HOW do you know what time it is? Easy, you look at your watch. But it gets a little tricky if you want to know the time in another country, particularly if that country is in a different time zone.
This is why the European Space Agency (ESA) has now called for the moon to get its own time zone.
Moon missions currently run on the time of the country that launched the spacecraft. But with more and more lunar missions being planned, a universal timekeeping system is needed to smooth communication among the various countries and companies that are organising trips to and around the moon.
The ESA wants the missions to operate on standardised time, but many details still need to be worked out.
HOW DOES TIME WORK ON EARTH?
Time zones are based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is also called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Greenwich is a town in England, and all
