Imagining a visit to another planet just got a little easier, with the first data-based simulations of extraterrestrial sounds. Space probes have never captured actual sounds on other worlds, but a team led by Tim Leighton
of the University of Southampton in England has simulated such noises by calculating how sound would travel through various planetary atmospheres.
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