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A super stable laser on the moon could guide future lunar missions and improve our timekeeping

  • February 18, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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A super stable laser on the moon could guide future lunar missions and improve our timekeeping
Scientists are proposing to build a laser in a crater on the moon to help future lunar missions land safely in the dark and find their way around. This ultra-stable light source could also help us keep time more accurately, as they explain in a paper available on the arXiv preprint server.

Originally published at Phys.org

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