SATURN Sounds Part 1: Moons And Rings Translated Into Music

Saturn's major moons and ring system are converted into music and provide a soundtrack for the Cassini spacecraft's final plunge into the planet. A note is played for each moon's orbit with pitches determined by their actual orbital frequencies, but increased by 27 octaves so that they can be heard by human ears. The same pitch scaling is applied to the entire ring system while the volume of the resulting tone follows the observed brightness variations of the rings. The final sound is created by combining the oscillation frequencies of Saturn itself.

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Created by Matt Russo, Dan Tamayo and Andrew Santaguida 2017.
Numerical simulation and moon animation performed with REBOUND (rebound.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
Ring art by Alpha-Element (alpha-element.deviantart.com)
Background image and Saturn animation created with Universe Sandbox ² (universesandbox.com)
Ring mosiac created with images taken by the Cassini Spacecraft (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)
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