You may have heard of the music of the spheres, but NASA has discovered the song of the moons. Based on data returned by the unmanned Cassini spacecraft as it made its last Grand Finale orbits, space scientists have taken the radio signals generated by Saturn's moon Enceladus as it orbits through the giant planet's magnetic field lines and turned it into sounds of the dynamic interaction of plasma waves moving between planet and satellite.
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