The supposed “recordings” of Jupiter or Saturn’s rings. How is the sound produced? How is it captured? To what extent is it just an audio trick?
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They convert the data they get (I believe it’s light waves) to sound waves, that’s about it. Not a trick – it’s a tool to further understand/process the same data.
It’s called data sonification.
Usually radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation, but also other kinds of data, are translated into sound by the scientists working on projects like Cassini and Voyager.
No, the planets don’t actually make that “sound”, as sound is pressure waves in a medium like air, and there isn’t any.
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