JAKARTA – Circulating an upload containing a narrative with a statement that an astronaut from the United States became 28 seconds younger than his twin who lives on earth after living on NASA’s International Space Station (ISS) for 2 years.
However, after being traced, astronaut Scott Kelly was only in space for 1 year, namely March 27, 2015 to March 1, 2016. The project is part of the NASA Twins Study or Research Twins by NASA.
Furthermore, the ISS is traveling at 17,500 miles/hour, or 28,160 km/h, which is much slower than the relativity of light. This causes the difference in the time difference experienced by Scott and his twin Mark is very small, which is only 0.005 seconds, not 28 seconds.
So it can be concluded that the narration uploaded by the Facebook account with the username Muhammad Zayn Ibrahim can be categorized as False Context. In fact, astronaut Scott Kelly has only been in space for 1 year. In addition, the difference in the time difference during the year on the ISS is only 0.005 seconds, not 28 seconds.
Reference:
https://s.id/HPaUC
https://www.space.com/33411-astronaut-scott-kelly-relativity-twin-brother-ages.html
https://theconversation.com/does-a-year-in-space-make-you-older-or-younger-111812
News Source: RRI.
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