Radio Saturn Wobbles and Sirens

From NASA's JPL and the Cassini Mission. Cassini has been in orbit around Saturn for more than six years. And new data tells scientists that the sixth planet from the sun is weirder than we've even imagined. Ever since we arrived, Cassini has been measuring radio waves called 'Saturn kilometric radiation.'

Cassini's radio and plasma wave instrument recently determined that the variation in radio waves is different in the northern and southern hemispheres of Saturn. And the northern and southern rotational variations also appear to change with the Saturnian seasons.

The radio wave patterns are controlled by the rotation of the planet. So, to Cassini, Saturn's radio waves sound a bit like bursts of a spinning air raid siren. We can't normally hear these radio wave patterns. But Cassini scientists have translated the patterns into the human audio range.

In this video you actually hear the radio wave patterns coming from the two hemispheres swap rates over the course of several years. The crossover happened a few months after spring began in the northern hemisphere.

Scientists don't think the radio wave patterns indicate hemispheres actually rotating at different rates.
It has more to do with variations in high-altitude winds.
A recently result from the Hubble Space Telescope also gives us clues. Scientists found that the northern and southern auroras wobbled back and forth in a pattern matching the radio wave variations.

The Cassini magnetometer also found that Saturn's magnetic field over the north and south poles wobbled in a similar pattern. These signals are connected because they're all affected by the behavior of the magnetic bubble around Saturn and the sun's influence on the whole Saturnian system.

For those of us watching Saturn, these findings all help explain the complicated dance between the sun and Saturn's magnetic bubble, something normally invisible to the human eye and imperceptible to the human ear.

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[culwin]

Sorry lady, but you're no Dick Rodstein!

[SpaceRip]

@culwin True, and Dick is returning today to begin setting the record straight on Saturn!

[jorrogboe]

saturns my fav planet...well...after Earth...

[SpaceRip]

@jorrogboe Stay tuned... we'll have a longer Saturn video next week.

[SuperRandomperson10]

@jorrogboe it not my fav planet my fav planet is far at the eagh of the salor system

[mamolian]

Great video guys keep it up! Being able to actually listen to saturn.. mindblowing :3

[sdrawkcabgnipytmi]

@superseung

Yea, it can be pretty hard to know if someone is joking over text comments.

[superseung]

@sdrawkcabgnipytmi I was just poking fun at the narrator.

[Maplemacsquare]

so will we ever live on Saturn? or is Saturn just a big gas planet , unless it was just a guess

[Javis586]

@KDALove Hopefully one day we will have technology that can send signals from here to a different galaxy within minutes.

[jqs1943]

Atoms have an average diameter of 3 billionths of 1 inch or 90 billionths of 1 mm. A cycle of evolution can last a fraction of a second, a second, or slightly over one second for an energy weave to complete the mass of weave of atoms.What lattice is weaved,depends upon the values of the frequencies that interrelate in the weave.The EMER's field of the atoms produce distinctive inaudible intermediate frequency waves whose average represents the harmonics for that world or the kilometric radiation

[jqs1943]

Satun's kilometric radiation is reminescent of all the planet's resonant harmonics that some day will be used as interstellr travel beacons. Each and every world has its own distinctive harmonics produced as an average of all the frequencies that makes up the chemistry of each and every world. Intrinsic lattices of matter are weaves of families of frequencies that interrelate at an specifric point from several vectors at tremendously high speeds. Atoms are formed within a cycle of evolution.

[KDALove]

@Javis586 I don't think so. Even if we received a signal from them, chances are the signal is going to be millions of years old. Who knows. By the time we receive the signal they probably wiped each other out from war.