Nasa creates spooky playlist of sounds from space for Halloween
Radio signals have been converted into sound waves and they sound amazing.
Nasa has created a playlist of spooky sounds from space by transforming radio emissions into sound waves.
They include the roar of Jupiter captured by the Juno spacecraft and sounds from Saturn recorded via the Cassini spacecraft, which ended its mission early this year by tumbling into the planet’s atmosphere.
The results have been shared on the space agency’s SoundCloud account as it gets into the Halloween spirit.
The 22 tracks include sounds fashioned out of data from Saturn and Jupiter plus Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede.
In some cases, radio signals are translated into sound to better understand the signals in a move called data sonification.
Juno and the ‘roar’ of Jupiter
Sounds of Saturn
Sounds of a comet encounter
Whistler Waves
Last week, former Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly described the “distinct smell” of space during a Twitter Q&A.
He likened the aroma to “burning metal or welding, or maybe a sparkler you might use on a holiday”.
