"Earth's Chorus" captured by NASA's RBSP spacecraft [VIDEO]
Posted by Nix on in category Satellites and space missions
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The 'chorus' phenomenon is well known by scientists, which is a cluster of brief, rising-frequency tones that sound like the chorus of birds singing at sunrise. Energetic particles in the magnetosphere emit radio waves that are audible to humans. Recently launched NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission's (RBSP) instrumentation captured an instance of the event.
More similar audio files are available at astrosurf.
Source:SPACE, Astrosurf
Featured image: NASA/Jacob Bortnik