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| Beyond Cool: The Sounds Of Saturn... |
| 2004-08-27 |
| ...The folks at JPL - who have toys that are far past those of ordinary mortals - recently guided the Galileo spacecraft past Saturn and through its outer rings. The Galileo was struck by thousands of small particles as it made its flyby, and the ship?s instrumentation picked up the sounds of the particles bouncing off. The JPL techies were able to play that sound back: Now - listen to that and then tell me that your inner kid isn't grinning from ear to ear... |
| Posted by:Mike Kozlowski |
| #6 9.4 fallous. LOL! Whooopsie! nevermind. I thought you meant sounds more like Europa! LOL! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-08-27 6:59:25 PM |
| #5 Awesome. |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2004-08-27 1:56:08 PM |
| #4 Music of the spheres. Cassini passing through the rings of the gods. Thanks. |
| Posted by: DLS 2004-08-27 12:26:40 PM |
| #3 Thanks for the interlude Mike. For a second I was able to put all the Al-quaeda, John Kerry, Scott Peterson crap that buries us all into it's proper perspective in the grand scheme of things. Oh well, back to the mundane... |
| Posted by: Dripping Sarcasm 2004-08-27 10:56:29 AM |
| #2 ummm, that was Cassini not Galileo |
| Posted by: fallous 2004-08-27 10:13:23 AM |
| #1 That's incredible. |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-08-27 8:09:00 AM |