AUDIO

Solar System in Sound

Water in Extreme Environments

This clip provides an audio “tour” of the solar system, starting at the Sun and then flying out past Neptune. Each planet has a sound, and bigger planets have lower frequencies. Time in the clip corresponds to distance from the Sun. The clip ends at a distance of 35 “Astronomical Units (AU).” One AU is the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Traveling at the speed of light, it would take 4.9 hours to go this far! The table below lists the size and distance from the sun for each planet, and the corresponding time in the audio clip. Notice how relatively close together the inner planets are, and how much empty space there is between the larger outer planets!