Jupiter sounds (so strange!) NASA-Voyager recording

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From an original CD: JUPITER NASA-VOYAGER SPACE SOUNDS (1990) BRAIN/MIND Research
Fascinating recording of Jupiter sounds (electromagnetic "voices") by NASA-Voyager. The complex interactions of charged electromagnetic particles from the solar wind , planetary magnetosphere etc. create vibration "soundscapes". It sounds very interesting, even scary.
Jupiter is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium. The entire planet is made of gas, with no solid surface under the atmosphere. The pressures and temperatures deep in Jupiter are so high that gases form a gradual transition into liquids which are gradually compressed into a metallic "plasma" in which the molecules have been stripped of their outer electrons. The winds of Jupiter are a thousand metres per second relative to the rotating interior. Jupiter's magnetic field is four thousand times stronger than Earth's, and is tipped by 11° degrees of axis spin. This causes the magnetic field to wobble, which has a profound effect on trapped electronically charged particles. This plasma of charged particles is accelerated beyond the magnetosphere of Jupiter to speeds of tens of thousands of kilometres per second. It is these magnetic particle vibrations which generate some of the sound you hear on this recording.
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Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: June 5, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Author: hryzunik

Length: 00:09:59
Rating: 4.71
Views: 963155

Tags: jupiter sound nasa voyager recordings space universe sounds electromagnetic vibrations fascinating planet probe

Video Comments:
nemacyst77 (September 6, 2008 at 2:10 am)
Dont be silly guys. this is clearly a composed track to sound "eerie" it is not really sounds from jupiter. If we could pick up and record sounds like this from planets then there would be hundreds of them on youtube from earths orbit... which there isn't. I wish people would stop thinking that it must be true because it is on Youtube. bah. kids today are gullible
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rayspoono (September 5, 2008 at 9:02 pm)
im picking up good vibrations lmao
naoko100 (September 5, 2008 at 6:49 pm)
Sound is vibrations of air molecules. That's a proven fact. If space is vacuum, there can't posibly be any sound... Electromagnetic vibrations? Put your head in a mikrowave and you'll probably get the same effect. But the sound is nice, especially the the one that beggins on 1:54. It reminds me of whales... I'll listen to it before going to sleep :D Oh, and sorry about mistakes, I'm not native speaker and english is just a subject at school and I don't have anywhere to check at the moment.
SAMMYJS99 (September 5, 2008 at 7:24 pm)
naoko100,

u are 100% correct - there is no air in space. BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN there is no sound in space. any 1 in NASA can and will tell you there are "sounds" in space.

voyager 1 & 2 can pick up "sounds" that we humans could never pick up.

remember, Jupiter is spinning at a fast pace. that it throws the particles out into space which does "vibrations" through the magnetic field - which creates the sounds you hear in this recording.
mrtrin (September 5, 2008 at 6:41 pm)
So what you're saying is, that in an airless vaccum, sounds(that according to physics shouldn't exist) sound like shitty ambient music?
Popeye317 (September 5, 2008 at 2:54 pm)
ok, thanks for clearing it up :D
PaladinSwordNagrand (September 5, 2008 at 2:33 pm)
probably just the sounds the satellite always makes when its in space LOL
eleventhmonkey (September 5, 2008 at 10:55 am)
Its crap like this that distorts the truth of real science, go look in the mirror and i can scientifically prove your an ass hole!!!
SAMMYJS99 (September 5, 2008 at 7:34 pm)
i guess the real monkey cant see his true self.

11thmonkey,

put a sock in it.