The " Symphonies of the Planets " series, a collection of works by Brain / Mind Research inspired by audible-frequency plasma waves recorded by the " Voyager " unmanned space probes, can also be considered an organic manifestation of dark ambient.
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Possible instruments include Medium Resolution Camera, Flux Gate Magnetometer, Visible / NIR Imaging Spectrometer, Laser Altimeter, Low and High Energy Plasma Packages, Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer, UV Imaging Spectrometer, Radio and Plasma Wave sensor, Narrow Angle Camera, and a Sub-Surface Radar.
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Bill Kurth, a physicist at the University of Iowa who analyzed data from the spacecraft's radio and plasma wave instrument, described the " crackle and pop " of the Saturnian electric storm as similar to what one hears " on an AM radio broadcast during a thunderstorm ."
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The 14 instruments carried on " Nozomi " are an imaging camera, neutral mass spectrometer, dust counter, thermal plasma analyzer, magnetometer, electron and ion spectrum analyzers, ion mass spectrograph, high energy particles experiment, VUV imaging spectrometer, sounder and plasma wave detector, LF wave analyzer, electron temperature probe, and a UV scanner.
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"This is exactly the point of doing a mission like this, " said Bill Kurth of the University of Iowa, the deputy principal investigator for Cassini's radio and plasma wave instrument, which detects " cracks " and " pops " from lightning like those that can be heard on an AM radio during a thunderstorm on Earth.
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The specific TSS1-R mission objectives were : characterize the current-voltage response of the TSS-orbiter system, characterize the satellite's high-voltage sheath structure and current collection process, demonstrate electric power generation, verify tether control laws and basic tether dynamics, demonstrate the effect of neutral gas on the plasma sheath and current collection, characterize the TSS radio frequency and plasma wave emissions and characterize the TSS dynamic-electrodynamic coupling.
