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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Reading Task (Week 3)

Sound in Space

List 3 interesting facts that you learned from the article:
1. There is no air in space
2. Vibration can travel through solid things as well as air
3. Space is not a noisy place

Why can’t we hear sound in space?
Because there is nothing for vibrations to travel through




How did NASA record the sounds of interstellar space?
The Data were stored on an old-fashioned tape recorder.



What does deep space sound like?
It is like dawn chorus of birds singing in spring from super bass.





What does the plasma wave detector detect? How do they turn this into sound?
It sense waves of electrons. Play data through a loudspeaker and listen!

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