Full moon

In season six, meet researchers who are using sounds from the Sun to learn unlock new details about our star, explore the “dark side” of the universe with scientists who study dark matter and dark energy, and get a behind-the-scenes look at the first NASA mission to deliver an asteroid sample to Earth. A new episode drops every Tuesday.

NASA's Curious Universe: Introducing Season Six

It's turning green
and i can see you
see you for me

in the blue skies 
and the red walls
give it all, all, all for
soft waves

I 
Can
Breath 

I kept it in my hands 
but two arms unfolded it
i'm here to sit still
sit still 
sit still, i will sit still

Here on the ocean floor
i will sit still
I, i 
i can see you
see you for me


I can breath

Oceanfloor

Lookin Fly Mothman

Hear intriguing radio waves that our Cassini spacecraft collected near Jupiter in January 2001.

Jupiter Sounds 2001

On approach to Saturn, data obtained by the Cassini spacecraft are already posing a puzzling question: How long is the day on Saturn?
Credit: NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency

Scientists Find That Saturn's Rotation Period Is A Puzzle

And beware the weird radio emissions Galileo gathered from Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede.

Beware of Jupiter’s Largest Moon Ganymede

Before settling into orbit around Saturn, Cassini faced a white-knuckle ride through the plane of the planet’s rings. When converted into an audio file, the interstellar cacophony is reminiscent of a hellstorm on Earth.

Cassini Shields Up

These melodious tones are created at a special frequency in a plasma with a magnetic field. The frequency is set by the number of electrons in a given volume (the electron density) and the strength of the magnetic field. Hence, the frequency of these waves, called upper hybrid waves, can provide a very accurate measure of the density of the plasma; a fundamental property of the Jovian environment of interest to scientists. These emissions were acquired by Voyager 2 as it passed through the outer magnetosphere in 1979.

Full moon

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