Science of Noise in Solar System
Science of Noise in Solar System The "Twenty Thousand Hertz" podcast, named after the highest frequency that humans can hear, is a nod to all the audio phenomena we encounter on daily basis. The next episode is scheduled to be released today (April 4). In a recent episode, listeners get to travel from Mercury to Pluto, and learn how sound waves would change on different planets. NASA scientists on the podcast explained that sound would be unable to move through the vacuum of space. But on Venus, for example, the carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere would be so thick that if humans could go to the planet and listen to its storms, they would sound as if they were muffled. On Mars, the Red Planet's atmosphere is thinner than Earth's, so there would be very few molecules for sound to move, the scientists said. Each 15-minute episode is hosted by Dallas Taylor, a sound designer who has been involved in mixing sound for live news, television shows, sports programming ...