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November 10, 2004
Songs of Saturn
The New Scientist is reporting that "Saturn's magnificent ring system - a huge disc resembling an old gramophone record", emits melodic tones lasting 1-3 seconds and, "The evidence suggests that each tone is produced by the impact of a meteoroid on the icy chunks that make up the rings."
W o w.
You can see some of the photos and data gathered by the Cassini mission, whose plasma/radio gear picked up the frequencies. here.
I can't wait to hear some of these frequencies. I'm thinking of an Ash International release, compiled by Andrew Lagowski (SETI), in conjunction with the scientist - Don Gurnett - who discovered the radio waves, and was “completely astonished" when he heard the musical notes."
Check Out some of Don's favorite sounds from space.
Posted by jmarston at November 10, 2004 10:27 AM
Comments
Reminds me of Alan Lamb's work on telephone wires...even though his process was rather earthly...
http://www.awrc.com/review/l/primal_image.html
there is a remix now with Bernhard Gunter and others:
http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/page/alamb.html
all earth-bound sources, but something about them seems so other-worldly--maybe we're aliens too?
Posted by: Erik at November 11, 2004 12:27 PM