lifting off from the lunar surface on August 2, 1971,
Since there is no sound on the moon. But the liftoff would be really loud so maybe a microphone would pick up the sound.
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Nyx say: Whatever gases from the launch that reach the microphone might be picked up, but that's still uncertain that the gases would get that far. You would need high gain, and sensitivity, over high quality.
As quantum says, you would be more likely to pick up the dust and small rocks pinging against the transducer elements.
It would make for an interesting experiment though. Set up a large vacuum chamber, with such a microphone at one end, and a gas nozzle at the other with a layer of dust at the bottom. Just to see what would happen.
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Alpha Beta say: No, the only sounds that could be recorded would be dust particles hitting the microphone.
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Roger K say: There is no atmosphere on the moon, so there is nothing to convey the sound from one place to another.
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spot a say: Nope, as there is no air. The gas from the ascent stage was directed downwards and would splat on the moon's surface then basically go sideways. It would not shake the moon like an earthquake. The Apollo astronauts would hear the sound of the rocket transmitted through the metal of their ascent stage to the air if they have repressurized the capsule
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Allan say: While there is no air to conduct sound The Microphone would "pick up" mechanically conducted vibrations From the decent stage through the ground and from the ground through the microphone stand up to the microphone...
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Brigalow Bloke say: Such a microphone might have detected a puff of gas from the rocket passing by. Not sound. Why is it so hard to understand that if sound is carried by gas, and there is no gas, there can be no sound?
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