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beyond
the rocky inner worlds and the strange
asteroid belt
is jupiter the fifth planet from the sun
everything about jupiter is huge it is
so big that more than 1
300 planet earths could fit inside of it
and is two and a half times more massive
than all of the other planets in the
solar system
combined we all know what the colossal
gas giant looks like
with its majestic swirling clouds its
famous spinning storm the great red spot
and its large mysterious moons orbiting
around it
but have you ever wondered what jupiter
sounds like back in 2016
nasa's juno spacecraft was well on its
way to the giant
gas planet when its onboard instruments
detected
and recorded the roar of jupiter
this explosive noise is actually the
sound of juno entering into jupiter's
magnetic field which protects the planet
from solar wind
when supersonic solar wind is suddenly
slowed down and heated up as it enters
into the gas giant's magnetosphere
it produces a bow shock and this is what
juno detected as it crossed over into
this region
nasa then translated juno's measurements
into this incredible audio file that
represents the power of jupiter's
immense magnetic field
the gas giant's magnetosphere is
considered one of the largest structures
in the solar system
extending out to nearly 3 million miles
wide
it is almost 15 times wider than the sun
and 20 thousand times stronger than
earth's magnetic fields
but it's not just jupiter's powerful
magnetosphere that we can listen to
juno also collected plasma wave signals
from the gas giant during a close flyby
back in 2017
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this eerie recording was picked up by
the juno spacecraft using data collected
from jupiter's
upper atmosphere the results show that
plasma is denser in the lower parts of
jupiter's ionosphere and that's
the frequencies grow higher as the
plasma becomes denser
the original data in this recording was
a much higher frequency than humans can
perceive
but nasa slowed the data down by a
factor of 60 causing the sound to shift
into an
audible frequency that we can hear so
it's pretty incredible to think that we
can listen to the colossal planet using
brilliant spacecrafts like
juno that have travelled the millions of
miles it takes to get to
and study this celestial wonder that we
call
jupiter
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