[franca]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel around the solar system? Often we see fantastic pictures from exploratory craft but they only give part of the picture. This site adds another dimension by allowing you to listen to space.

You can hear the sounds made by Jupiter's magnetosphere. It almost sounds like seagulls talking over a crashing ocean. You can also hear what it sounds like when infrared rays escape from a black hole.

If you think it's loud on earth, you should hear what cosmic debris sounds like. Cosmic debris is the noise in the air made from television, radio and cell phone waves. It’s neat to hear.

http://www.spacesounds.com/

 

[Izme]

Very Cool Franca :up:

Thanks

 

[franca]

Your welcome.

 

[hewee]

cool

 

[sponsor]

C'est wonderfull. Merci Franca.:up:

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Now that's cool, should'a seen our min-pin when I was playing the whale sounds!

 

[LANMaster]

Cool!

 

[deuce]

Just a note on this subject, if anyone is interested...

Sound waves cannot actually travel at all through the near-vacuum of space. They need a medium such as the Earth's atmosphere because sound waves are formed by the vibration of particles of matter. There is very little matter in space, and the partiticles are too far apart to interact. What you are listening to on that site are plasma and readio waves that are converted into sounds, and recorded. Radio waves move through space because they are part of the light continuum and are on one side of the visible light scale, and plasma waves course through the thin, electrically charged gas pervading the near-vacuum of outer space.

So unlike in Star Trek, you can't actually hear a space ship explode.



Also, black holes are theoretical. Therefore, there isn't anything that can be converted into "sounds of a black hole," so I'm not sure how they have a sound for it on that site.

 

[Tuppence2]

Hello,

Thanks for that, Frank.

Very interesting - some of the sounds are very unexpected.

Bye,
Penny.

 

[Tuppence2]

Hello Deuce,

Thanks for your explanation. I suppose talking about the "noises" as sounds is a way of putting them in terms that we can understand, if you hear what I'm saying!

Bye,
Penny.

 

[sponsor]

hey deuce, your idea also sounds good.