sp.) Mean Time. That is on the planet Earth. Has anyone established a time convention for anyplace off Earth?
2006-09-20 12:21:18 · answer #8 · answered by lil'oleJewler 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is irrelevant on space. There is no way to calculate time on space or the moon. The earth is the only one the count with time calculation.
2006-09-20 12:17:02 · answer #9 · answered by viperfet_007 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hammer Time!
2006-09-20 12:23:11 · answer #10 · answered by superdude superdude superdude 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋