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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For Jupiter the video people usually post isn’t the actual sound of the planet’s atmosphere but rather the radio frequencies its magnetic field emits. Send that waveform through a normal home radio and it produces an incoherent wailing, which you’d expect from a signal that’s not actually encoding anything.

For Venus we actually have landed things on the surface. They don’t last long thanks to the furnace-like conditions, but they do record vibrations from the wind so we have actual sound of Venus’ surface.