Saturn, Your Other Home for Hippy Noise

Saturn Electrostatic Discharges is neither an STD nor the name of one of WFMU's 2-6 a.m. overnight radio programs. It is, from what I have crudely gathered a bunch of radio racket that occurs when lightning is in Saturn's atmosphere. Then there's those hot gases which seem to really stir shit up, allowing scientists from the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn to study just what the hell those 3 rings (conveniently called A, B and C) are doing there. Fascinating as that may be, we just like the creepy noise. Here's a source for your space audio fix, and here's a recent recording (mp3) from our most blingingest neighbor in the solar system.

Comments

[William Berger]

Thanks Pseu. I live for this shit.

[Gumbo Stu]

Excellent - they really knew what space sounded like in those old 50s movies, huh?

[RStv]

Wow. Stolen samples for my next rekkid, here we come!