eli5 If you can hear anything in space how are we able to get videos of what Venus or Jupiter sound like?

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eli5 If you can hear anything in space how are we able to get videos of what Venus or Jupiter sound like?

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Most of the time we aren’t. Not really. Those videos are most often taking some other form of radiation emitted by the planet and trying to “translate” it into audio. It often sounds spooky and gets the imagination going but it’s not really honest to say it’s what the planet “sounds” like