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What Space Audio Exists? Plasma, Electromagnetic & Gravitational Waves | SSFX Space Sound Effects

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Channel: Martin Archer · 2017 · Science & Technology

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You may have come across space sounds other than those from SSFX, so what are they? Not strictly sound, this "space audio" is a often some form of plasma or electromagnetic wave and these can be quite complicated! More on space sounds at http://ssfx.qmul.ac.uk

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00:53 Sound in space
01:44 Forms of plasma wave physically
05:41 What plasma waves sound like near Earth
06:45 Plasma waves throughout the solar system
07:45 Electromagnetic space audio
09:00 Gravitational wave audio

Links for more information

SSFX
http://ssfx.qmul.ac.uk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNQjXaM87T8

European Space Agency sounds
https://soundcloud.com/esa
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Sounds_from_space

NASA Space Sounds
https://soundcloud.com/nasa
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/galleries/audio

Space Audio from the University of Iowa
http://space-audio.org/
https://www.youtube.com/user/VoyagerPWS

Plasma Wave Visualisations
https://sites.google.com/site/andrisvaivads/Andris_Vaivads/Plasma_waves


SSFX is funded by a Queen Mary University of London Centre for Public Engagement Large Award
Music by Unicorn Heads, Kevin MacLeod, Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions, www.bensound.com

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