Voyager's 'Interstellar Plasma Music' Composed By Sun | Video
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 15:00
in Astronomy & Space
Voyager 1's 'plasma wave instrument' detects electrons that are excited when solar storms interact with the ionized gas that surrounds it. They occur at frequencies up to a few thousand hertz, so it can be translated to audio via loudspeakers.