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← ScienceWhich outcome relating to satellite navigation occurs because gravitational potential alters near Earth?
A)Atomic clock frequency shifts slightly✓
B)Orbital decay accelerates significantly over time
C)Doppler shift effects get amplified
D)Signal latency increases during solar flares
💡 Explanation
Gravitational time dilation, a consequence of Einstein's equivalence principle, causes atomic clocks at different gravitational potentials to tick at different rates; therefore, satellite clocks tick faster because the effect introduces time discrepancies rather than those other errors.
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