A microphone would detect sound transmitted through the ground, but not from above ground because there is no air on the moon.
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John D say: >Since there is no sound on the moon.
You answered your own question.
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quantumclaustrophobe say: Not actual sound, but I would bet debris - sand, dust, small rocks - would be hitting it on occasion.... it would 'hear' those impacts, would be my guest, but the loudest foghorn in the world could be 2 inches away, and you wouldn't hear it...
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rick say: if there is no sound on the moon, as you state in the first sentence, how could the liftoff be loud, as you state in the 2nd?????????????????????????????????????...
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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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Link H say: Sound can be carried though many mediums, including rock. The microphone might have been able to pick up vibrations from the lift-off that were transmitted through the ground, recording them like a seismophone, as sound.
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Gary B say: no.
There is no air on the moon, and SOUND cannot be transmitted where the is NO air.
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Acetek say: No. There is not atmosphere on the moon to transmit sound waves
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Dixon say: Ordinarily on the moon there is no atmosphere, therefore there is no sound above the surface. There is nothing to transmit pressure waves. However, the exhaust gasses themselves would potentially provide a medium for the sound of the launch but I've no idea how they get distributed. Also they would bash into the surface of the moon and transmit "sound" through the moon itself. So if the microphone was acoustically coupled to the surface (like on a stand) then it would pick up those vibrations.
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