Have you ever thought about what it sounds on jupiter

Submitted by Western_Home6746 t3_10j18x5 in space

Can you imagine what it would sound like when millions of storms going on at the same time? On top of that the atmosphere is very thick and relatively dry. Thick atmosphere means the sounds waves propagate more than it would here on Earth.

On the moon you don't really hear anything because there's no atmosphere. But Jupiter though... I bet it sounds millions of times scarier than the scariest sound you've heard before.

Those YouTube videos by Nasa that says "this is how Jupiter sounds like". That's not really what you would hear when you're inside Jupiter. That's just the magnetosphere transcribed to audible frequency. I wish one day we can actually here what goes on inside the planets.

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TLRsBurnerAccount t1_j5i3n6v wrote

Well, considering the planet itself is in essence one preposterously large storm, I imagine it'd sound very windy

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JuuzoLenz t1_j5la7la wrote

dude returns inside the floating station to his friends. It’s fucking windy out there!

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Jassida t1_j5kz8t0 wrote

It’s like how a stiff breeze sounds to my cats coming through the letterbox. Absolutely terrifying

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hbHPBbjvFK9w5D t1_j5olyi9 wrote

I suspect I wouldn't hear anything at all, as my eardrums would get blown out pretty quickly by the changes in air pressure.

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whatsagoinon1 t1_j5ltnpb wrote

Wind makes no sound if it has nothing to hit.

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ronnyhugo t1_j5m13w0 wrote

The wind hits the ears that hear the wind.

PS: And by the way soundwaves are generated as long as any gas isn't traveling at uniform velocity and direction. Same as how waves on water happen without land.

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jfitzger88 t1_j5m2zzp wrote

They meant if you were travelling precisely with the same velocity and vector as the wind you wouldn't hear it. Because then the wind isn't hitting anything since it is relatively at rest with your hearing instruments/ears.

I got you u/whatsagoinon1

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ronnyhugo t1_j5m74zk wrote

>They meant if you were travelling precisely with the same velocity and vector as the wind you wouldn't hear it.

Happens all the time when skiing.

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daniil___ t1_j5hz5cb wrote

I'm curious if it would blow your ear drums out or not. Surely?

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Comfortable_Mango_11 t1_j5id48s wrote

The good news is you wouldn't notice the discomfort of your eardrums going pop (permanently) because the radiation, atmospheric pressure, massively subzero temperatures and the inhospitable gasses themselves would have killed you well in advance!

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Bipogram t1_j5kcdqg wrote

At the 1bar altitude it's 180K.

Might want to wrap up.

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MsGorteck t1_j5logyz wrote

What does this mean?

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artgriego t1_j5loxqv wrote

At the height where the pressure is equal to that of Earth's atmosphere, the temperature is 180 Kelvin...meaning -93 Celsius. So pretty chilly.

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Ackapus t1_j5luguz wrote

Hmm... do we have any idea what the pressure is at the altitude band averaging 20-30C? Or, heck, even 5-40C? Still tolerable with the right clothes.

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left_lane_camper t1_j5lwaln wrote

Judging from this graph the temperature would be around 300K where the pressure is ~5 Atm. Pressures of ~5 Atm are found underwater on earth at depths of ~150 feet or so, which is routinely achieved by divers, including saturation divers who live at depths like that (or greater) for weeks at a time.

So definitely survivable, and even comfortable. Neglecting the chemical environment and the wind, of course. But you can be protected from a harsh chemical environment with some pretty simple coverings and depending on the variability of the wind you might be able to ride along with it in a way that's not too uncomfortable.

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Bipogram t1_j5m2xgj wrote

<nods>

A positive-pressure suit purged with your favoured blend of N2/O2 will suffice.

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MsGorteck t1_j5lul9d wrote

Oh, thanks. I thought you ment Kalvin, but the rest made no sense. Thank you.

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MsGorteck t1_j5lo4bb wrote

Good to know. Here I was thinking Jupiter was habitable.

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dickbutt_md t1_j5lxryj wrote

I feel like no one in this thread knows that Jupiter doesn't have a surface.

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DukeElliot t1_j5m0qn8 wrote

Sounds like the jury is still out on a solid surface https://www.space.com/18388-what-is-jupiter-made-of.html

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dickbutt_md t1_j5m2vb1 wrote

I wouldn't consider a solid core to be a solid surface, though.

This is a semantic distinction, though, at this point we would be arguing about what to call whatever is there, not a disagreement about what is actually there.

Though I'd prefer to distinguish between the core and the "surface" such as it is, I do think there's a reasonable argument to be made that "surface" should be identified as "whatever is solid." The problem with this terminology is that it doesn't really recognize any difference between gas giants and rocky planets, which I'd argue is a useful thing to do.

But, when it comes to what's actually there, I think we agree.

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DukeElliot t1_j5mbi1e wrote

There is a sentence in that article that says “While some theorize that the core is a hot molten ball of liquid, other research indicates that it could be a solid rock 14 to 18 times the mass of the Earth” referring to the core

Would “solid rock” not mean a solid surface in this context?

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Bipogram t1_j5mhk4m wrote

Over which is an ocean of hypercompressed hydrogen at essentially the same density as the rock below.

The only transition is one of composition (mumble: and both seismic speeds) rather than density - which we seen in the terrestrial oceans.

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ghostoftheai t1_j5neitn wrote

So if it’s as dense as rock can you walk on it or is that not how it works?

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Bipogram t1_j5p5m64 wrote

We can walk on things because they're rigid solids.

But I doubt that there's a nicely defined discontinuity between the metallic hydrogen ocean and some rock.

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dickbutt_md t1_j5nsyid wrote

The surface of a gas giant is defined separately from the core, as the article says: "...there is no solid ground, the surface of Jupiter is defined as the point where the atmospheric pressure is equal to that of Earth."

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MsGorteck t1_j5lz950 wrote

So the metors that plowed into Jupiter years ago just went through? I thought, while small, that in the center there would be a solid something. Not big, because of all the weight and pressure, but something.

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Bipogram t1_j5m1naw wrote

No - they didn't "just go through" - they encountered gas that became increasingly denser as one sinks into Jupiter.

There probably is a solid core of rock, but before then you encounter multi-bar pressures, and densities exceeding that of common fluids here.

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decomposition_ t1_j5pav9n wrote

I wonder if there are layers before the core that have some amounts of solids settled in above higher density gases. So not that it’s a surface but that it’s a layer of solid (even if it’s a dusty consistency) above denser gases

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Bipogram t1_j5pdgoh wrote

Here are some of the best models we have of Jupiter's near-core:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.07436.pdf

p12 allows for both a sharp discontinuity and a gradual 'fade' from metallic hydrogen to rock. The data we have cannot distinguish between those models.

"The existence of a diluted core, or a steep heavy-element gradient inside Jupiter is actually consistent with formation models of Jupiter (see section 4.3 for details). Giant planet formation models in the core accretion scenario (e.g., Pollack et al., 1996) suggest that once the core mass reaches ∼ 1 − 2M⊕ the accreted solid material (heavy elements) vaporise and remain in the planetary envelope (e.g., Stevenson, 1982). This leads to a structure in which the deep interior is highly enriched with heavy-elements, with no sharp transition between the core and the inner envelope (e.g., Helled & Stevenson, 2017 and references therein)."

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Bipogram t1_j5m1sfu wrote

It is - for certain definitions of habitable.

If you don't mind living in a balloon-lofted city, and having a somewhat higher radiation does, it's quite the place.

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XanthicStatue t1_j5mbdo9 wrote

Phewww I was really nervous about my eardrums there for a second. I’ll go ahead and cross that off my list of fears.

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No_Manufacturer4427 t1_j5i6qxs wrote

i think so. human evolution has only adapted so much to natural sounds, where we could only take about ~130dB, where thunder is around ~180dB. I think it would destroy our ears, but thankfully we would only feel it for a split second before the storms rip us to shreds :)

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Fit-Firefighter-329 t1_j5k1gag wrote

It would be like the ultimate Iron Maiden concert - except you probably wouldn't be able to get a 'Jupiter Rocks the Solar System!' t-shirt afterward. Bummer.

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pandaappleblossom t1_j5jb13g wrote

i'm curious too. its hard to imagine just because of all of the incompatibilities to human life there, but i dont think that it would.

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theBoxHog t1_j5k9onr wrote

Yes it would, 100%. Our delicate little eardrums could not withstand that pressure.

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doyouevenIift t1_j5m07dr wrote

It depends where you are in the atmosphere. At some height, the pressure is going to be comparable to Earth’s atmosphere

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Contadini t1_j5icroc wrote

It would probably be loud enough to deafen you instantly., not as loud as the sun though. The sun would sound like you are in the middle of a nuclear bomb explosion.

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SirMaximBelov t1_j5j2q7g wrote

Maybe even 2 nuclear bomb explosions explosions

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Other-Weakness-9177 t1_j5ja5dj wrote

Why not 3?

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carressingcarro t1_j5jb68d wrote

I think that's reasonable, yeah.

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Zavax t1_j5k2law wrote

How about 4?

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space-sage t1_j5k6yjx wrote

I could see that as a very real possibility

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LLuerker t1_j5jfefr wrote

The sun is loud AF. If there was atmosphere to propagate the sound from 93 million miles away, the sun would be around 100 decibels loud on earths surface. As loud as a concert or jackhammer just outside your window

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shyouko t1_j5jxvwe wrote

Any source or hints on how this is calculated?

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Nrksbullet t1_j5jyo89 wrote

It's from the documentary 'Rick and Morty', visualized as the Sun screaming.

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LLuerker t1_j5jz30w wrote

I just used Google, but the first handful of sources claim the same number. Just number crunching basically

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artgriego t1_j5lp8zm wrote

Given how bright it is, at a distance of 93 MILLION miles...I believe it.

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[deleted] t1_j5lclym wrote

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left_lane_camper t1_j5lx083 wrote

Those calculations assume a lossless atmosphere and that the only attenuation is geometric. Adding in attenuation leads to full thermalization surprisingly close to the photosphere.

Of course, if there were a medium to transport that sound, then it would effectively mean that the sun were just a much larger star, and that medium itself would be turbulent and noisy.

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Devlos00 t1_j5m5pwz wrote

Would that mean that stars like Mu Cephei would be even that much loader. That stars radius is 1000x the size of our sun and it shines 100000x brighter than our sun. Would there be any stars out there that we could hear is sound traveled though space or is everything too far no matter it’s size.

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602Zoo t1_j5kf06v wrote

I read somewhere that at even at 1 au distance the sun would be as loud as a jet at takeoff every second. If sounds could travel through a vacuum.

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Roland_Moorweed t1_j5iqncr wrote

This is, in a small facet, a part of cosmic horror. Jupiter's atmosphere is so powerful that our teensy and weak human body and senses would be utterly destroyed upon contact.

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Bipogram t1_j5kcoac wrote

Meh.

Put me in a decent thermal suit (nice and cosy) and I'll dangle from a balloon in the clouds of ammonia at 180K and 1bar for a while.

Happy as a clam.

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hermanworm t1_j5kgx3i wrote

And this right here is what drives innovation forward. The willingness of humans to say “yeah, I’ll give it a go”

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amitym t1_j5lf42w wrote

Getting back out will be a pain in the ass though....

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Pickledleprechaun t1_j5j0lad wrote

Space is not a friendly place. I occasionally do these type of thought experiments and am also left feeling small and squishy.

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SIurple t1_j5j1juu wrote

It’s okay technological advancement will eventually render our weaknesses obsolete for the most part id wager, give it a few hundred more years and we’ll probably have equipment that can survive ridiculously harsh conditions.

We’re definitely super squishy but we’re also pretty smart (for the most part) so we can probably become less squishy.

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link2edition t1_j5k0ma5 wrote

The entire history of human advancement in a nutshell.

We conquered this planet when we got really good at throwing stuff, getting good at throwing stuff in space is the logical next step.

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kleingeld_ t1_j5kd5ja wrote

Only problem is that we will definitely have killed ourselves before we get the chance to get good at throwing things in space. Even we did, we would use that expertise to throw at someone, probably one of our one. Again, killing ourselves.

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Gmn8piTmn t1_j5il0rw wrote

What does an explosion sounds like when it happens five feet away from you?

Well it doesn’t because the shockwave kills you way before the nerve signals have a chance to reach your brain and your brain to form the comprehension of sounds. So probably that.

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Comfortable_Mango_11 t1_j5id83g wrote

It's the one place in the solar system where all farts, no matter how loud and whiffy, go undetected.

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whateverforever84 t1_j5j1q1c wrote

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Probably something like that.

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collegefurtrader t1_j5hza58 wrote

We have lots of audio from Mars and I think some from Venus

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Nrksbullet t1_j5k0uvt wrote

Someone should make an ASMR video of actual audio from Mars, but about 7 hours into the video, drop a very faint whisper "what are you doing here?"

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chzygorditacrnch t1_j5iuz4a wrote

I don't think you should think about Jupiter. It probably sounds very scary, and we probably shouldn't think about it

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NoooAccuracy t1_j5jp72o wrote

There is an amazing YouTube channel called melodysheep, I highly recommend you check it out. There is even an episode called the sounds of space that goes into what you would hear on different planets, I think they cover Jupiter as well. My favorite is, time lapse of the future. This series literally is better than anything I've ever seen on TV, incredible animations and graphics. Check it out if you're bored.

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mDubbw t1_j5o62tg wrote

You should check out the soundrtrack to Solaris. The Remake. It’s my fav sountrack

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xpietoe42 t1_j5jifkb wrote

Is sound affected by gravity? How would propagation of sound alter?

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Bipogram t1_j5kd2vd wrote

Only three qualities alter the speed of sound.

The mean molecular mass (ie, what the gas is made of) and temperature (and the ratio of specific heats, gamma). Pressure has no effect on speed of sound, but (of course) the density of a gas will dictate how much acoustic energy may be found.

Gravity influences the density profile of a gas, but that's all.

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rexythekind t1_j5jxafr wrote

That's an interesting question. I don't think sound itself is affected by gravity, but the medium thru which sound travels is. So, I'd guess, for a given medium, more gravity means more compression means more density, ergo sound propagates differently if the medium is more dense. Right? So, whatever increased density does to sound is your answer, I'd think.

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Nrksbullet t1_j5k10ej wrote

If a tree falls in a vacuum, does it make a sound? I'd imagine not, so I guess sound doesn't exist at all without the medium to propagate it?

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GolfballDM t1_j5ka9ol wrote

If you were not touching the surface of whatever body the tree fell on, it would not make a sound.

If you were touching the surface of the aforementioned body, there would be a sound. Sort of. You'd feel it through your feet (or whatever part of you was touching the surface), as opposed to hearing it through your ears.

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danielravennest t1_j5jwr3d wrote

"The Galileo atmospheric entry probe was based on the design of the large probe of the Pioneer Venus multi-probe.

It was released July 13, 1995, when the main Galileo spacecraft was still about 50 million miles (80 million kilometers) from Jupiter.

The probe hit the atmosphere at 6.5 degrees north latitude and 4.4 degrees west longitude at 22:04:44 UT Dec. 7, 1995.

The probe returned valuable data for 58 minutes as it plunged into the Jovian cauldron. It endured a maximum deceleration of 228 g’s about a minute after entry when temperatures scaled up to 28,832 degrees Fahrenheit (16,000 degrees Celsius).

The probe’s transmitter failed 61.4 minutes after entry when the spacecraft was about 112 miles (180 kilometers) below its entry ceiling, evidently due to the enormous pressure (22.7 atmospheres).

Data, originally transmitted to the main spacecraft and later transmitted back to Earth, indicated an intense radiation belt about 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) above Jupiter’s clouds, few organic compounds, and winds as high as about half a mile per second (640 meters per second).

The entry probe also found less lightning, less water vapor, and half the helium than had been expected in the upper atmosphere"

From https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/galileo-probe/in-depth/

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Maxievelli t1_j5j6oku wrote

I think even if you made your body invincible and dropped into the atmosphere, you would probably end up falling at wind speed so you wouldn’t hear as much wind because you’d be traveling at the same speed as the rest of the air around you.

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zokier t1_j5jx6ix wrote

Is there any reason to think the sound would ve anything but static noise? What color noise it is maybe interesting question, but in general I wouldn't expect it sound particularly scary?

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Bipogram t1_j5kdb94 wrote

The spectral content of the noise would be an interesting question to study.

It's probably a power law (most/many things are) but with what index?

That's a good and non-trivial question. Thank you!

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PenaltyParticular t1_j5lbpkv wrote

Probably “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”.

Would be cool.

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Hustler-1 t1_j5j13ti wrote

I wouldn't be surprised if it sounded like a perpetual rocket engine.

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[deleted] t1_j5k7kqt wrote

I have thought about it.

I think it would sound like the 1990s THX audio test.

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Lo_zone11 t1_j5l6xik wrote

May be comforting to hear while life as we know it loses all solidity 😄

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Mouth_balls_83 t1_j5kieyv wrote

What does liquid metallic hydrogen sound like?

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CaliTexJ t1_j5lct5f wrote

Nice question! I hadn’t considered the atmospheric differences. It probably sounds like you’re under water and there’s an EF-5 tornado on the surface, now that I think of it. Just loud and the sound hits you faster and your brain can’t decipher any of it. It’d probably be maddening!

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accomplishedidea957 t1_j5jbvuv wrote

Inside Jupiter I like that because there is nothing to stand on

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_rake t1_j5jk7hr wrote

There are plenty of layers that are far denser than you, all the way down to the theorized metallic hydrogen, but you'd be squished thinner than a sheet of paper long before you got to worrying about where to stand.

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IrisCelestialis t1_j5kc3hx wrote

Won't you only really sink until your body density roughly matches the air density, since past that buoyancy will try to carry you upward again? Not to say it won't still be deadly, you'll be suffocated and probably also cooked, but crushed too?

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_rake t1_j5klh6r wrote

I'd think you're correct (thinking in scuba terms). So add 50-60 lbs of lead and have a party!

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Nrksbullet t1_j5k18bu wrote

There's a great write-up somewhere on Reddit from many years ago ( here it is ) about what would happen if you fell into Jupiter. I read it once every couple years, one of my favorite posts.

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Tex-Rob t1_j5k99pj wrote

I spend more time thinking about how so much of the universe isn't observable up close. I also spend a lot of time thinking about the big bang and how it applies to early life. If zero life existed, what are we measuring time with, and is the time where nothing was alive even relevant?

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FatiTankEris t1_j5l3q4z wrote

Imagine incredibly ear rupturing, sky tearing screaming. That should approximate the winds.

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Timetraveler01110101 t1_j5lluyn wrote

You can’t imagine it. The Db would be so higher your ears would explode… so would your whole body.

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AVBforPrez t1_j5n8ntx wrote

I'll do you one better - what do you think it looks like/sounds like in the middle of the permanent octagon of rotating storms at the north pole of Saturn?

Assuming it's not some weird thing we don't understand yet, it's probably the most chaotic thing we know of in our solar system as of now.

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MrGoober91 t1_j5j5w0v wrote

It would be a constant windy storm and not very pleasant when the eye moves toward you

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LLuerker t1_j5jfzqb wrote

Imagine being in an indestructible iron man suit just being whisked around by jupiters windy storms.. then you approach the eye, the shift of winds has you now falling deeper into the hole. Things get very tall and very dark..

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MrGoober91 t1_j5jiryi wrote

It’s gotta be deafening, beautiful, and honestly terrifying

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Bipogram t1_j5kc8hr wrote

&gt;sounds on jupiter

Jupiter's a big place.

If you mean, what might it sound like at the point where the atrmospheric pressure is 1bar?

Lindal (1992) suggested that that's at a region where the temperature is 180K. I'd be cautious to expose my ear to 1bar gas at that temperature for long (is in, more than 1 s).

The Galileo probe carried no dedicated acoustic suite (alas).

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xXijanlinXx t1_j5kc9le wrote

It wouldn't as many people say, blow your ears out. while wind speeds do go up to 900 mph they generally hang around 200-400 mph, for reference the fastest wind speed on earth ever recorded was 231 mph. If you were to jump out of your capsule as it was falling, you would already be going a fast as the wind so would wouldn't be torn apart unless you were teleported in or something. because sounds get higher and quieter as pressure drops, and lower and louder as pressure rises, depending on how far from the 1 bar mark you are in the atmosphere you could hear pitch shifted hurricane noises, normal hurricane noises or nothing at all if you were too deep or too high.

Tldr: Depends on how high you are.

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lioncub2785 t1_j5kwlp4 wrote

Equally interesting question is how would methane rivers and other large bodies of liquid would sound in satellites like Titan, accounting for their respective atmospheric circumstances?

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Bipogram t1_j5mhvxf wrote

<polishes nails: I calibrated the speed of sound sensor (API-V) on the Huygens probe>

The speed of sound varies only with temperature and composition of the gas.

If you know the temperature (trivial) then you can infer the composition from the time taken for a 'ping' to traverse a small gap - from a transmitting element to a microphone.

Pressure affects only the 'loudness' of the ping, not the speed.

It's a good question how a waterfall might sound - or a breaking wave. That's not a trivial matter - as anyone who has poured hot and cold water into a glass and listened will attest.

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lioncub2785 t1_j5ml059 wrote

Thank you for your response, you have made my day!

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Bipogram t1_j5mvdl8 wrote

It is a good question - I suspect that the sound of a breaking wave arises from the bubbles made by the impact 'ringing' - the fundamental mode of which will vary with T and the ratio of specific heats (gamma).

So I'd expect breaking waves on Titan to have fewer large bubbles (weaker gravity) but on the other hand the syrface tension of N2/ethane is lower than that of water, so might not bubbles be larger?

Either way, the speed of sound is 2/3 that of that at Earth's sea level - so a vibrating bubble ought to have a lower tone - if bubble sizes are like those on Earth, then the speed of sound alone will make crashing breakers sound deeper in pitch.

I think.

-fun!-

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GimmyJrimble t1_j5l61qb wrote

If you were traveling with the wind there would probably be a ghastly breeze with a bit of a chill in the air.

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huffuspuffus t1_j5lf6yn wrote

I feel like it would be deafening and let’s just use some suspension of disbelief: imagine you’re in a big house of some sorts on Jupiter. It would probably sound like a literal apocalypse outside 😩

Edit: spelling

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Outrageous_Owl8564 t1_j5ljifo wrote

Interestingly you can hear stuff on the moon. Well, your footsteps and that's about it (sound needs a medium to travel through to your eardrums and, well, your body is a pretty good medium for that).

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fluffy_assassins t1_j5lkbgp wrote

Your eardrums would just get instantly crushed. Probably your head, too.

Even with a spacesuit on.

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Bipogram t1_j5m258z wrote

It depends on the altitude at which you conduct this courageous experiment.

It is a gas giant after all, so there are locales with pressures of 1bar, and altitudes with temperatures of 300K.

Sadly those regions do not overlap.

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peteburrito t1_j5m1hbg wrote

There is no “on” Jupiter. It’s a gas giant, light on surface.

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Firebrand713 t1_j5my6d3 wrote

Are there meteors and other giant rocks floating somewhere above the “surface” of Jupiter?

Are sky islands possible there?

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ACowAndAWaffle t1_j5nad4n wrote

I would like to know what it sounds like under the surface of the hydrogen ocean…

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alextxdro t1_j5newmm wrote

Shhhhcchhwwwaaaaaaaiiiiiiiishshshshcckkrrrrrrkkkcchcjccjwaaaaaeeeeeeyyyyushshsh….etc…..

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Zealousideal_Bad8434 t1_j5nghdv wrote

NASA also had a YouTube video on the sounds of a black hole. It was creepy.

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KillyScreams t1_j5o2z6r wrote

The winds on Neptune are 2000+ mph

That's wild too

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sergiu_mightytravels t1_j5ouzw6 wrote

That's an interesting thought! Have you read any studies or research about what sound waves would do in a different atmosphere?

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okay_booma t1_j5owx8l wrote

I’d like to see a Saturn lightning strike as well as hear it. The lightning there is around 10k more powerful than earth.

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JayMonster65 t1_j5jhzvb wrote

It is a gas giant. No place to "land" it is constantly swirling with storms thicker and higher than our atmosphere. Forget our squishy bodies, we don't have spacecraft that can withstand the radiation or survive the pressure. There is a reason we can't hear more. We don't have equipment that could survive it, and even if we did, it would be limited by what the equipment could reproduce in the way of sounds in an atmosphere that is not equivalent. So at best it would be a simulation based on and limited by our technology.

And forget hundreds of years, even over millenniums, why would our bodies "adapt" to be able to handle environments we never will come in contact with? We live on a planet that is 3/4 covered in water and we haven't "adapted" enough to be able to live in water. Heck, we can't even survive in some land environments without the help of clothing or shelter.

It is an interesting thought game to wonder, but one that we will never actually know the answer to.

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AntzN3 t1_j5kgd34 wrote

We can probably drop a thick tube covered in a heatshield material that contains a microphone and a sound level sensor. Eventually the tube will reach a point where it will get crushed due to the enormous pressure in the atmosphere

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Bipogram t1_j5m2k2p wrote

ie, a calibrated microphone.

Yes - it's not a trivial piece of engineering - and depends entirely on the altitude region of interest.

And you're best off integrating this onto a sonde/entry probe of some sort - a bare microphone in a tube will need a further other non-trivial items.

<power source, transmitter, etc.>

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YourWiseOldFriend t1_j5kuzfa wrote

I don't wonder, I've heard it. Jupiter is a radio source, you can actually listen to it.

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