As reported by The Gurdian, Thursday (12/22/2021), a 50-second audio recording was obtained from data collected from the Juno spacecraft on June 7, 2021 ago.
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Director of the Space Program Division of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and also an investigator for space missions, Dr. Scott Bolton says you can see a change around the midpoint of the higher frequencies around the tape.
It was the closest ever flight to the moon by a spacecraft since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made its penultimate close approach in May 2000.
“The soundtrack is wild enough to make you feel as if you’re riding along as Juno sails past Ganymede for the first time in more than two decades,” said Juno Principal Investigator Scott Bolton.
“If you listen carefully, you can hear a sudden change to a higher frequency around the center of the recording, indicating the entry of a different region in Ganymede’s magnetosphere.”
Detailed analysis and modeling of data from Waves is still ongoing to decipher some of the mysterious sounds.
“It’s possible that the change in frequency shortly after closest approach was caused by a shift from the night side to the daytime on Ganymede,” said William Kurth of the University of Iowa, co-investigator for the Wave investigation.
It is the first spacecraft to peer under a thick cloud cover to answer questions about the gas giants and the origins of our solar system.
Previously planned to plunge into Jupiter after completing its 35th and final orbit on July 30, 2021, the Juno mission has now been extended to 2025.
His new mission will see him perform a triple close flyby month Jupiter’s largest.
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