Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space

[burntheships]

Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space



Ok, I'll admit, it does sound strange...
Yet also sounds familiar.

Reminds me a bit of the strange sounds that
have been reported around the world, also
whale sounds.

Hmmmmm....

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft recently captured interstellar sounds and beamed them back to Earth for the rest of us.

These strange noises may sound like aliens, but they aren't. Voyager 1?s plasma wave instrument detected ionized gas and plasma vibrating in interstellar space. The graphic at the end of the video shows the frequency of the sound waves and colour indicates how loud it is. Red is the loudest colour and blue indicates the weakest sounds.

Scientists first encountered this crazy sounding interstellar plasma back in August 2012. That's right: This is what it sounds like in interstellar space. Be amazed.

http://o.canada.com/2013/09/12/nasas-voyager-1-captures-the-sound-of-interstellar-space/


But still, no aliens? 

[burntheships]

Going where we have never been before.

(Startrek anyone? ) 

In March 2012, there was a large eruption from the sun, the sound waves
that reached the Voyager in were heard in Arpril 2012, and are now recorded.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.

New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling for about one year through plasma, or ionized gas, present in the space between stars. Voyager is in a transitional region immediately outside the solar bubble, where some effects from our sun are still evident. A report on the analysis of this new data, an effort led by Don Gurnett and the plasma wave science team at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, is published in Thursday's edition of the journal Science.

"Now that we have new, key data, we believe this is mankind's historic leap into interstellar space," said Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. "The Voyager team needed time to analyze those observations and make sense of them. But we can now answer the question we've all been asking -- 'Are we there yet?' Yes, we are."
[/ex]http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20130912.html

[Somamech]

Love some Trek

What a weird video ?

[burntheships]

Love some Trek

What a weird video ?

Yes, it is. I found a bunch of them from
NASA Lab Propulsion, its a Star Trek moment.

[Amaterasu]

Going where we have never been before.

(Startrek anyone? ) 

That would be "Going where we have never gone before."

I mean, if One is a Star Trek purist.  [smile]