What do planets sound like? Hear the sounds picked up by NASA satellites as they passed by each planet

From the mighty roar of Jupiter to the windy howl of the surface of Mars, our celestial neighbors are anything but silent.

So what do the planets sound like? To reveal the elusive “sounds,” scientists converted the radio emissions collected during the various missions into sound waves.

Hear the chilling cacophony of plasma waves and every other planet in our giant solar system in the video below.

The collection includes everything from the roaring rattle of lightning on Jupiter to the eerie bang of starlight.

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NASA’s Perseverance rover has been recording the “eerie sounds of Mars” since its arrival in February 2021.

Sounds from the Red Planet are made possible thanks to a pair of microphones on the rover that make it look like “you’re actually standing there,” NASA said.

The rover has been rolling in the Jezero crater for eight months, looking for signs of ancient life, while also taking beautiful pictures and recording sound.

Perseverance is the first craft to record the sound of the Red Planet, letting us hear not only the wind on another world, but also information about its atmosphere.

Analysis of Mars’ sounds revealed it has “strong bass vibrations,” say researchers at L’Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie in Toulouse, France.

Audio recordings have also helped NASA engineers monitor the engines, wheels and general operation of both Perseverance and the Ingenuity helicopter.

NASA also captured eerie sounds emanating from Venus’ upper atmosphere during a close-by flight of the Parker Solar Probe launched to study the sun.

The natural radio signal helps scientists study the atmosphere of “Earth’s less hospitable twin,” according to the NASA team responsible for the probe.

The space agency picked up the sounds as the Parker probe made its “closest-ever flight” of the planet, just 517 miles above the surface.

NASA’s Goddard Space Center pilots the solar probe, which flew past Venus for the third time on July 11, 2020, when it detected the radio signal and its eerie soundtrack.

In 2019, astronomers recorded for the first time the eerie haunted “song” sung by Earth’s magnetic field when hit by a storm of charged particles sent from the sun.

The “tune” is a sonic version of the stunning aurora light show seen near the poles when charged particles interact with Earth’s atmosphere.

The “song” was heard by experts at the European Space Agency (ESA), who analyzed the magnetic waves produced when these “solar winds” pound the Earth.

They converted the results into audible frequencies, producing an unusual sound that they said was more like “the sound effects of a science fiction movie than a natural phenomenon.”

The psychedelic song was identified after the team sent four spacecraft through the so-called “foreshock” region of the Earth’s magnetic field, which faces the sun and is the first part affected by incoming solar storms.

Normally, the constant stream of charged particles that make up the solar wind causes the foreshock to emit simple magnetic waves that — when converted to audio waves — sound like a single, low-pitched musical note.

However, when a solar storm hits Earth, its impact against the magnetic field’s foreshock causes this “music” to rise in pitch — and become much more complex.

The same year, NASA released a chilling compilation of the “sounds” of space, which brought to life the radio emissions picked up by its spacecraft as they travel through the solar system.

The space agency released its “Spooky Sounds from Across the Solar System” playlist ahead of Halloween.

The compilation contained 22 fragments of “space noises,” revealing a stunning new perspective on the planets and other mysterious objects in our solar system.

“Rising to the depths of our universe, brave spacecraft roam the cosmos capturing images of celestial wonders,” NASA said.

“Some spacecraft have instruments that can pick up radio emissions. When scientists convert them into sound waves, the results are eerie to hear.’

The listing includes a snippet of the moment when the Juno spacecraft crossed the boundary of Jupiter’s magnetic field on June 24, 2016, recording its remarkable encounter with the bow shock for two hours.

It also reveals the surf-like roar of plasma waves rippling through space captured by EMFISIS instrument aboard NASA’s Van Allen Probes.

And the playlist features numerous samples of Saturn’s radio emissions collected by its now-discontinued Cassini spacecraft.