Posted on 01/12/2021 10:18:20 AM PST by nickcarraway
The Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has discovered an FM radio signal coming from the moon Ganymede. The find is a first-time detection from the moon.
Patrick Wiggins, one of NASA’s Ambassadors to Utah, says, “It’s not E.T. It’s more of a natural function.”
Juno was traveling across the polar region of Jupiter, where magnetic field lines connect to Ganymede, and that’s when it crossed the radio source. Scientifically, it is called a “decametric radio emission.”
Here on earth we know it as Wi-Fi. And we use it every day.
According to Britannica.com, Jupiter’s radio emissions were discovered in 1955, and over the last 66 years, more and more discoveries have been made about how the signals work.
Wiggins says, “A member of the Salt Lake Astronomical society once built an amateur radio telescope that could detect the electromagnetic radiation from Jupiter.”
Juno’s mission is to study how the planet Jupiter formed and how it evolved. According to NASA, “Juno will observe Jupiter’s gravity and magnetic fields, atmospheric dynamics and composition, and evolution.”
What caused the radio emissions from Jupiter’s moon? Again, aliens are not sending the signal. Electrons cause the signals. The electrons oscillate at a lower rate than they spin.
This causes the electrons to amplify radio waves very rapidly. The process has an interesting name, cyclotron maser instability (CMI). The electrons that generate the radio signal can also cause auroras in the far-ultraviolet spectrum – which was also observed by the camera on Juno.
What’s a NanoSat? BYU made one they’re calling ‘Spacecraft Selfie Cam’ The spacecraft saw the moon’s radio emission for only five seconds it was flying by at 50 km per second. That is a screaming 111,847 mph. Because Juno was flying so fast, the source of the radio transmission was at least 250 kilometers (155.3 miles) in order for the sensors to pick it up.
So even though this time it wasn’t an alien transmission, Wiggins says “I do believe life is out there, but I’m still waiting for evidence to prove it.”
The radio signal is being called a shorter relative to the same thing that causes the auroras here on earth.
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No Static At All!
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The best sounding version is a 24-bit/48khz mastering from the original studio master mix and available on HDTracks as a High Res download.
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Argh. You beat me to it. First thing that came to my mind! :-)
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Beat me to it.
hdtracks, cool. First I was aware of something like this.
“When the FM signal from the moon Ganymede was decided it said “BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE.”
Do you remember
Back in nineteen sixty-six?
Country Jesus, hillbilly blues
That’s where I learned my licks.
Oh, from coast to coast and line to line
In every county there
I’m talkin’ ‘bout that outlaw X
Is cuttin’ through the air.
Anywhere, y’all
Everywhere, y’all
I heard it, I heard it
I heard it on the X.
We can all thank Doctor B
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With lots of watts he took control
The first one of its kind.
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I heard it, I heard it
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Eventually, the duo started their own band - Toto. The song “Rossana” was about Jeff Porcaro’s affair with Rosanna Arquette.
I think there are more references to the song than any other reply on this thread.
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To play Hi-Res downloads, you need a special “software player” (PC/Apple) and an external DAC to feed the digital signal to for processing to analog.
Now there are many “audio computers” that can do play & process the 24-bit music files.
If done correctly, the Hi-Res files can get VERY, VERY close to the master tape.
Interesting conversation here, way over my head
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=119914.0
I know. LOL. I posted before reading the thread (I DID read the article though...ha ha ha.
elon musk’s tesla at a charging station...
It’s just Trump’s voter landside echoing off of Ganymede and bouncing back to us!! 😊
Is it playing classical music?
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