Juno Waves Audio Clip



Juno Listens to Jupiter's Auroras


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During Juno's close flyby of Jupiter on August 27, 2016, the Waves instrument received radio signals associated with the giant planet's intense auroras. These are known as "Jovian kilometric emissions" because their wavelengths are roughly a kilometer long. The signals ranging from 7 to 100 kHz have been shifted down into the audio frequency range and compressed in time to fit 13 hours of observation into about 25 seconds.

The video presents a frequency-time spectrogram with a moving cursor that shows the time position of the audio track. Time advances from left to right along the horizontal axis, frequency ranges from low to high frequencies along the vertical axes, and the amplitude of the signals is color coded with blue indicating weak signals and red indicating strong signals.

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Contact information. Send questions or comments to William Kurth.
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