Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Lightning Sounds from Saturn (Audio)
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Lightning Sounds from Saturn

This audio clip was created from radio signals received by the radio and plasma wave science instrument on the Cassini spacecraft. The bursty radio emissions were generated by lightning flashes on Saturn and are similar to the crackles and pops one hears on an AM radio during a thunderstorm on Earth. This storm on Saturn occurred on January 23 and 24, 2006. The clip compresses two hours of observations into about 28 seconds. Therefore, every second of the audio clip corresponds to about 4 minutes, 18 seconds.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radio and plasma wave science team is based at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm and the instrument team's home page, http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/cassini/.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/University of Iowa
Produced By:
University of Iowa
Mission:
Cassini
Spacecraft:
Cassini Orbiter
Target Name:
Saturn
Is a satellite of:
Sol (our sun)
Instrument:
Radio and Plasma Wave Science Instrument
Product Size:
714 samples x 480 lines
Primary Data Set:
Cassini
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Sun
facet_what:
Earth
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Saturn
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Cassini
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Cassini Orbiter
facet_what:
Huygens Probe
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Cassini-Huygens
facet_what:
Radio and Plasma Wave Science Instrument
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where:
Saturn
facet_where:
California
facet_where:
Washington
facet_where:
Iowa
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_where:
Washington, D.C.
Image #:
PIA02166
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA02166
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Lightning Sounds from Saturn (Audio)