Io - sounds from space

In 1979, the two Voyager probes approached the Jovian system.

The probes are carrying different detectors : magnetometers, plasma detectors, low-energy charged particles detectors, cosmic rays detectors, radiowaves receivers.

Recordings were made.

Interractions of the solar wind with planet's magnetosphere, magnetosphere itself, electromagnetic fields, charged particles emissions, charged particle interactions of the planet, its moons, and the solar wind.

All this electromagnetic phenomenons can be transformed into electric signals, which can in turn be amplified and used to excite the membrane of a loud speaker ; thus making audible to the human ear the rustling of the cosmos.


All these sounds were recorded while the Voyager probes were passing near Io, and assembled without manipulation.

Extract from "Symphonies of the Planets vol.8 - Sphere of Io", Nasa Voyager Recordings, Brain/Mind Research, 1990.

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(moon)
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/io.htm

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[augustbuckne717]

This video went viral on Abu Dhabi

[TheKimTwister]

422 sounds like saturn rockets going off

[TheKimTwister]

IS THIS REALLLY REAL

[TheAbirato]

TOOL alike

[TheKainMan]

@BeachDude0092 Io is slightly bigger than our Moon, but it has one of the highest volcanic activities in our solar system.

[piper102206]

Sounds alot like Uranus's moon, miranda

[DeanVflying]

Sounds like TIE Fighters whizzing around one of Jupiters moons haha

[BeachDude0092]

@SpiriToVsky Yeah dude! its sounds like a bird screaming! 0o

[BeachDude0092]

Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't Io alot like earth in general?