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posted by cmn32480 on Friday October 14 2016, @10:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the is-it-V-Ger? dept.

When a NASA spacecraft made its first full orbit around Jupiter, a University of Iowa instrument on board recorded haunting sounds befitting the Halloween season.

The UI instrument was listening to Jupiter's auroras, light shows similar to the northern and southern lights on Earth but on a vastly larger scale. The radio emissions cast by Jupiter's auroras were recorded by the UI instrument, called Waves, as the Juno spacecraft traveled about 2,600 miles above Jupiter's swirling clouds. Those emission recordings were then converted into sound files by UI engineers.

The emissions from Jupiter were discovered in the 1950s but had never been analyzed from such a close vantage point, according to NASA.

"Jupiter is talking to us in a way only gas-giant worlds can," says Bill Kurth, research scientist at the UI and co-investigator for Waves. "Waves detected the signature emissions of the energetic particles that generate the massive auroras that encircle Jupiter's north pole. These emissions are the strongest in the solar system. Now we are going to try to figure out where the electrons that are generating them come from."

You can hear the audio result here. Sounds like an alien monster from the Star Trek, the Original Series.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday October 15 2016, @01:47AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday October 15 2016, @01:47AM (#414494) Journal

    Yeah, I have to agree with the haters this time. Same deal with the news of how Jupiter's auroras "sound" a few weeks ago when Juno made its first flyby.

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