Menu

Topics

Connect

Comments

Want to discuss? Please read our Commenting Policy first.

NASA’s Halloween playlist features the universe’s spookiest sounds

WATCH ABOVE: NASA's playlist of spooky sounds from space – Oct 31, 2017

If you’re hoping to be spooked out this Halloween, NASA has you covered.

Story continues below advertisement

The space agency has released a playlist on SoundCloud, featuring noises captured by spacecrafts from the “depths of our universe.”

READ MORE: Astronomers discover super-hot world where it snows sunscreen

“Some spacecraft have instruments capable of capturing radio emissions. When scientists convert these to sound waves, the results are eerie to hear,” NASA explained.

The playlist features sounds of howling planets, plasma waves and a comet encounter.

WATCH: NASA’s Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft faces fiery finish

Sounds of Jupiter, for example, were captured in 1996 when the Galileo spacecraft made its first flyby of the planet’s largest moon.

Story continues below advertisement

Another recording — Sounds of a Comet Encounter — features sounds of rocks and dust particles colliding with the Stardust Aircraft, as comet Tempel 1 flies by on Feb. 14, 2011.

READ MORE: Mars researchers emerge after 8 months of isolation on Hawaii volcano

The sounds are spooky, but that’s not all that makes them worthy of a listen. They also offer insight into what the universe sounds like.

The 22-track list also features sounds from Earth’s atmosphere, ultra-cold helium near the North Pole, and the spacecraft Cassini moving through Saturn’s rings.

Have a listen here. 

Advertisement

You are viewing an Accelerated Mobile Webpage.

View Original Article