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Music of Saturn
That’s a real photo of Saturn there. The Cassini spacecraft got this shot by putting Saturn between it and the sun. Gorgeous. Now for the first time, that same Cassini spacecraft has recorded and returned music from the homeland of Sun Ra. As the Wired blog notes:
NASA recently published several audio recordings collected during the Cassini-Huygens space probe’s exploration of the Saturnian system, and it couldn’t sound more like a theremin-laden soundtrack to a 2001: A Space Odyssey… Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions that are generated along with the auroras of the planet’s poles — similar to Earth’s northern and southern lights.
Full story and link to Saturn’s music are here.
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1. Abbey replies at 15th November 2007, 1:22 am :
i have a similar picture from Cassini here somewhere in which you can see earth as a tiny spec in the rings….I’ll see if i can find it …
Hey Steve…thanks for ‘rolling me in your blog’….appreciated but its ‘Random Thoughts of Life’ …i’ve recently discarded the ‘Gale’ bit …are you into astronomy? Theres a whole world of photography that i havent tried…
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