{"id":168338,"date":"2023-07-26T06:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T11:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/an-800-year-old-mathematical-trick-could-help-with-lunar-navigation"},"modified":"2023-07-26T06:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T11:24:32","slug":"an-800-year-old-mathematical-trick-could-help-with-lunar-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/an-800-year-old-mathematical-trick-could-help-with-lunar-navigation","title":{"rendered":"An 800-year-old mathematical trick could help with lunar navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-800-year-old-mathematical-trick-could-help-with-lunar-navigation3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kamilla Czir\u00e1ki, a geophysics student at the Faculty of Science of E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University (ELTE), has taken a new approach to researching the navigation systems that can be used on the surface of the moon to plan future journeys.<\/p>\n<p>Working with Professor G\u00e1bor Tim\u00e1r, head of the Department of Geophysics and Space Sciences, Czir\u00e1ki calculated the parameters used in the Earth\u2019s GPS system for the moon using the method of mathematician Fibonacci, who lived 800 years ago. Their findings have been published in the journal Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as humanity prepares to return to the moon after half a century, the focus is on possible methods of lunar navigation. It seems likely that the modern successors to the lunar vehicles of the Apollo missions will now be assisted by some form of satellite navigation, similar to the GPS system on Earth. In the case of Earth, these systems do not take into account the actual shape of our planet, the geoid, not even the surface defined by sea level, but a rotating ellipsoid that best fits the geoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamilla Czir\u00e1ki, a geophysics student at the Faculty of Science of E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University (ELTE), has taken a new approach to researching the navigation systems that can be used on the surface of the moon to plan future journeys. Working with Professor G\u00e1bor Tim\u00e1r, head of the Department of Geophysics and Space Sciences, Czir\u00e1ki calculated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}