Hear the Solar Wind: Parker Probe Sounds
Summary
The Josh Universe - Space Discord Server announced a new post detailing how the Parker Solar Probe measures pressure waves in the solar wind. Since the probe lacks a microphone, its instrument data on wave frequencies and amplitudes was converted into audible sound clips. This allows the community to "hear" the plasma waves resulting from particle interactions with magnetic and electric fields in space.
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The Parker Solar Probe measures pressure waves in the particles that make up solar wind. In our daily lives, we hear pressure waves as sound.
The Parker Solar Probe does not have a microphone on board, but its instruments can measure the frequencies and amplitudes of these waves in the solar wind.
Those wave measurements were then turned into sound waves, creating clips of what the waves might sound like to the human ear.
The plasma waves that Parker Solar Probe is capturing are the result of particles interacting with magnetic and electric fields.
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