Does sound echo on the moon?

Question

Do sounds/voices echo on the moon/in space? Just curious.

Answer 1

No particles no sound unless you put your ear to the moon and had some1 on the other side with an exceptionally loud speaker connected to th moon U would hear nothing

Answer 2

No air - No sound.  The moon does not have an atmosphere so there is no sound.

If you launched sound into the rocks that make up the moon then there would be return echos from underlying structures just as it is in the Earth.

Answer 3

Nope. there is no atmosphere.

Answer 4

No air no sound no echo.  Ear to the lunar ground and someone hit the surface hard, you might hear it as ther soil wold be a medium. Obviously all other needed things accepted...no helmet...ground hit close by...you wouldnt die as it is an example anyway...

Echo takes place when sound travels a distance. 1100 feet per second so if a solid wall is farther away from you then 1100 feet you might hear an echo as it will take 2 seconds for the sound you make to travel to the wall and return to you. Obviously distances may vary and I am trying to keep it simple.

In radio and laser tests, we do get an echo back from the moon but this is not sound and still no lunar air.

So in short sound does not travel on the moon so no echo can generate.

Answer 5

No, because you need air for sound to travel through. The moon is airless.

Answer 6

Yes, but only within the spaceship, not outside.

Answer 7

There is almost no atmosphere to carry the sound. Our landing and lift off increased its atmosphere by 10,000 times. The heat of the sun excites the molecules until they reach escape velocity.

Answer 8

yes, we need a medium like air for sound to travel. But the space between Earth and moon is not of absolute vacuum and definitely the SOUND FROM THE MOON can travel to Earth! Since the sound energy of your voice also dispersed and lost in its travel, the sound to reach Earth, the moon  needs to get a devastating blow of a megaton nuclear explosion!

No doubt, the SOUND from Earth for a megaton explosion of Nuclear bomb would certainly travel to moon and may get echoed, but who on Earth is ready to experiment it?

Answer 9

No. Space is a vacuum, there is no air, and thus, no medium for sound to travel through, because sound is just compressions of air. You might think since the moon is a, well, moon, it has some air, but it doesn't that is only really on planets. The Moon has no atmosphere and thus no air and no sound. Even so, it would take years to hear an echo.