DarkAnt
Jul11-04, 06:51 PM
I found the link to this on slashdot and I thought it was very interesting so I brought it here.
Each time a dust particle hit Cassini, the impact produced a puff of plasma--a tiny cloud of ionized gas. Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument was able to count these clouds; there were as many as 680 puffs per second. "We converted these into audible sounds that resemble hail hitting a tin roof," says Gurnett, the intrument's principal investigator.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/09jul_hailstorm.htm?list1193276
Each time a dust particle hit Cassini, the impact produced a puff of plasma--a tiny cloud of ionized gas. Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument was able to count these clouds; there were as many as 680 puffs per second. "We converted these into audible sounds that resemble hail hitting a tin roof," says Gurnett, the intrument's principal investigator.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/09jul_hailstorm.htm?list1193276