Cassini’s Musical Death Plunge

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Cassini’s Musical Death Plunge

Scientists have created music out of the rhythmic orbits of Saturn’s moons and rings but converting them into musical octaves. This was done to celebrate the spacecraft Cassini’s final voyage around Saturn.

On 15th September, Cassini will plunge into the planet as its lifespan comes to an end. The plunge will be done by the scientist to avoid it contaminating any of the moons.

Postdoctoral Researcher from Canada’s Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Matt Russo said, “To celebrate the Grand Finale of NASA’s Cassini mission next month, we converted Saturn’s moons and rings into two pieces of music.”

He further added, “Wherever there is resonance there is music, and no other place in the solar system is more packed with resonances than Saturn.”

Another postdoctoral researcher from CITA, Dan Tanmayo explained how it works, “Saturn’s magnificent rings act like a sounding board that launches waves at locations that harmonize with the planet’s many moons, and some pairs of moons are themselves locked in resonances.”

The researchers have increased the natural orbital frequencies of six large inner moons of Saturn by 27 octaves to make musical notes. Russo explained it simply, “What you hear are the actual frequencies of the moons, shifted into the human hearing range.”

Tanmayo developed a state of the art numerical simulation of the moon system that can play the resulting notes each time one of the moons completes an orbit.

Cassini’s death is heard as a final crash of a final piano chord which was heavily inspired by the song “A Day in the Life” by The Beatles.

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