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Explain why a sound wave can't travel from a satellite to earth?
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∙ 9y ago
In space there is no air. Sound waves need a medium for transportation. Therefore we cannot hear any sound in a vacuum. In films they play us music from the outer space. But that is not possible in reality.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agoThe pressure waves that make up sound require a medium such as air to travel through. Satellites are in space, in a vacuum. There is no air to propagate sound waves. They do transmit radio waves, which can be converted into sound waves at the receiving station though.
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∙ 9y agoA sound wave can not travel from a satellite to earth because there is not an atmosphere in space. The sound wave has no way off traveling through the air because there isn't any air.
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∙ 15y agoSound can only travel through air. Since the satellite is in orbit above the atmosphere, there is no air to transmit the sound in the vacuum of that space.
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∙ 14y agoThere is no air for it to travel on.
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A sound wave can not travel from a satellite to earth because there is not an atmosphere in space. The sound wave has no way off traveling through the air because there isn't any air.
Why can't a sound wave travel from a satellite to earth?
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How can the satellite reached sound waves which are produced on the earth?
Sound waves produced on the Earth cannot reach an orbiting satellite. Sound needs a material substance to travel through. But in order to remain in orbit, a satellite must scrupulously avoid passing through any material substance, lest it lose kinetic energy to friction, and plummet to Earth in a fiery display of utter finality.
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in waves, thus sound waves :)
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there is no air in a vaccum. and sound needs air for the sound waves to travel through.
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no. sound is sound so how on earth can it be faster than itself? answer that!
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In order for sound to travel, there has to be something with molecules for it t travel through. On Earth, sound travels by vibrating air molecules, there are no molecules in space, nothing to vibrate
