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How many seconds will it take to send a radio signal to Pluto from earth?
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∙ 13y ago
there is no sound on the moon or in space, there is no air to vibrate and make sound
But...
Assuming sound could travel from the earth to the moon,
the moon is 3.9x10^8 meters from earth.
Sound travels at 340 meters/second. (or 3.4x10^2)
(3.9x10^8)/(3.4x10^2) = 1.47x10^6 seconds.
In other words, If sound could travel through the vacuum of space, It would take 1,470,000 seconds to travel from the moon to the earth.
This might seem like too much at first, but remember that sound moves like a slug compared to light. Anybody who has watched a fireworks show from across a lake or bay will know firsthand that you can see the light from the firework a fraction of a second before hearing the explosion. This is over a relatively tiny distance. (a few miles), as compared to the vast distance between our planet and moon.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 14y agoA radio signal takes less than one and one half seconds to reach the moon. The moon orbits an average distance of 384,400 kilometers from Earth and radio waves travel through space at 299,800 kilometers per second.
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∙ 14y agoThe distance that light travels in a fixed amount of time is a common way to measure astronomical distances. Thus one has lightseconds, lightminutes, and lightyears.
If you measure the distance from the earth to the moon in terms of the speed of light, it is approximately 1.28 light seconds away.
Thus, it will take about 1.28 seconds for communication from the earth to reach the moon, or communications from the moon to reach earth. A "round trip" communication would take double that, or about 2.56 seconds.
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∙ 13y agoIf sound could continue all the way to the moon at the same speed that it typically
has at sea level on earth, it would arrive there after a journey of roughly 13 days.
(384,400 km, 343 m/s)
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∙ 13y agoDepends entirely on the distance between the Earth and Pluto and their respective orbits.
Pluto can be anything from 30 to 50 AU from the Sun.
So at the closest: 29 AU or 241.185854 light minutes or 14,471.1512 light seconds
At the furthest, 51 Astronomical Units = 424.154433 light minutes or = 25,449.266 light seconds
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∙ 15y agoIt takes a radio signal about 1.3 second to reach the Moon.
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∙ 14y agoSound only travels through matter, not through empty space. So sound won't reach the moon, it will stop where the Earth's atmosphere ends.
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∙ 14y agoSound can not travel through a vacuum, so sound generated on Earth would never reach the Moon.
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∙ 12y agoRadio waves take 2 seconds to travel 600,000 kilometers through vacuum.
The moon, though, is only about 385,000 kilometers from Earth.
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How do you work out how long radio waves take to get from Earth to Pluto?
Radio waves travel at essentially the speed of light in space, and that is a known value. So if you know the exact distance between Earth and Pluto, you can divide the distance by the speed to see how long a radio signal from Earth will take to reach there. Of course, during the year the time will vary, because the distance will vary.Average distance of Pluto from the Sun: 5.874 billion kilometersAverage distance of Earth from the Sun: 149.6 million kilometersDistance from Earth to Pluto ~ 5.724 billion kilometersSpeed of radio signal (light): 299792.456 kilometers per secondDividing: 5.724 x 109 / 2.998 x 105 = 1.91 x 104 seconds = 5.3 hours(and of course, to send it and receive a reply would take twice that time)---Absolute closest distance (4.285 billion km) -- 4.0 hoursAbsolute farthest distance (7.463 billion km) -- 6.9 hours
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How long does it take radio signals to travel from the sun to Pluto?
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How long would it take to send a radio signal from Earth to a spacecraft that's 900 million meters away?
6 minutes
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A space probe on the surface of mars sends a radio signal back to the earth, a distance of (9.03*10^7 km). Radio waves travel at the speed of light (3.00*10^8 m/s). How many seconds does it take for the signal to reach the earth?
0.301 seconds
How do you work out how long radio waves take to get from Earth to Pluto?
Radio waves travel at essentially the speed of light in space, and that is a known value. So if you know the exact distance between Earth and Pluto, you can divide the distance by the speed to see how long a radio signal from Earth will take to reach there. Of course, during the year the time will vary, because the distance will vary.Average distance of Pluto from the Sun: 5.874 billion kilometersAverage distance of Earth from the Sun: 149.6 million kilometersDistance from Earth to Pluto ~ 5.724 billion kilometersSpeed of radio signal (light): 299792.456 kilometers per secondDividing: 5.724 x 109 / 2.998 x 105 = 1.91 x 104 seconds = 5.3 hours(and of course, to send it and receive a reply would take twice that time)---Absolute closest distance (4.285 billion km) -- 4.0 hoursAbsolute farthest distance (7.463 billion km) -- 6.9 hours
How long does it take the reflected ray of light from the full moon to get to earths surface?
1.28 seconds at the moon's average distance from earth ... same as for a radio signal.
If a spaceship is traveling at 16.26km per sec and takes 354200000 seconds or 11.23 years to reach Pluto and you send a radio signal to the space shuttle how long will it take you to get a response?
It all depends on where your spaceship was in relationship to the space shuttle. Your velocity does not matter, nor does the time it takes to get to Pluto, because you did not say where you were on that trip to Pluto. The response time will be twice the distance between your two spacecraft divided by the speed of light. Since Pluto is about 4.4 billion kilometers from the Sun, and the Earth is about 150 million kilometers from the Sun, one possible distance between the Earth and Pluto is 4.25 billion kilometers apart, when they are aligned with each other. At the speed of light, which is about 3 x 108 meters per second, a signal from one to the other would take about 14,000 seconds, or about 1.6 days to go one way. The round trip time would then be about 3.2 days.
Can you bounce on Pluto?
You can, but there is no guarantee that the signal would bounce directly back to earth. Plus, you would need extremely actuate equipment. I have done Moon Bounce, with a handheld radio and yagi antenna. Pluto would be very difficult. I will try this using a telescope as a spotting scope and by crossing my fingers. I'll start with Mars, and save Pluto for the Professionals.
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What region of atmosphere helps radio broadcasters?
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What is the time it takes for a signal to travel?
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How long does it take a radio signal to reach Saturn from earth?
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Why are radio stations enhanced when you touch a antenna?
Because you 'earth' it and the signal travels through you.
If a spacecraft is approaching the earth relative to the radio signals it send out the signal received on the earth have?
Shorter wavelength, higher frequency.
