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Cassini Captures Audio of Storm On Saturn

Posted by Unknown on from the energy-beings-can-scream-in-space dept.

Sooner Boomer writes "The Cassini space probe has been monitoring an enormous storm on Saturn since it was detected last December. The storm, dubbed 'The Great White Spot', now 500 times larger than any previously seen by Cassini at Saturn, is 8 times the surface area of Earth. Observers on Earth have been able to see a bright white 'smudge' in the northern half of the planet." NASA released a recording of the electrical noise generated by the lightning.

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  1. Not really audio by TrisexualPuppy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Cassini didn't capture audio of the storm. It captured essentially electrical noise which would be like turning an AM radio on during a thunder storm. The summary and webpage are a little misleading in this regard--it's not as though a microphone on a balloon was dropped into the atmosphere.