Lockdown Task 9: Deep Space Network Supercone

 Hello Bloggers today Kea had another lockdown task. This task requires a lot of research and crafting. Have you ever heard of a supercone before? A supercone is a object most astronauts use to hear if there is any outer life. Today´s task was to make a D.I.Y Supercone. My supercone was quite easy to make. I have uploaded the slides and article if you want to have a go. The purpose of this is to put it in your ear and hear the different sounds the world around you makes. 

Here is a photo of my supercone:

It was fun to take it outside and hear different noises from what our ears hear. But other than that do you know how our ears hear? Its quite a fascinating explaination. Your ears hear all the sounds that are around you. Those sounds turn into vibrations which do inside you ear. Once inside your ear the go to the eardrum which passes them to the 3 bones near your eardrum. Those bones push the vibrations into your choclea which pushes them into the brain. The brains job is to translate the sounds to you. This process happens very quickly. Here is the article link and the slides:

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sound-cone/en/ - Article link.

 

Thank you for reading my blog post. I hope you enjoyed the cycle of your ears as well. My challenge for you is to leave a comment if you have another fun fact about sound waves.