I Always Knew the Universe Was a Giant Video Game Wrapped Inside a Retro B-Movie

Recently, NASA published audio recordings collected by a space probe as it explored the Saturnian system, and, as Wired notes, the "eerie, whistling, epic whooshing and warbling echoes collected by the probe's instruments sound as though they could have been lifted directly from '50s sci-fi classics like Plan 9 From Outer Space or Forbidden Planet."



Bizarre Sounds of Saturn's Radio Emission


Sounds of Enceladus

This next one has bits that sound like Q-Bert blips:



Radar Echoes from Titan's Surface
How great is that shit? I love it.

You can find out more about the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan, and hear the other two collected sounds, here.