The enigmatic sounds captured by the Juno Jupiter NASA probe – BBC World

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Image caption The probe Juno made an epic journey of five years to reach Jupiter. For a year and a half it will study the atmosphere, structure and origin of the planet.

How the giant planet in the solar system sounds?

After completing his epic journey of five years to Jupiter, the probe Juno NASA began exploring the secrets of the fifth planet from the Sun and larger.

Everything about Jupiter is given to superlatives.

How the giant planet in the solar system sounds?

it is so large that it could hold 1300 Land , has colossal storms, winds of over 600 km / h tour such speed that functions as a constantly bouncing superhonda space dust and rocks.

Juno is built like a real armored tank. Its instruments will study the composition of the planet and its atmosphere, are protected from the Jovian radiation by a titanium capsule.

The probe made 36 orbits around Jupiter and completed the first on August 27.

in addition to capturing images of the planet’s north pole, one of its instruments, Waves, recorded radio signals associated with its intense auroras.

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image caption This NASA image shows Jupiter’s auroras .

The signals were transformed into audible frequencies. The map developed by NASA that can see in the video above shows their intensity, indicating their highest points in orange and red colors.

For the first time we can “listen” to the first planet that was formed in the Solar system and reputedly maintains its main characteristics since its inception.

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Image caption captured by Voyager 1 in 1979 of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter image. Juno can make more accurate measurements. The spot is a large vortex or swirl whose diameter is twice that of Earth and could exist for 300 years.

Their study could help understand the early solar system .

The frequency of signals Juno go 7-140 kHz and what you hear is the product of 13 hours of recordings that began as soon as the probe completed its first approach to the planet.

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Image caption The Jupiter’s radiation is so strong that its instruments will not hold more than a year and a half despite being protected by a titanium capsule. the end of the mission to February 2018, it is predicted about.

is scheduled to Juno study the planet until the end of the mission, near February 2018.

then the strong radiation from Jupiter be damaged instruments and will be difficult to control the probe, so NASA will enter the planet’s atmosphere where it will burn .