The Eerie Sounds of Saturn's Radio Emissions

As if competing for a teacher’s attention in a noisy schoolroom full of children, Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus screamed out at the Cassini spacecraft during flybys in February and March of 2005. Th...

"Saturn Calling" Musician Jeff Oster turns the extraterrestrial songs of the ringed planet into beautiful New Age Jazz.

Click here to play sounds of Saturn's radio emissions, which have changes in frequency (718 Kb Wave Sound). Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions, which have been monitored by the Cassin...

This colorful spectrogram represents data collected by Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument as it crossed through Saturn's D ring on May 28, 2017.

Radar echoes of a new world were captured by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe as it descended onto Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Huygens hitched a ride aboard the Cassini spacecraft until ...

This recording is a laboratory reconstruction of the sounds heard by Huygens' microphones.

This audio clip was created from radio signals received by the radio and plasma wave science instrument on the Cassini spacecraft.

This recording is a laboratory reconstruction of the sounds heard by a microphone on the Huygens probe as it descended to Titan's surface. Several sounds, taken at different times during the descen...

Listen to our playlist filled with new “moans” and “whistles” from our universe that would scare the most ghoulish of creatures.

From the far, far reaches of the Saturnian system, the Cassini spacecraft captures the most peculiar, chilling and downright hair-raising sounds of the ringed world’s intense radio emissions.  The ...

The Cassini spacecraft captured radio emissions believed to come from a large lightning storm on Saturn that occurred on January 23 and 24, 2006. Those radio emissions were converted into an audio ...

In "Saturn Calling," musician Jeff Oster turns the extraterrestrial songs of the ringed planet into beautiful jazz.   

Radar echoes received by Huygens.

These are the radio sounds of Saturn's rotation and the first sounds of Saturn from the Cassini mission. On approach to Saturn, data obtained by the Cassini spacecraft posed a puzzling question: Ho...

New research from the up-close Grand Finale orbits of NASA’s Cassini mission shows a surprisingly powerful interaction of plasma waves moving from Saturn to its moon Enceladus. 

Inspired by the Cassini-Huygens Mission last year, James Durham composed this song featuring excerpts from the press conference just following the Huygens probe's successful landing in January 2005.

Happy Halloween, space explorers. Perhaps you could carve a few moments out of your busy schedule to join me for a haunted hayride to some of the more disturbing destinations of your sinister littl...

Before settling into orbit around Saturn in 2004, the Cassini spacecraft faced a white-knuckle ride through the plane of the planet’s rings. The spacecraft was bombarded with about 100,000 impacts ...

In this episode of Gravity Assist, NASA’s Planetary Science Director Jim Green talks with Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker about the ringed planet, its fascinating moons and propeller-like f...

Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. Skull Valley, Utah.

​Venus and Jupiter part ways following their March 1 rendezvous, while Ceres reaches opposition, and is worth hunting for using binoculars.

Look for the charioteer constellation, Auriga, along with two easy-to-locate star clusters, M41 and M47. And watch as Jupiter and Venus get close.

This visual reveals how the magnetic field associated with the Psyche spacecraft distorts the ambient magnetic field to be measured.

The Psyche spacecraft includes many unavoidable magnetic field sources, which must be accounted for to measure the magnetic field signature of the Psyche metal-rich asteroid.

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