Selected Sounds of Space

Samples of Don Gurnett's favorite sounds of space

These are some of Professor Don Gurnett's favorite sounds of space, recorded by University of Iowa instruments on a variety of spacecraft over the past 50 years.

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Description	Audio	Spectrogram	Video
Earth whistlers
Earth multi-hop whistlers
Earth proton whistlers
Earth chorus
Earth auroral kilometric radiation
Jupiter whistlers
Jupiter chorus
Jupiter electron cyclotron emissions
Jupiter bow shock crossing
Jupiter upstream ion acoustic waves
Earth nose whistler in stereo
Earth AKR in stereo

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