Hello legends! This is my latest work, hope you enjoy, much love >:D<

"The smallest planet in our solar system and nearest to the Sun, Mercury is only slightly larger than Earth's Moon.

From the surface of Mercury, the Sun would appear more than three times as large as it does when viewed from Earth, and the sunlight would be as much as seven times brighter. Despite its proximity to the Sun, Mercury is not the hottest planet in our solar system – that title belongs to nearby Venus, thanks to its dense atmosphere.

Because of Mercury's elliptical – egg-shaped – orbit, and sluggish rotation, the Sun appears to rise briefly, set, and rise again from some parts of the planet's surface. The same thing happens in reverse at sunset." 

( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mercury/overview/ )

Mercury

Hello legends! This song was created starting from the middle, with piano keys played for fun in a afternoon with help from https://www.instagram.com/flowerpwr.artandtattoos/ and the rest evolved on both sides from there. Hope your trip to Venus will be as awesome as mine was. Much love from Timisoara, Romania. Written in C scale (154bpm).

"Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is Earth’s closest planetary neighbor. It’s one of the four inner, terrestrial (or rocky) planets, and it’s often called Earth’s twin because it’s similar in size and density. These are not identical twins, however – there are radical differences between the two worlds.

Venus has a thick, toxic atmosphere filled with carbon dioxide and it’s perpetually shrouded in thick, yellowish clouds of sulfuric acid that trap heat, causing a runaway greenhouse effect. It’s the hottest planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to the Sun. Surface temperatures on Venus are about 900 degrees Fahrenheit (475 degrees Celsius) – hot enough to melt lead. The surface is a rusty color and it’s peppered with intensely crunched mountains and thousands of large volcanoes. Scientists think it’s possible some volcanoes are still active.

Venus has crushing air pressure at its surface – more than 90 times that of Earth – similar to the pressure you'd encounter a mile below the ocean on Earth.

Another big difference from Earth – Venus rotates on its axis backward, compared to most of the other planets in the solar system. This means that, on Venus, the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east, opposite to what we experience on Earth. (It’s not the only planet in our solar system with such an oddball rotation – Uranus spins on its side.)

Venus was the first planet to be explored by a spacecraft – NASA’s Mariner 2 successfully flew by and scanned the cloud-covered world on Dec. 14, 1962. Since then, numerous spacecraft from the U.S. and other space agencies have explored Venus, including NASA’s Magellan, which mapped the planet's surface with radar. Soviet spacecraft made the most successful landings on the surface of Venus to date, but they didn’t survive long due to the extreme heat and crushing pressure. An American probe, one of NASA's Pioneer Venus Multiprobes, survived for about an hour after impacting the surface in 1978.

More recent Venus missions include ESA’s Venus Express (which orbited from 2006 until 2016) and Japan’s Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter (orbiting since 2016).

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has made multiple flybys of Venus. On Feb. 9, 2022, NASA announced the spacecraft had captured its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space during its February 2021 flyby."

( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/overview/ )

Venus

Hello legends! Here is the next track to visit In this journey through our Solar System, Mars. I hope you guys and girls like it and share it with like-minded people. Let's make DnB great again :D :D >:D< 
Much love from Romania!!! Written in C scale (170bpm).

"Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun – a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. Mars is also a dynamic planet with seasons, polar ice caps, canyons, extinct volcanoes, and evidence that it was even more active in the past.

Mars is one of the most explored bodies in our solar system, and it's the only planet where we've sent rovers to roam the alien landscape.

NASA currently has two rovers (Curiosity and Perseverance), one lander (InSight), and one helicopter (Ingenuity) exploring the surface of Mars.

Perseverance rover – the largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world – touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). The Ingenuity helicopter rode to Mars attached to the belly of Perseverance.

Perseverance is one of three spacecraft that arrived at Mars in 2021. The Hope orbiter from the United Arab Emirates arrived on Feb. 9, 2021. China’s Tianwen-1 mission arrived on Feb. 10, 2021, and includes an orbiter, a lander, and a rover. Europe and India also have spacecraft studying Mars from orbit.

In May 2021, China became the second nation to ever land successfully on Mars when its Zhurong Mars rover touched down.

An international fleet of eight orbiters is studying the Red Planet from above including three NASA orbiters: 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and MAVEN.

These robotic explorers have found lots of evidence that Mars was much wetter and warmer, with a thicker atmosphere, billions of years ago."

( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mars/overview/ )

Mars

Hello legends! Today I had a different vibe than usual so this is the consequence, we stray a little bit from DnB to some Techno vibes. Hope you like it >:D< Hugs and love from Romania!

"Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a donut-shaped region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. There may be millions of these icy objects, collectively referred to as Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) or trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), in this distant region of our solar system.

Pluto – which is smaller than Earth’s Moon – has a heart-shaped glacier that’s the size of Texas and Oklahoma. This fascinating world has blue skies, spinning moons, mountains as high as the Rockies, and it snows – but the snow is red.

On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flight through the Pluto system – providing the first close-up images of Pluto and its moons and collecting other data that has transformed our understanding of these mysterious worlds on the solar system’s outer frontier.

In the years since that groundbreaking flyby, nearly every conjecture about Pluto possibly being an inert ball of ice has been thrown out the window or flipped on its head.

“It’s clear to me that the solar system saved the best for last!” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado. “We could not have explored a more fascinating or scientifically important planet at the edge of our solar system. The New Horizons team worked for 15 years to plan and execute this flyby and Pluto paid us back in spades!”"
( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/dwarf-planets/pluto/overview/ )

Pluto

Hello legends! Another stop in our journey through the solar system , here on Saturn. I started with the piano and the rest just evolved, i've put a lot of work into it, I really hope you enjoy, much love >:D<

"Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest planet in our solar system.

Adorned with thousands of beautiful ringlets, Saturn is unique among the planets. It is not the only planet to have rings – made of chunks of ice and rock – but none are as spectacular or as complicated as Saturn's.

Like fellow gas giant Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium."(https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/saturn/overview/)

Saturn

Hello legends! "Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending". We reached the final planet in our Journey Through The Solar System, but this is not the end, we have plenty of moons left to explore. I hope you enjoy this track, I had a lot of fun making it. Much love

"Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and has the third-largest diameter in our solar system. It was the first planet found with the aid of a telescope, Uranus was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William Herschel, although he originally thought it was either a comet or a star.

It was two years later that the object was universally accepted as a new planet, in part because of observations by astronomer Johann Elert Bode. Herschel tried unsuccessfully to name his discovery Georgium Sidus after King George III. Instead, the scientific community accepted Bode's suggestion to name it Uranus, the Greek god of the sky, as suggested by Bode.​"

( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/uranus/overview/ )

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Uranus

This is a mix containing some of my best DnB tracks made over the last 3 years and it was firstly aired on the 30th of June 2023 on the show Electrocord by RADIO GUERRILLA.  Many many thanks go to the whole team Drumandbass.ro for the support and many many thanks to all of you guys and girls which are listening to this right now. Much love!
Tracklist: 
1.  00:00  - 03:14  Doina (unreleased)
2.  03:15  - 06:14  Uranus
3.  06:15  - 10:10  Titan
4.  10:11  - 14:19  Rhea
5.  14:20  - 17:59  Near side of the Moon
6.  18:00  - 22:44  Saturn
7.  22:45  - 25:39  WibeZz - Radiating (EquilibriuM remix)
8.  25:40  - 29:49  Mars
9.  29:50  - 32:44  Mercury
10. 32:45 - 36:34 Far side of the Moon
11. 36:35 - 39:19 Jupiter
12. 39:20 - 42:34 Neptune
13. 42:35 - 46:09 Iapetus
14. 46:10 - 50:00 Ganymede

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Hello legends! Another stop in our journey, now we travelled back near to Earth to our beloved Moon which guides us through the night with light from the Sun. Added the birds which I recorded during a sunrise last year to emphasize the relation between the Moon and our Sun. Had a lot of fun doing it and I really hope you enjoy it as much as I do. This track contains audio extracted from a Youtube Video titled " Richard Feynman - Not Knowing Things ",I do not own any copyrights on the video nor the dialogue, no infringement intended.

"Earth's Moon is the only place beyond Earth where humans have set foot.

The brightest and largest object in our night sky, the Moon makes Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet's wobble on its axis, leading to a relatively stable climate. It also causes tides, creating a rhythm that has guided humans for thousands of years. The Moon was likely formed after a Mars-sized body collided with Earth.

Earth's Moon is the fifth largest of the 200+ moons orbiting planets in our solar system.

NASA currently has three robotic spacecraft exploring the Moon – Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the twin ARTEMIS spacecraft (not to be confused with NASA's new Artemis program to send astronauts back to the Moon)."

( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/earths-moon/overview/ )

Primavera

Far Side Of The Moon

Hello legends! We're still on the orbit on our beloved moon, just rotated around to see something that we're more familiar with :) Did a different take on the Far side to get to the near side  :)) hope you legends love it ! 
"Earth's Moon is the only place beyond Earth where humans have set foot.

The brightest and largest object in our night sky, the Moon makes Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet's wobble on its axis, leading to a relatively stable climate. It also causes tides, creating a rhythm that has guided humans for thousands of years. The Moon was likely formed after a Mars-sized body collided with Earth.

Earth's Moon is the fifth largest of the 200+ moons orbiting planets in our solar system.

NASA currently has three robotic spacecraft exploring the Moon – Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the twin ARTEMIS spacecraft (not to be confused with NASA's new Artemis program to send astronauts back to the Moon)."
( solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/earths-moon/overview/ )

Estate

Near side of the Moon

Hello legends! We arrived at our next stop in our journey, the second largest moon of Saturn, Rhea. I started this project about 2 years ago, I had only 20 seconds of harmonics, the ones from the beginning. I managed to find a bassline to go with the rest of the storm of harmonics. Between the chaos there's a part of a dialogue taken out of the 1981 movie "My dinner with Andre" (I do not own any copyrights on the dialogue, no infringement intended)I hope you like it.
"Rhea is the second largest moon of Saturn, but with a mean radius of 475 miles (764 kilometers) it is less than a third the radius of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Rhea is a small, cold, airless body that is very similar to sister moons Dione and Tethys. 

As with the other two moons, Rhea is tidally locked in phase with its parent — one side always faces toward Saturn — as it completes its 4.5-Earth-day orbit around the planet. Rhea's surface temperatures are also similar to Dione and Tethys, being roughly as warm as -281 degrees Fahrenheit (-174 degrees Celsius) in sunlit areas and ranging down to -364 degrees Fahrenheit (-220 degrees Celsius) in shaded areas. Also like Dione and Tethys, Rhea has a high reflectivity (or geometric albedo) suggesting a surface composition largely of water ice, which behaves like rock in Rhea's temperature range.

Rhea's density of 1.233 times that of liquid water suggests that Rhea is three quarters ice and one quarter rock. Cassini spacecraft measurements from a close encounter showed a moment of inertia about its axis (a measure of how difficult it is to change its rotation) of a higher value than what would be expected if Rhea has a rocky core. Thus, it is thought that Rhea is composed of a homogenous mixture of ice and rock — a frozen dirty snowball.

Rhea, at a distance of 327,500 miles (527,000 kilometers), is farther away from Saturn than Dione and Tethys, and because of this Rhea does not receive ample tidal variation from Saturn to cause internal heating. This has an important effect. Both Dione and Tethys have more areas of smooth plains than Rhea. Such plains are probably areas where liquid water reached the surface and ponded in depressions such as craters, forming flat surfaces before refreezing and thus erasing existing craters. The lesser internal warmth at Rhea could have resulted in fewer erasures or there could have been more bombardment on Rhea. Whatever the reason, Rhea is more heavily cratered than Dione and Tethys."  
( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/rhea/in-depth/ )

Rhea

Hello legends! We arrived at our next stop in our journey, the biggest Moon in our solar system, Jupiter's Ganymede. I started with the piano bits and then added some bass and somehow over the course of a couple of days it developed into this. I hope you will enjoy as much as I did making it. Hugs >:D< 

"Jupiter’s icy moon Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system, even bigger than the planet Mercury, and the dwarf planet Pluto. There’s strong evidence that Ganymede has an underground saltwater ocean that may hold more water than all the water on Earth's surface. It might even have ice and oceans stacked up in several layers like a club sandwich.

Ganymede is the only moon known to have its own magnetic field – something typically found on planets like Earth. The magnetic field causes auroras, or bright ribbons of glowing gas, that circle the moon’s poles.

There is evidence Ganymede has a tenuous oxygen atmosphere.

Images taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on June 7, 2021, provided a fresh look at features on Ganymede’s surface including craters, clearly distinct dark, and bright terrain, and long structural features possibly linked to tectonic faults. Deep inside Ganymede, there’s a metallic iron core that generates the moon's magnetic field. A shell of rock surrounds the core, and another icy shell surrounds the rock.

Several NASA probes have explored Jupiter and its moons, including Ganymede. The Juno spacecraft was most recent, taking detailed photographs of Ganymede in June 2021."
( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/ganymede/overview/ )

Ganymede

Hello legends! We arrived at our next stop in our journey, orbiting around one of the most fascinating moons of Saturn, Enceladus, the Ice Queen. So despite her beauty, there may be some melancholic notes to feel the ice within. I had a lot of fun making it so I hope at least a small part of that joy will somehow melt the ice away.

"     For decades, scientists didn’t know why Enceladus was the brightest world in the solar system, or how it related to Saturn’s E ring. Cassini found that both the fresh coating on its surface, and icy material in the E ring originate from vents connected to a global subsurface saltwater ocean that might host hydrothermal vents.

     Before Cassini arrived at the Saturn system, planetary explorers only had hints that something interesting might be happening at Enceladus. Pictures from the Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s indicated that although this moon is small—only about 310 miles (500 kilometers) across—its icy surface is remarkably smooth in some places, and bright white all over.

     It was data from the magnetometer aboard the Cassini spacecraft that prompted scientists to take a closer look at Enceladus with a targeted flyby. Something—perhaps an atmosphere—was pushing against Saturn's magnetic field near Enceladus. This meant gases may have been originating from the moon's surface or interior.

     Cassini revealed the dramatic truth: Enceladus is an active moon that hides a global ocean of liquid salty water beneath its crust. What’s more, jets of icy particles from that ocean, laced with a brew of water and simple organic chemicals, gush out into space continuously from this fascinating ocean world. The material shoots out at about 800 miles per hour (400 meters per second) and forms a plume that extends hundreds of miles into space. Some of the material falls back onto Enceladus, and some escapes to form Saturn’s vast E ring.

     The E ring is mostly made of ice droplets, but among them are peculiar nanoparticles. Cassini detected these passing silica nanograins, which can only be generated where liquid water and rock interact at temperatures above 90 degrees Celsius (about 200 degrees F). This points to hydrothermal vents deep beneath Enceladus’ icy shell, not unlike the hydrothermal vents that dot the ocean floor here on Earth.

     Cassini flew by Enceladus for the last time in October 2015, but explorers will be poring over the data it sent home for years to come, planning for the day we return to delve deeper into its secrets. "
( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/science/enceladus/ )

Enceladus

Hello dear legends! Today we stop for a brief moment and gaze at the center of our galaxy, at the epic black hole named Sagittarius A*. As we stare at it we begin to hear some techno beats combined with some off world strings and a little bit of spiritual guidance from a master of feelings named Shi Heng Yi. I hope you guys will enjoy it and will share it to others :D Have a great weekend. Written in C scale (138 bpm).


"     As the Event Horizon Telescope collected data for its remarkable new image of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, a legion of other telescopes including three NASA X-ray observatories in space was also watching.

     Astronomers are using these observations to learn more about how the black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy — known as Sagittarius A * (Sgr A* for short) — interacts with, and feeds off, its environment some 27,000 light years from Earth.

     When the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observed Sgr A* in April 2017 to make the new image, scientists in the collaboration also peered at the same black hole with facilities that detect different wavelengths of light. In this multiwavelength observing campaign, they assembled X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory; radio data from the East Asian Very Long-Baseline Interferometer (VLBI) network and the Global 3-millimeter VLBI array; and infrared data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.

"     The Event Horizon Telescope has captured yet another remarkable image, this time of the giant black hole at the center of our own home galaxy," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. "Looking more comprehensively at this black hole will help us learn more about its cosmic effects on its environment, and exemplifies the international collaboration that will carry us into the future and reveal discoveries we could never have imagined."
     One of the biggest ongoing questions surrounding black holes is exactly how they collect, ingest, or even expel material orbiting them at near light speed, in a process known as "accretion." This process is fundamental to the formation and growth of planets, stars, and black holes of all sizes, throughout the universe. "
 ( https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/sagittarius-a-nasa-telescopes-support-event-horizon-telescope-in-studying-milky-ways.html )

Sagittarius A

Hello dear legends! I wanted to spend a little more time gazing at the black hole in the center of our Galaxy, so I made an extended version without the spiritual guidance, and with a couple of new notes at the end. Hope you will enjoy it! Until the next one, cheers! Written in C scale(138 bpm).

" As the Event Horizon Telescope collected data for its remarkable new image of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, a legion of other telescopes including three NASA X-ray observatories in space was also watching.

Astronomers are using these observations to learn more about how the black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy — known as Sagittarius A * (Sgr A* for short) — interacts with, and feeds off, its environment some 27,000 light years from Earth.

When the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observed Sgr A* in April 2017 to make the new image, scientists in the collaboration also peered at the same black hole with facilities that detect different wavelengths of light. In this multiwavelength observing campaign, they assembled X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory; radio data from the East Asian Very Long-Baseline Interferometer (VLBI) network and the Global 3-millimeter VLBI array; and infrared data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.

" The Event Horizon Telescope has captured yet another remarkable image, this time of the giant black hole at the center of our own home galaxy," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. "Looking more comprehensively at this black hole will help us learn more about its cosmic effects on its environment, and exemplifies the international collaboration that will carry us into the future and reveal discoveries we could never have imagined."
One of the biggest ongoing questions surrounding black holes is exactly how they collect, ingest, or even expel material orbiting them at near light speed, in a process known as "accretion." This process is fundamental to the formation and growth of planets, stars, and black holes of all sizes, throughout the universe. "
( www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chan…ng-milky-ways.html )

Sagittarius A Extended Clean Version

Hello there legends! Back with a new one, this time I am competing in MOONBOY's Exodus Producer Contest. I received the samples from the EXODUS pack and I had to create my own version of a song using those specific samples. I want to thank MOONBOY for the opportunity to test myself and to evolve into a better producer. It was an absolute joy to work with the samples from the Exodus sample pack and I am pleased that I could create a very nice sounding DNB beat using the MOONBOY Kicks, Snares and HiHats combined with some UK dub beats later in the song. Along the beats I used  Exodus's Bass loops, Synth leads, Vocals, FX risers, Arp loops as well as some MOONBOY's noises :D. I hope you like what I came up with and I hope you will share it to your friends and foes :)) Much love and good luck to everyone !

MOONBOY Exodus producer contest

Hello there legends! Back in our journey through our solar system, this time dancing around Tethys, Saturn's fifth largest Moon, with the help of a DnB beat, some piano notes played from the heart, some deep basslines, a sub bass, some pads, and a breakbeat. I had a lot of fun these past few days working at it, I hope you girls and gents will like it. Much love, see you on our next stop! Written in E minor harmonic scale (174bpm).

"Tethys is Saturn's fifth largest moon. Its irregular shape is 331 miles (533 kilometers) in mean radius, with dimensions 669 x 657 x 654 miles (1076.8 x 1057.4 x 1052.6 kilometers). This cold, airless and heavily scarred body is very similar to sister moons Dione and Rhea except that Tethys is not as heavily cratered as the other two. This may be because its proximity to Saturn causes more tidal warming, and that warming kept Tethys partially molten longer, erasing or dulling more of the early terrain.

Tethys' density is 0.97 times that of liquid water, which suggests that Tethys is composed almost entirely of water ice plus a small amount of rock.

Tethys has a high reflectivity (or visual albedo) of 1.229 in the visual range, again suggesting a composition largely of water ice, which would behave like rock in the Tethyan average temperature of -305 degrees Fahrenheit (-187 degrees Celsius). Many of the crater floors on Tethys are bright, which also suggests an abundance of water ice. Also contributing to the high reflectivity is that Tethys is bombarded by Saturn E-ring water-ice particles generated by geysers on Enceladus.

Tethys appeared as a tiny dot to astronomers until the Voyager (1 and 2) encounters in 1980 and 1981. The Voyager images showed a major impact crater and a great chasm. The Cassini spacecraft has added details including a great variety of colors at small scales suggesting a variety of materials not seen elsewhere.

Orbit
Tethys orbits 183,000 miles (295,000 kilometers) from Saturn, taking 45.3 hours to circle the planet. As with all but two of the major Saturnian moons, Tethys is tidally locked in phase with its parent planet — the same side always faces toward Saturn.

Tethys has gravitationally locked two smaller moons into its own subsystem — Telesto and Calypso. These smaller moons are held in Lagrangian points (L4 and L5, respectively), where objects are stable with the larger controlling body. These three moons complete their orbits around Saturn moving as a unit, spaced out at 60-degree intervals first Telesto, then Tethys, followed by Calypso. The fact that Tethys and other Saturnian moons have such objects implies that their respective Lagrangian points have been stable against outside influences for millions of years.

Surface
The Tethyan northern hemisphere is lighter colored and heavily reworked from ages of bombardment. For instance, near the prominent peaked crater Telemachus (Odysseus' son in "The Odyssey") are the remnants of Teiresias Crater (named for a famous soothsayer of ancient Greece). The ancient Teiresias impact site is so badly overprinted and eroded by impact weathering and degradation that only a circular pattern of hummocks remains to indicate the old crater rim.

Closer to the equator, the terrain is darker and has fewer craters. This less-dense cratering suggests past internal activity and resurfacing of the terrain.

Around the equator on its leading side, Tethys wears a band of slightly darker surface material. Scientists suspect the darkened region may represent an area of less contaminated ice with differently sized grains than the material at higher latitudes on either side of the band."
( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/tethys/in-depth/  )

Tethys

Hello there legends! Time for another short stop within Saturn's orbit, on Dione, which is roughly the same diameter as Tethys (1,123 compared to 1,062), only it is twice as heavy [0.015 M☾ (using our Moon's mass in kilograms) - compared to 0.008 M☾]. I started with the piano bits and pieces and afterwards played with some basslines and created some beats to fit with the rest of the sounds. I hope you will like it, I experimented a bit. Written in D minor harmonic scale (175bpm).

"
Discovery
     Giovanni Cassini discovered Dione on March 21, 1684.

Overview
     Dione is a small moon of 349 miles (562 km) in mean radius orbiting Saturn every 2.7 days at a distance of 234,500 miles (377,400 km), which is roughly the same distance that the moon orbits around the Earth.

     Dione's density is 1.48 times that of liquid water, suggesting that about a third of Dione is made up of a dense core (probably silicate rock) with the remainder of its material being ice. At Dione's average temperature of -304 degrees Fahrenheit (-186 degrees Celsius or 87 kelvins), ice is very hard and behaves like rock.

     Very fine ice powder (equivalent to smoke) from Saturn's E-ring constantly bombards Dione. The dust in the E-ring ultimately comes from Enceladus, which has prominent geyser activity.

Surface
     Dione's features include heavily cratered terrain with craters as large as 62 miles (100 km) across, moderately cratered plains, lightly cratered plains, and fractured areas. The heavily cratered areas are most common on the trailing hemisphere. Logically, a moon's leading hemisphere should be the more heavily cratered, so it has been theorized that a more recent impact spun Dione around. It has been calculated that bodies as small as those that made 22-mile (35-km) craters on Dione could have spun the moon around to its current position. However, the fact that Dione seems to have spun exactly 180 degrees is a mystery.

     Fractured areas, seen in Voyager images as bright and thin wispy lines, have lengths of tens to hundreds of miles, often cutting through plains and craters. Cassini flybys starting in 2005 showed "the wisps" as bright canyon ice walls (some of them several hundred meters high), probably caused by subsidence cracking. The walls are bright because darker material falls off them, exposing bright water ice. These fracture cliffs suggest Dione experienced tectonic activity in its past. They could be a mature phase of the so-called tiger stripes on Enceladus.

     Just like Earth's Moon, Dione is phase locked with its parent; one side always faces toward Saturn. Likewise, Dione has gravitationally locked two much smaller moons: Helene orbits Saturn 60 degrees ahead of Dione, and Polydeuces orbits Saturn 60 degrees behind Dione. (These tidally locked moon locations are also referred to as Lagrangian points, L4 for the leading spot and L5 for the trailing spot, based on calculations of the French astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange in 1772.)
 
     Dione is in resonance with two nearby moons, Mimas and Enceladus. That is, these moons speed up slightly as they approach each other and slow down as they draw away, causing their orbits to vary slightly in a long series of complex changes, which helps keep them locked in their positions. Dione keeps Enceladus locked at a period exactly one half that of its own orbital period. "
(https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/dione/in-depth/ )

Dione

Hello legends! Here we are again, yet on another stop in our journey, on Mimas. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did making this song. I had a little help from my cousin, we played all day fine tuning this banger :D Written in G minor harmonic scale (174bpm).
" 
Discovery
     Mimas was discovered on Sept. 17, 1789 by English astronomer William Herschel, using his 40-foot reflector telescope.

     Ground-based astronomers could only see Mimas as little more than a dot until Voyagers I and II imaged it in 1980. The Cassini spacecraft made several close approaches and provided detailed images of Mimas.

Overview
     Less than 123 miles (198 kilometers) in mean radius, crater-covered Mimas is the smallest and innermost of Saturn's major moons. It is not quite big enough to hold a round shape, so it is somewhat ovoid with dimensions of 129 x 122 x 119 miles (207 x 197 x 191 kilometers, respectively). Its low density suggests that it consists almost entirely of water ice, which is the only substance ever detected on Mimas.

     At a mean distance just over 115,000 miles (186,000 kilometers) from the massive planet, Mimas takes only 22 hours and 36 minutes to complete an orbit. Mimas is tidally locked: it keeps the same face toward Saturn as it flies around the planet, just as our Moon does with Earth.

     Most of the Mimas surface is saturated with impact craters ranging in size up to greater than 25 miles (40 kilometers) in diameter. However, the craters in the South Pole region of Mimas are generally 12.4 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter or less. This suggests that some melting or other resurfacing processes occurred there later than on the rest of the moon. (Interestingly, the South Pole area of 
     Enceladus appears to be the source of that moon's geysers.)
     Its most distinguishing feature is a giant impact crater – named Herschel after the moon's discoverer – which stretches a third of the way across the face of the moon, making it look like the Death Star from "Star Wars." The Herschel Crater is 80 miles (130 kilometers) across – one third of the diameter of the moon itself – with outer walls about 3 miles (5 kilometers) high and a central peak 3.5 miles (6 km) high. The impact that blasted this crater out of Mimas probably came close to breaking the moon apart. Shock waves from the 
      Herschel impact may have caused the fractures, also called chasmata, on the opposite side of Mimas.

      That Mimas appears to be frozen solid is puzzling because Mimas is closer to Saturn and has a much more eccentric (elongated) orbit than Enceladus, which should mean that Mimas has more tidal heating than Enceladus. Yet Enceladus displays geysers of water, which implies internal heat, while Mimas has one of the most heavily cratered surfaces in the solar system, which suggests a frozen surface that has persisted for enough time to preserve all those craters. This paradox has prompted the "Mimas Test" by which any theory that claims to explain the partially thawed water of Enceladus must also explain the entirely frozen water of Mimas.

How Mimas Got its Name
     The mythological Mimas was a giant who was killed by Mars in the war between the Titans and the gods of Olympus. Even after his death, Mimas' legs – which were serpents – hissed vengeance and sought to attack his killer.

     Mimas was named by John Herschel, the son of discoverer William Herschel, who explained his choice of names for the first seven of Saturn's moons to be discovered by writing, "As Saturn devoured his children, his family could not be assembled round him, so that the choice lay among his brothers and sisters, the Titans and Titanesses."

     Astronomers also refer to Mimas as "Saturn I" based on its distance being the closest to Saturn. The International Astronomical Union now controls the official naming of astronomical bodies "
( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/mimas/in-depth/ )

Mimas

Hello there legends! This is the Intro contained in my upcoming album "Estate" on September 22nd, which will be released on all mainstream platforms like Spotify, Youtube, AppleMusic, Tidal, and so on. It will also be available on my Bandcamp page were you can download individual songs for a very small fee or the entire album for 10 euros.  Many many thanks to all of whom listened to what I create and also many thanks to the ones that gave me feedback so I could better myself with every song I released.

Intro

Outro - Dedicated to Hanu Ilie (R.I.P)

Hello there legends! Back at it with a remix of Neev - Seawall, for a remix competition organized by https://repostexchange.com/. I received all the stems from the original track and I managed to create a bassline that fits most of the notes, played a bit with the order of the original sounds, added some awesome dnb beats, kicks, snares, hats and rounded all up with a rolling bass that creeps in at about a third of the track. Hope you will enjoy it as much as I did making it. See you on the next one, peace!

Neev - Seawall (EquilibriuM Remix)

Hey there legends! Back with another one! Hope you will enjoy it as much as I did making it, much love! Written in C minor harmonic scale.

"     Europa is one of the largest of Jupiter’s more than 90 moons. It's the sixth-closest moon to the planet. Europa and Jupiter’s three other largest moons – Io, Ganymede, and Callisto – were the first moons discovered beyond Earth. They are called the Galilean moons after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who first observed them with a homemade telescope in January 1610.

     Europa is primarily made of silicate rock and has a water-ice crust and probably an iron-nickel core. It has a very thin atmosphere, composed primarily of oxygen. Cracks and streaks striate its surface, but craters are relatively few. Scientists are almost certain that hidden beneath the icy surface of Europa is a saltwater ocean with about twice as much water as Earth’s global ocean.

     Europa may be one of the most promising places in our solar system to find present-day environments suitable for some form of life beyond Earth. Scientists believe a saltwater ocean lies beneath its icy shell, holding twice as much water as Earth's global ocean, and possibly the chemical elements that are key ingredients to life. NASA is sending its Europa Clipper spacecraft in 2024 to investigate whether Europa has the capability to support life, and is scheduled to enter orbit and begin its search in 2030.

Pop Culture

     Europa has been featured in short stories, comics, and novels, with perhaps the best known being the Arthur C. Clarke novel “2010: Odyssey Two,” which was also adapted for film.

     At least two “Star Trek” federation starships were named for Europa, and in “Star Trek: Picard” a mission to Europa helped save Earth. "  (  https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/moons/europa/  )

Europa

Hello there legends! After a few weeks it is time to get back to business! We returned to our journey through time and space, this time on a close orbit around Callisto, gazing at a picture taken by our beloved space Probe Galileo, 2 years before plunging into Jupiter's atmosphere. Whilst gazing at one of Jupiter's moons we embark on a musical experience made by yours truly. I started with the piano notes, struggling for a few days to find the right sound that I was feeling, then added some wholehearted kicks, some snares, some jazzy hihats and some atmospheric vibes. Towards the end I added some playful notes made with my Kaossilator Pro +, tried something new this time, I think it sounds interesting even though takes the Bpm from the beloved 174 to 348 (yeah baby :)) ). I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did making it, much love!

"     Callisto is Jupiter’s second largest moon and the third largest moon in our solar system. Its surface is the most heavily cratered of any object in our solar system. Images of Callisto captured by passing spacecraft show bright white spots standing out against darker regions. Scientists think the bright areas are mostly ice and the darker patches are areas where the ice has eroded.

     Once thought to be a dead, inactive rocky body, data gathered by the Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s indicate Callisto may have a salty ocean beneath its icy surface. More recent research reveals that this ocean may be located deeper beneath the surface than previously thought, or may not exist at all. If an ocean is present, it’s possible the ocean is interacting with rock on Callisto, creating a potential habitat for life.

Jupiter and its moons are popular subjects for science fiction writers and Callisto is no exception. It appears in several books and in the TV show “Cowboy Bebop,” Callisto has been terraformed and is home to mostly men.

In the 1930s, writer Harl Vincent had Earth and Callisto at war in his novel “Callisto at War.”

Isaac Asimov’s 1940 novel "The Callistan Menace” depicts Callisto as having an atmosphere of carbon dioxide and oxygen with lakes and vegetation. It’s also a deathtrap crawling with giant caterpillars.

Callisto gets a mention in Robert A. Heinlein's 1950 novel “Farmer in the Sky.” The book is mostly about Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, but it discusses an atmosphere being created so colonists can live on Callisto.

Philip K. Dick, author of “Blade Runner” and “The Minority Report” wrote a short story in 1955 called “The Mold of Yancy” about colonists living in a totalitarian society on Callisto.

Lin Carter created a series of eight books in the 1970s called the Callisto series. The books featured a soldier who is teleported to Callisto where he finds an ancient human civilization. In the book Callisto is like Earth, but some sort of illusion makes it seem uninhabitable to outsiders.

In Kim Stanely Robinson’s book “2312,” settlers have colonized Callisto’s giant moon-spanning impact crater Valhalla, starting from its innermost ring. The author envisions windows lining the inward-facing parts of the rings. As the colony grows and residents seek to maintain their space and independence, they settle in the different rings, creating separate colonies in each one.

The moon is also featured in several other books including:

The “Bio of a Space Tyrant” series by Piers Anthony
“Callisto: Dystopian Space” by Rob Lopez
“The Rowan” by Anne McCaffrey
“The Quiet War” by Paul J. McAuley
“Blue Mars” and “Galileo’s Dream” by Kim Stanley Robinson
“Wheelers” by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen  "

(  https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/moons/callisto/  )

Callisto

Hey there legends! Next stop in our journey : Amalthea. There might be some disturbing sounds in the beginning, I think we can hear that with our intergalactic radio, maybe Amalthea wants to communicate with us! It took a while to get my head around this one, started with the piano keys and searched for lots of sounds to go with the keys. I managed to find some nice vocals to accompany the piano, I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did making it, much love! 

" 
Amalthea was discovered Sept. 9, 1892 by Edward Emerson Barnard.

Orbiting within Io's orbit, which is the innermost of the four largest moons of Jupiter (called the Galilean moons), are four smaller moons named Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, and Thebe.

All of the moons within this grouping are oddly shaped, lacking either the mass and/or fluidity of composition to pull themselves into a reasonably spherical shape. The Galileo spacecraft has revealed some surface features, including impact craters, hills, and valleys.

Amalthea is the largest within this grouping with a mean radius of about 83.5 ± 2.4 km. Amalthea orbits 181,400 km from its parent planet, Jupiter. Amalthea takes 0.498 Earth days to complete one orbit.

Amalthea is the reddest object in the solar system and it appears to give out more heat than it receives from the sun. This may be because, as it orbits within Jupiter's powerful magnetic field, electric currents are included in the moon's core. Alternatively, the heat could be from tidal stresses.

Amalthea and Thebe rotate on their axes once for each orbit around Jupiter, always keeping the same side facing the planet. This orbit takes about one-half an Earth day for Amalthea and two-thirds an Earth day for Thebe.

Amalthea and the moon Thebe provide the material for the Gossamer ring.

Since Io orbits about 422,000 km above Jupiter and, at this close distance, is subjected to extreme tidal flexing from Jupiter's gravity, one would imagine that this even closer satellite would be pulled to pieces. However, because it is so small (Amalthea's diameter is 1/19th that of Io's diameter) it is relatively immune to the effects of tidal forces. Since Amalthea is so close to its parent planet its orbit will eventually decay and it will fall into the planet.

How Amalthea Got its Name
Originally designated Jupiter V, Camille Flammarion suggested the name Amalthea for this moon. Amalthea is named for a naiad who nursed the newborn Jupiter. Amalthea is often depicted with a goat, whose milk is said to have fed the infant Jupiter.
"    (   https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/moons/amalthea/  )
P.S. Sorry I didn't find a real picture of Amalthea with more than 500 pixels so I had to go with a render.

Amalthea

Hello there legends! Back with something different today, wanted to see how well I could mix 2 songs together. After many tries I think I found a song that goes very nice with my latest upload, so the result is something special, to me at least :D I took the melodic atmospheric sounds from John Hopkin's Circle, left the beginning part more or less the same, and then added Echo and Delay. The dnb beats are from my latest "Amalthea" and also introduced the voice from that same track, here and there. I really love the way it changes at 3:05, left only the beats and took the echo and delay off "Circle".  Overall I really like how it turned out, I really hope you guys and gals love it too! Have a wonderful week and stay tuned, working on my next 2 tracks!

John Hopkins Circle Drum and Bass Remix

Hello there legends! Back with a new stop on our journey, this time around the most volcanically active world in the solar system. I really enjoyed creating this one. I found a Humpback Whale calling in the Ocean on the internet and I wanted to imagine how the "fire Whales" living on IO would sound underneath the crackling surface. I found some atmospheric sounds that go with the rumbling calls of the "fire Whales", added an epic Bassline, found some kick and snares to go with our liquid journey, then added some nice piano notes to go with all what's going on. There are some other sounds finding their way into and out of the track. Overall I'm very pleased with the result and I really hope you will enjoy it! Much love! 

" Jupiter's rocky moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the solar system, with hundreds of volcanoes, some erupting lava fountains dozens of miles (or kilometers) high. Io’s remarkable activity is the result of a tug-of-war between Jupiter's powerful gravity and smaller but precisely timed pulls from two neighboring moons that orbit farther from Jupiter – Europa and Ganymede.
Io was discovered on Jan. 8, 1610, by Galileo Galilei. 

The discovery, along with three other Jovian moons, was the first time a moon was discovered orbiting a planet other than Earth. 

The discovery of the four Galilean satellites eventually led to the understanding that planets in our solar system orbit the Sun, instead of our solar system revolving around Earth. Galileo apparently had observed Io on Jan. 7, 1610, but had been unable to differentiate between Io and Europa until the next night.

Galileo originally called Jupiter's moons the Medicean planets, after the powerful Italian Medici family and referred to the individual moons numerically as I, II, III, and IV. Galileo's naming system would be used for a couple of centuries.

It wouldn't be until the mid-1800s that the names of the Galilean moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, would be officially adopted, and only after it became apparent that naming moons by number would be very confusing as new additional moons were being discovered.

In mythology, Io is a mortal woman transformed into a cow during a marital dispute between the Greek god Zeus – Jupiter in Roman mythology – and his wife, Juno. NASA’s Juno mission is named in honor of the goddess, who could peer through the clouds and expose her husband’s wrongdoings. The spacecraft also peers through clouds to reveal Jupiter’s secrets. "
 (  https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/moons/io/facts/  )

Hello there legends! Back with a new one, we're now orbiting Saturn and meeting some of its smaller moons on our journey through our solar system and beyond. I strayed a bit from my usual uploads, this one being a little bit more solid than liquid :)) I had a lot of fun experimenting with different kinds of rhythms, all within the spectrum of DnB, so I really hope you'll like what it sounds like after a few days of work. Much love and stay close, the next track is around the corner! 
" Janus is a potato-shaped moon with a mean radius of 55.6 miles (89.5 kilometers) and dimensions of 122 x 119 x 93 miles (196 x 192 x 150 kilometers, respectively).

Janus is extensively cratered with several craters larger than 19 miles (30 kilometers). Janus' prominent craters are named Castor, Phoebe, Idas and Lynceus.

This oblong moon orbits 94,000 miles (151,000 kilometers) away from Saturn, taking 17 hours to complete one orbit, in the gap between the F and G rings, but it doesn't do this alone. It actually shares its orbit with a sister moon named Epimetheus, in what is called a co-orbital condition or 1:1 resonance.

One moon orbits 31 miles (50 km) farther away from the planet than the other, taking more time to complete one turn around Saturn. This slight difference means the inner, faster moving moon starts to catch up to the other approximately every four Earth years. Interestingly, when this happens, the gravity interaction between the moons causes them to trade places between these inner and outer orbits. The closest they get is about 6,200 miles (15,000 km). This is the only such orbital configuration known in the solar system.

Janus and Epimetheus may have formed by the break-up of one moon. If so, it would have happened early in the life of the Saturn system since both moons have ancient cratered surfaces, many with soft edges because of dust. They also have some grooves (similar to grooves on the Martian moon Phobos) suggesting some glancing blows from other bodies. Together, the moons trail enough particles to generate a faint ring. However, except for very powerful telescopes, the region of their common orbit appears as a gap between Saturn's prominent F and G rings.

Janus and Epimetheus are the fifth and sixth moons in distance from Saturn. Both are phase locked with their parent; one side always faces toward Saturn. Being so close, they orbit in less than 17 hours. They are both thought to be composed of largely of water ice, but their density of less than 0.7 is much less than that of water. Thus, they are probably "rubble piles" -- each a collection of numerous pieces held together loosely by gravity. Each moon has dark, smoother areas, along with brighter areas of terrain. One interpretation of this is that the darker material evidently moves down slopes, leaving shinier material such as water ice on the walls of fractures. Their temperature is approximately -195 degrees Celsius (-319 degrees Fahrenheit). Their reflectivity (or albedo) of 0.7 to 0.8 in the visual range again suggests a composition largely of water ice.

Janus and Epimetheus share their orbits with a faint dust ring around Saturn, now called the Janus/Epimetheus Ring. This ring may be made of particles blasted off their surfaces by meteoroid impacts. 

The name Janus comes from the Roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings. He is usually represented as having one face to look forward and another to look back. The Romans may have partially adopted Janus from an Etruscan god, from the Greek god Hermes, or from both. His most apparent remnants in modern English are the month of January and the caretaker of doors and halls, the janitor.

Astronomers also refer to Janus as Saturn X and as S/1980 S1. " 
(  https://science.nasa.gov/saturn/moons/janus/  )

Janus

Heeello there legends! Felt cute, finished 2 tracks today, might edit later :)) Definitely had fun making this one, maybe the most fun yet :) Again, tried to stray a bit from my liquid stuff and came up with this! I really hope you will enjoy it! Much love and see you at the next stop! (not quite stop because we're always orbiting around the Moon or planet in question :D ) 
" Prometheus acts as a shepherding moon, constraining the extent of the inner edge of Saturn's F Ring. Prometheus is extremely irregular and has visible craters — some up to 12.4 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter. However, it is much less cratered than its nearby neighbors Pandora, Janus and Epimetheus. The density of Prometheus has been estimated to be low; it is probably a porous, icy body.

The potato-shaped moon is about 26.8 miles (43.1 kilometers) in mean radius, orbiting Saturn at a distance of 87,000 miles (139,000 kilometers), taking 14.7 hours to go around the planet.

Moons of Saturn were originally named for Greco-Roman Titans and descendants of the Titans. But as many new moons were discovered scientists began selecting names from more mythologies, including Gallic, Inuit and Norse stories.

Originally designated S/1980 S27, Prometheus [pro-MEE-thee-us] is named for the son of the Titan Iapetus and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus. He is best known in Greek mythology for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to humanity. "
(  https://science.nasa.gov/saturn/moons/prometheus/  )

Prometheus

Track created using Cubase Ai with help from a Kaossilator Pro synthesizer and a Novation Launchkey 61 MIDI keyboard. Hope you guys and girls enjoy. Love from Romania!

"Our home planet is the third planet from the Sun, and the only place we know of so far that’s inhabited by living things.

While Earth is only the fifth largest planet in the solar system, it is the only world in our solar system with liquid water on the surface. Just slightly larger than nearby Venus, Earth is the biggest of the four planets closest to the Sun, all of which are made of rock and metal.

The name Earth is at least 1,000 years old. All of the planets, except for Earth, were named after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. However, the name Earth is a Germanic word, which simply means “the ground.”"

( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/overview/ )

Terra

Hello legends! Track created with a Kaossilator Pro synthesizer and a Novation Launchkey 61 MIDI keyboard. Hope you guys and girls enjoy. Love from Romania!

"Jupiter has a long history of surprising scientists – all the way back to 1610 when Galileo Galilei found the first moons beyond Earth. That discovery changed the way we see the universe.

Fifth in line from the Sun, Jupiter is, by far, the largest planet in the solar system – more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined.

Jupiter's familiar stripes and swirls are actually cold, windy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm bigger than Earth that has raged for hundreds of years.

One spacecraft – NASA's Juno orbiter – is currently exploring this giant world."

( https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/overview/ )

Jupiter

Hello legends! EquilibriuM (Ilas Lucian) is a 34 year old  music producer from Timisoara, Romania .He started his passion for producing 5 years ago (2019) but he has always been in love with music. He wants to spread good vibes using his music to as many beautiful souls as he can, and he hopes you identify as one whilst reading this. His main focus is on liquid drum and bass made with beautiful piano notes and deep basslines. He is on a journey around our solar system and beyond and every release represents a stop on this journey, whether it is a Planet or a Moon. You can hear his music also on platforms like Spotify, Tidal, Deezer, Youtube, Apple Music. Never give up on your dream/passion. 
Love and hugs.

EquilibriuM

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