Friday, May 27, 2005

Sounds of Voyager I

University of Iowa Professor Don Gurnett has some new sounds for us. (Here) These are of Voyager I crossing into the solar wind termination shock. I had a post on that last week. It's here.
Prof. Gurnett has quite a collection of sounds on his site. He was also the guy who brought us the Cassini sounds--WOW! And the Huygens probe too, I believe. The sound of that little probe dropping slowly to the surface; the sound of winds blowing so strong and loud they almost drown the proximity alert, bleeping a series of ever more urgent tones until the craft touched the surface. Amazing.
Nothing to see, just listening to a probe land on an alien world.
Believe it.

Anyway, SpaceDaily has a neat story on Prof. Gurnett and his sound collection. Check it out. It's here.

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