Sounds of Saturn

on Nov1 2007

No, it’s not a pastiche of a Simon and Garfunkel song. Rather, it’s something I got from KRADICAL at LiveJournal.

The Cassini probe of Saturn has been recording radio emissions from Saturn, which appear to be from auroral activity around the poles. The wonderful folks at the JPL have taken the radio emissions, time-compressed them, and dropped the frequencies to bring them down into human hearing range.

Click on this link to hear it.

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 1st, 2007 at 11:49 am and is filed under Geekery, Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.


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6 excellent Responses

  1. 1 Bob-kat Says:

     

    on Nov1 07

    That sounds like it would be so cool to listen to, but when I tried the link all I got was silence!

    Michele sent me by this time to say hi!

  2. 2 Pearl Says:

     

    on Nov1 07

    wow, that’s funky. Neat idea.

  3. 3 Pearl Says:

     

    on Nov1 07

    And the sound worked ok for me.

  4. 4 BreadBox Says:

     

    on Nov1 07

    That is really cool — thanks for the link! I have saved it so that I can listen to it in a week or so when I get audio working on my laptop (long story, don’t ask!)

    Michele sent me tonight,
    N.

  5. 5 easywriter Says:

     

    on Nov1 07

    Amazing and so eerie. Thanks for this!

  6. 6 samira Says:

     

    on Nov2 07

    ? I just heard a sound that resembles the sound of winds pretty much…!?

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