Jun 202013
 

Navigating the Solar System Using Pulsars as GPS

GPS works by having orbiting atomic clocks beaming out the current time. GPS receivers pick up several signals, do some mathematical trickery, and determine their geographical location by correlating the relative differences and doing some triangulating. The general principle  would seem to work on a vastly larger scale by using the surprisingly precise signals from pulsars.

 Posted by at 10:42 pm