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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Because those videos are clickbait pseudoscience. You can take absolutely any signal and map it to any of the properties of soundwaves (frequency, amplitude, and so on) and create a sound.

I could take the letters of this post and map them to frequency values and create a melody. It wouldn’t really be “The sound of this post” as much as it’d be “the random way I arbitrarily mapped letters to sounds”.

In the case of [“planet sounds”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQL53eQ0cNA) that’s magnetic fields or other types of radiation being mapped to frequencies, amplitudes, or outright to pre-defined tones.