Sounds of Space
The University of Iowa
Descriptions of several types of sounds.
Whistlers
Chorus
Auroral Radio Emissions
The following links contain sample sounds produced by processing data received from spacecraft
Galileo spacecraft
(Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto pages contain text with links to audio files)
Voyager spacecraft
(
listen
or WAV file links in text)
Polar spacecraft
Cassini spacecraft - Page 1
Cassini spacecraft - Page 2
Cluster spacecraft 3 and 4
(Audio only. WAV file of a single 'whistler' made from data collected Feb. 4, 2001.)
Cluster spacecraft 2
(Audio only. WAV file of 'chorus' made from data collected July 9, 2001.)
Dynamics Explorer
(Audio only. WAV file of 'saucers' made from data collected by the Dynamics Explorer spacecraft.)
Space Plasma Wave Research Group
The Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Iowa