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Saturn Hailstorm
crmartin writes "NASA has released a web story about the sounds recorded aboard the Cassini spacecraft as it pased through the Rings. The story includes a Quicktime file of the hailstorm-like sounds of Ring particles impacting."
In space, nobody can hear you scream!
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sounds like fun
I doubt it will make the number #1 hitlists. Pictures and video are nice, sure, and Nasa is doing amazing things. But "the sound of space"? I'd rather listen to ABBA.
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Last month, some rain water seeped into the cable outlet box outside and for 2 days, all I could hear on my TV was the exact same sound as Saturn Hailstorm (except that the video didn't show the spacecraft travelling around saturn).
I think aliens from Saturn were trying to use me to send a message.... *smack on the head* if only I had known then..
...there is going to be one wicked-ass scratch & dent sale on astronomical probes, at Crazy Vaklav's on Saturn.
There's a Starman, waiting in the sky / He'd like to come and meet us, but he hasn't got the time.
if you were standing next to it you couldn't hear anything.
I imagine that listening for particles hitting the exterior of the probe would be the last thing on your mind as your lungs explode and your blood starts to boil and your eyes start popping out of your skull like in that Schwartzenager movie.
How about those bright "spots" on Titan the size of Arizona. Looks like a city to me. They say it's clouds but they don't look like the other clouds around it. Conspiracy, I say.
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Space dust? Really? Here is what I heard.
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I would have to disagree, however. To the average non-PHD, this dust sounds like nothing more than some static mixed with clinking noises. To me it sounds like SPACE DUST!
Yeah, ok, that explains the static and the clinking noises, but what was that *THUMP*THWACK* sound at the end?
Somebody told me it was Cassini running into a big black monolith full of stars thing.
What's that all about?
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was that just amazing, I just listened to it and it sounded ... so ... I can't find the word ... the wow factor ... it's like these cigarete smoke sized particles ionized by hitting against my brain directly.
I need another puff of that magic dust
You can't handle the truth.
Excuse my ignorance, but I thought there was no sound in space?
That's just because people always wear spacesuits that block the sound. This is an unmanned probe, so the sound can come through without a problem. You'd hear the same thing if you took off your helmet while you were out there.
You see this all the time in movies: the cameras are usually outside the suits, so they can hear the whoosh of the spaceships and the zapping sounds of the lasers.
...sort of like Space Quest II!
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Billions and billions of meters!
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