Question

How would you expect your inner ear to behave in zero gravity?

Answer 1

Answer:

Your inner ear works roughly like an accelerometer in a smartphone—it tells your body when you are moving or stopped, and when you are standing on your head or lying on your side. But in space, that little mechanism goes awry, which often gives astronauts motion sickness for a day or so after entering microgravity.

Answer 2

Your inner ear works roughly like an accelerometer in a smartphone—it tells your body when you are moving or stopped, and when you are standing on your head or lying on your side.

But in space, that little mechanism goes awry, which often gives astronauts motion sickness for a day or so after entering microgravity.