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Does sound travel outside earth's atmosphere in space explain

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On a large scale, no. Sound travels through space by the compression and relaxation of molecules. When you speak to someone on Earth, each inflection of voice compresses local molecules, and relaxes the molecules around the compressed ones. In space, however, the large lack of molecules means that the compression waves can’t be transmitted from the sound to the listener.
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