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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:Sound in Space? by dorlthed · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Certainly not, but you can hear the sound of the particles hitting the craft as it resonates through the metal (or whatever) that makes up the craft.

    If you were trying to listen to it with an open-air microphone, though, well that obviously wouldn't make any sense.