Jupiter’s auroras emit spooky sounds




When a NASA spacecraft made its first full orbit around Jupiter, an instrument on board recorded haunting sounds perfect for Halloween. The moans were coming from Jupiter’s auroras, light shows similar to the northern and southern lights on Earth but on a vastly larger scale. The radio emissions were recorded by an instrument called Waves as the Juno spacecraft traveled about 2600 miles above the gas giant’s swirling clouds. Engineers then converted those emission recordings into sound files.

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