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Saturn Hailstorm

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wear-your-hard-hat dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Amazing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Too bad you're not thirty years younger then you could experience the first man on Mars, the heated probe mission into Europa, Pluto Express and the launch of Deep Space 2 which reaches Alpha Centauri in 2043 using an ion engine.

  2. Re:No microphone by Naito · · Score: 2, Insightful

    actually, it's more like counting lighting bolts by listening to crackles on AM radio.