Starship Asterisk*

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:arrow: The WISPR image on NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured imagery of the constant outflow of material from the Sun during its close approach to the Sun in April 2019. Credit: NASA/NRL/APL

Amazing... "Harmony of the Spheres"... or at least one... the Sun.

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Translating particle impact and variable-field data of the solar wind into "sound" is about as meaningful as translating them into Japanese.[/quote][quote=https://www.etymonline.com/word/sound#etymonline_v_23919]

<<sound (n.1) "noise, what is heard, sensation produced through the ear," late 13c., soun, from Old French son "sound, musical note, voice," from Latin sonus "sound, a noise." The unetymological -d was established c. 1350-1550 as part of a tendency to add -d- after -n-. Compare gender (n.), thunder (n.), jaundice (n.), spindle, kindred, and, from French powder (n.), meddle, tender (adj.), remainder.[/quote]

[quote=pferkul post_id=298929 time=1579621265 user_id=128650]
Translating particle impact and variable-field data of the solar wind into "sound" is about as meaningful as translating them into Japanese.[/quote]

I disagree. It makes as good sense to translate 1D audio frequency data into sound as it does to translate 2D radio data to visible light images. Such techniques open up to our senses things which are otherwise not detectable, despite possessing sense analogs.

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"What does the solar wind sound like?" The video below gives the true answer.

Translating particle impact and variable-field data of the solar wind into "sound" is about as meaningful as translating them into Japanese.


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What does the solar wind sound like? A [url=https://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SolarWind.shtml]wind[/url] of fast moving particles blows out from [url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/overview/]our Sonny[/url], and although [url=https://www.sciencealert.com/sound-can-travel-through-space-after-all-but-we-can-t-hear-it]space transmits sound poorly[/url], particle impact and variable-field data from NASA's near-Sun [url=http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/]Parker Solar Probe[/url] is being translated into [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190710.html]sound[/url]. The disarming audio track of the featured video recounts several of [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/FeatureStory/200114]these reverberations[/url], including spooky-sounding [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/images/featurestory/20200114/psp_langmuir_waves.mp3]Langmuir Waves[/url] (heard first), hurricane-sounding [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/images/featurestory/20200114/psp_whistler_mode_waves_1.mp3]Whistler[/url] [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/images/featurestory/20200114/psp_whistler_mode_waves_2.mp3]Mode Waves[/url] (heard next), and hard-to-describe [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/images/featurestory/20200114/psp_dispersive_chirping_waves_2.mp3]Dispersive[/url] [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/images/featurestory/20200114/psp_dispersive_chirping_waves_1.mp3]Cherping Waves[/url] (heard last). Also impressive is the video's time-lapse visual track which shows [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191209.html]Parker's view[/url] to the side of its sun shield, and where the planets [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191012.html]Earth[/url], [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190205.html]Jupiter[/url], [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170723.html]Mercury[/url] and [url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/overview/]Venus[/url] appear in succession, interspersed with bursts of [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180902.html]powerful cosmic rays[/url] impacting the imager. The nature of the solar wind near Mercury is [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/FeatureStory/200114]surprisingly different[/url] from near the Earth, and [url=https://media.giphy.com/media/VbnUQpnihPSIgIXuZv/giphy.gif]much study[/url] is underway to better understand the differences.[/quote]

:( Me wondering why the tone differs near each planet! :saturn:
Oh I see[ still under study!

Does Mercury pass in front of the Milky Way in the video?

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200121.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200121.jpg[/img] [size=150]Parker: Sounds of the Solar Wind[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] What does the solar wind sound like? A [url=https://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SolarWind.shtml]wind[/url] of fast moving particles blows out from [url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/overview/]our Sun[/url], and although [url=https://www.sciencealert.com/sound-can-travel-through-space-after-all-but-we-can-t-hear-it]space transmits sound poorly[/url], particle impact and variable-field data from NASA's near-Sun [url=http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/]Parker Solar Probe[/url] is being translated into [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190710.html]sound[/url]. The disarming audio track of the featured video recounts several of [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/FeatureStory/200114]these reverberations[/url], including spooky-sounding [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/images/featurestory/20200114/psp_langmuir_waves.mp3]Langmuir Waves[/url] (heard first), hurricane-sounding [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/images/featurestory/20200114/psp_whistler_mode_waves_1.mp3]Whistler[/url] [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/images/featurestory/20200114/psp_whistler_mode_waves_2.mp3]Mode Waves[/url] (heard next), and hard-to-describe [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/images/featurestory/20200114/psp_dispersive_chirping_waves_2.mp3]Dispersive[/url] [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/images/featurestory/20200114/psp_dispersive_chirping_waves_1.mp3]Chirping Waves[/url] (heard last). Also impressive is the video's time-lapse visual track which shows [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191209.html]Parker's view[/url] to the side of its sun shield, and where the planets [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191012.html]Earth[/url], [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190205.html]Jupiter[/url], [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170723.html]Mercury[/url] and [url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/overview/]Venus[/url] appear in succession, interspersed with bursts of [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180902.html]powerful cosmic rays[/url] impacting the imager. The nature of the solar wind near Mercury is [url=https://www.jhuapl.edu/FeatureStory/200114]surprisingly different[/url] from near the Earth, and [url=https://media.giphy.com/media/VbnUQpnihPSIgIXuZv/giphy.gif]much study[/url] is underway to better understand the differences.


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