There is no sound in space
RE: Did You Know That Saturn's Rings Make A Super Creepy Sound?
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Did You Know That Saturn's Rings Make A Super Creepy Sound?
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Well, yes -- that's what I'd always been told. So what is the sound?
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It's actually the sound of the radio waves emitted from radiation. NYT has a pretty good write up on the matter. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/science/nasa-cassini-sound-recording-saturn.html
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Sound is energy passing through a medium ( air, water, etc.) Because there is no medium in space , only vacuum, sound can't travel. But there are plenty of other energies running through space, so it's no surprise the rings emmit waves.
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Or is there? Looks like a case of if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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Sound doesn't travel in a vacuum, and space is a vacuum.
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That's correct, and rockets cannot propel in a space/vacuum, either. But I digress.
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