NASA’s Probe Releases Sound Bite Where You Can ‘Listen’ To Jupiter’s Moon
Image via NASA/JPL
Ever imagined how Jupiter would sound? Now, thanks NASA’s Juno spacecraft, you can “listen” to the planet’s moon.
According to Phys.org, Juno’s Principal Investigator Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio recorded a 50-second audio clip of the probe flying past the moon—named Ganymede—in June earlier this year.
“This soundtrack is just wild enough to make you feel as if you were riding along as Juno sails past Ganymede for the first time in more than two decades,” Bolton told the site.
“If you listen closely, you can hear the abrupt change to higher frequencies around the midpoint of the recording, which represents entry into a different region in Ganymede’s magnetosphere,” he added.
As reported by Interesting Engineering, the Juno probe consists of a Waves instrument, which allows scientists to collect electric and magnetic radio signals from the planet’s magnetosphere. Then, the data is translated into an audible audio track that we can all tune into.
Most of the clip sounds similar to that of a windy day outside, with occasional beeps from the spacecraft. Watch the video below to have a listen for yourself and see if your ears catch anything else.
[via Interesting Engineering, cover image via NASA/JPL]
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