“…A NASA spacecraft has just beamed back a beautiful song sung by our own planet…”

 

 

 

NASA spacecraft records ‘Earthsong’

by Dr. Tony Phillips

 

“It’s called chorus,” explains Craig Kletzing of the University of Iowa. “This is one of the clearest examples we’ve ever heard.” Chorus is an electromagnetic phenomenon caused by plasma waves in Earth’s radiation belts. For years, ham radio operators on Earth have been listening to them from afar. Now, NASA’s twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes are traveling through the region of space where chorus actually comes from—and the recordings are out of this world…”

 

 

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