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Radio 4 Extra,3 mins

The Rings of Saturn

Available for over a year

Tune in as the Cassini spacecraft crosses the icy rings of Saturn and picks up radio waves from aurorae at the planet’s poles. Lucie Green finds out what astronomers have learnt from these space sounds. These sounds have been created by the University of Iowa using data from NASA’s Cassini mission. Image of courtesy NASA_JPL

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