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PIA25030: Audio of Juno's Ganymede Flyby
Radio emissions collected during Juno's June 7, 2021, flyby of Jupiter's moon Ganymede are presented here, both visually and in sound.
 Target Name:  Jupiter
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Juno 
 Spacecraft:  Juno
 Instrument:  Waves 
 Product Size:  781 x 443 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  University of Iowa 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA25030.tif (524.7 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA25030.jpg (41.85 kB)  

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This 50-second animation provides an auditory as well as visual glimpse at data collected by Juno's Waves instrument as the spacecraft flew past the Jovian moon Ganymede on June 7, 2021. The abrupt change to higher frequencies around the midpoint of the recording represents the spacecraft's move from one region of Ganymede's magnetosphere to another.

The audio track is made by shifting the frequency of those emissions – which range from 10 to 50 kHz – into the lower audio range.

The animation is shorter than the duration of Juno's flyby because the Waves data is edited onboard to reduce telemetry requirements.

More information about Juno is at https://www.nasa.gov/juno and https://missionjuno.swri.edu. For more about this finding and other science results, see https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/science-findings.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/Univ of Iowa

Image Addition Date:
2021-12-17