Listen to the sounds of Saturn and his moon Enceladus in deep space

Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech

A planet and its moon become chatty in deep space.

A new video from NASA shows the complicated interactions between plasma waves moving from Saturn to Enceladus moon and vice versa.

The new video, produced by converting plasma wave data into sound waves, shows that the plasma actually moves along the magnetic field lines, as the energy flowing between the two bodies, says NASA. Saturn, and we know that it is a source of continuous energy, "said global scientist Ali Sulaiman in a statement from NASA.

" Now we find that Saturn responds by throwing signals under Plasma waveform, through the circuit of magnetic field lines that connect it to Enceladus to hundreds of thousands of kilometers. "

The video was created from data collected by the Cassini spacecraft NASA disappeared in September 2017, just before it plunges into the thick atmosphere of Saturn, ending its mission and burning in the process.

The sounds captured in the video are pretty scary, but there is a strange musical element thanks to a sound a little strange and crisp that comes halfway in the video.

That said, if you were to fly between the moon and its planet, this n & # It's not like you hear exactly these sounds in space.

NASA engineers had to do a lot of cleaning to get the recording of a minute and 16 seconds that they released on Monday.

"The researchers converted the recording of plasma waves into a" whooshing "audio file that we can hear – in the same way that a radio translates electromagnetic waves into music," NASA said. in a statement. "In other words, Cassini has detected electromagnetic waves in the audio frequency range – and in the field, we can amplify and play these signals through a speaker.The recording time has been compressed from 16 minutes to 28.5 seconds. "

Enceladus is considered one of the most interesting places in the solar system for a day to hunt for life.

The small moon is thought to have an underground ocean that can be habitable for microbial organisms. Cassini even flew through a plume of water erupted in the space of a crack in the surface of the icy moon.

Someday, perhaps a space agency will send a submarine to the distant planet and its moon to learn more about exactly what is happening in Enceladus, and how Saturn can play a role.