The Juno spacecraft, which mediated NASA’s largest Jupiter discovery, has continued to share important information about the planet since it started its mission in 2016. This time, the vehicle was conducting research on the planet’s largest moon, Ganymede. However, this time he sent a mysterious data that was also shared on YouTube.
Juno shares 50 second audio of Ganymede
Continuing its research, the Juno spacecraft shared an interesting data about Ganymede, the largest moon of both Jupiter and the solar system. Scott Bolton, principal investigator at the Juno mission of the Southwest Research Institute, presented the 50-second audio recording at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
The audio data collected from Juno’s Ganymede flight will allow important comparisons to be made between the atmospheres of Jupiter and Earth. The recording of the audio file was performed by the recording device called Waves on Juno. The recorder collected magnetic radio waves produced in the planet’s magnetosphere. He then created the audio file by shifting the frequencies into the vocal range to make the sound track.
Juno performed the sound file of Ganymede during his 34th voyage. At the time the sound recording was created, the vehicle was exactly 1,038 kilometers away from the satellite. In addition, the vehicle was traveling at a speed of 67,000 kilometers per hour. Detailed analysis and modeling of the data sent from the Waves voice recorder is still ongoing.
Juno gets its energy from the Sun
Juno, the spacecraft launched by the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) into space in 2011, reached Jupiter in July 2016 after a 5-year journey. The spacecraft, which travels the distance of 2.8 billion kilometers between Earth and Jupiter at a speed of 260 thousand kilometers per hour on autopilot, continues to collect information about Jupiter.
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