Lightning Crackles on Saturn: New JPL Podcast

Jane Platt (818) 354-0880
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Podcast Advisory February 14, 2006

Lightning Crackles on Saturn: New JPL Podcast

Sounds made from radio emissions during a recent lightning
storm on Saturn are contained in a new podcast posted online at:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/p...urn-lightning/ .

The audio sounds like the crackling we hear when we're
listening to AM radio during a thunderstorm on Earth.

The lightning was captured by the Cassini spacecraft. The
podcast also includes an interview with a Cassini scientist,
Dr. Bill Kurth of the University of Iowa.

Cassini has been orbiting Saturn and its moons since July 1,
2004. More information on Cassini is at www.nasa.gov/cassini and
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. Additional JPL podcasts are at
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/indexPod.cfm .

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