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Cosmic Recordings Double as Sci-Fi Soundtracks

We stole that headline, and this post, really, from our sister blog The Underwire. But theremins and Saturn are two of our favorite things, so we couldn’t help ourselves. NASA’s Cassini-Huygens space probe recorded audio during its exploration of Saturn and its moons. The eerie whistling, epic whooshing and warbling echoes sound as though they […]

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We stole that headline, and this post, really, from our sister blog The Underwire. But theremins and Saturn are two of our favorite things, so we couldn't help ourselves. NASA's Cassini-Huygens space probe recorded audio during its exploration of Saturn and its moons.

The eerie whistling, epic whooshing and warbling echoes sound as though they could have been lifted directly from '50s sci-fi classics like Plan 9 From Outer Space or Forbidden Planet.

Listen to them here.