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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 11:18 PM
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Sounds from an alien world
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 11:20 PM
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1. Sounded like wind.
Cool.

Do you think they'd tell us if it started going "Ack-Ack!"?
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LudwigVan Donating Member (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 11:25 PM
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2. It sounded like a typical Atari 2600 game.
Edited on Sat Jan-15-05 11:25 PM by LudwigVan
I could tell the second had to do with the landing.

I also thought about the fact that you have to have an atmosphere to hear sound, so the landing of the lunar modules during the Apollo missions were completely silent.

I'm really amazed by the fact that we have a recording of something so far from Earth.
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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 11:35 PM
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3. Titan is large enough to have an atmosphere. The second one is
Edited on Sat Jan-15-05 11:35 PM by lectrobyte
synthetic, i.e. processed radar signals.
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