{"id":4779,"date":"2012-04-08T08:50:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T22:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2012-04-08T08:51:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T22:51:02","slug":"sounds-from-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/science\/sounds-from-outer-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds from outer space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4785\" title=\"north-pole-venus\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/north-pole-venus1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/north-pole-venus1.gif 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/north-pole-venus1-300x185.gif 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/north-pole-venus1-250x154.gif 250w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/north-pole-venus1-119x74.gif 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The North Pole of Venus. Credit: SSV, MIPL, Magellan Team, NASA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Humans would sound like bass Smurfs if they travelled to Venus.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Venus&#8217; dense atmosphere would cause the vocal chords to vibrate more slowly, giving you a deep bass voice. But the speed of sound is much faster than on Earth, which would trick our brains into thinking the speaker is much smaller.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have any recorded sounds from other planets, despite years of space exploration. But a team of scientists from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/\">The University of Southampton<\/a> in the UK have been creating the sounds of other worlds using physics and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>They have modelled the effects of different atmospheres, pressures and temperatures on the human voice for Venus, Mars and Titan (Saturn&#8217;s largest moon). They have also created the sounds of lightning on Venus, whirlwinds on Mars and a methane\/ethane &#8216;waterfall&#8217; on Titan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/multimedia\/pub\/42400.php?from=208983\">audio simulation of a methane\/ethane fall on Titan. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are confident of our calculations; we have been rigorous in our use of physics taking into account atmospheres, pressure and fluid dynamics,&#8221; lead researcher Professor Leighton said. &#8220;This is the real deal &#8220;\u201c it&#8217;s as close as we can get to the real sound of another world until a future probe or astronaut actually goes there and listens to what it really sounds like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is also trying to work out what music would sound like on another planet. &#8220;If astronauts are based on Mars for several months, they might just take musical instruments along, or build one there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The out-of-this-world sounds can be heard in the UK this Easter, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intech-uk.com\/folders\/planetarium\/\">Astrium Planetarium<\/a> at INTECH near Winchester.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/mediacentre\/news\/2012\/apr\/12_59.shtml\">The University of Southampton <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans would sound like bass Smurfs if they travelled to Venus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,36,8,27,9],"tags":[196,859,848,155,197],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mars","category-news","category-science","category-space","category-technology","tag-bizarre-lab","tag-mars","tag-news","tag-space-2","tag-venus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}