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They travel at the same speed as the rest of the electromagnet spectrum. At 186,000 mile or 300,000 km per second.
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Why can radio waves travel through space but sound waves can not?
Radio waves travel through empty space because they are electromagnetic waves, whereas sound is a wave that must travel through air.
How spaceships send messages back to earth through the vacuum of space?
Space craft send messages electronically via radio waves. And these actually move through a vacuum better then through the atmosphere.
Why radio waves can travel through space but sound waves cannot?
radio astronomy
Why can radio waves can travel through space but sound waves cannot?
radio astronomy
Why can't we communicate in outer space?
We can if we use radio. Without it, sound waves can't travel through space because there is no air for it to travel through.
Did Beethoven's music go into space?
Anything transmitted by radio will travel through space forever.
Do radio waves need a medium to travel through?
Radiation doesnt need a medium because it travels through space
What are 3 things that travel in waves even through space?
Radio, light, and sound.
Why do astronauts use radio waves instead of sound waves to communicate in space?
sound needs something to travel through and space has no air for it to travel
How could Neil Armstrong talk to Nixon through the vacuum of space?
The communication was done using radio signals which can be transmitted in a vacuum. Radio waves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum, as are light waves, x-rays and microwaves. Just as light from far distance stars travel through empty space and reach your eyes, so can radio waves travel through space to a radio receiver.
A wave that can travel through empty space is?
You could have Gamma, ultra violate, infrared and radio
How many seconds does it take a radio signal to travel one parsec through space?
102,900,000
