NASA spacecraft detected strange sounds of plasma as it plunged into Saturn

Saturn "sings" one of his moons?

NASA said that its Cassini spacecraft detected something very unusual – and unexpected – when it plunged into Saturn during its last mission last year.

He detected a series of plasma waves ranging from Saturn to his rings. of his moons. NASA has described it as resembling an electrical circuit, with energy flowing in both directions.

NASA said the researchers converted these plasma waves into an audio file "in the same way that a radio translates electromagnetic waves into music."

The result is the trippy sound file at the top of this story, which compresses 16 minutes of "Enceladus is this little generator that circulates around Saturn, and we know that it's all about". a source of continuous energy, "the University of Iowa, Iowa City, planet scientist Ali. Sulaiman said in a news release. "Now we find that Saturn responds by sending signals in the form of plasma waves, through the circuit of magnetic field lines connecting it to Enceladus at hundreds of thousands of kilometers."

Sulaiman is the main author of two articles on this discovery.

NASA said that the plasma waves were detected on September 2, 2017, about two weeks before Cassini completed his mission in disaster by deliberately crashing on Saturn.