An SI unit of time equal to 1,000 seconds, which translates to 16 minutes and 40 seconds. While minutes and hours are the customary ways to track time, kiloseconds are sometimes used in scientific literature, astronomy, and long-duration physics experiments to keep time calculations strictly in base SI units.
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The exposure time for the deep space image was set to 3.6 kiloseconds to gather enough light.
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