Image taken June 30, 2004 from the Cassini spacecraft as it inserted itself in orbit around Saturn. ( NASA/JPL/University of Colorado )There are just weeks left in the extraordinary life of the Cassini spacecraft — and in reverence, astrophysicists at the University of Toronto have painstakingly converted its final mission into music. “It’s on a death spiral, really,” Matt Russo, a postdoctoral researcher at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, said. Cassini’s last mission began in April, and included a final close-up with Titan and 22 dangerous weekly dives between Saturn and its rings. Converting the inaudible sounds that Saturn and its rings produce into music brings an event that’s occurring billions of kilometres away, closer to home, Russo believes.

Source: thestar August 31, 2017 19:30 UTC