NASA has released an eerie new sound clip full of high frequency "whistles, crunches, and whooshes" created when waves of plasma slam into our planet's magnetic field lines and make them "vibrate like the plucked strings of a harp," the space agency said.
The new audio, released April 17, sounds like it comes straight out of a low-budget sci-fi movie. But it is actually part of NASA's new Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas (HARP) project, which turns data about Earth's magnetosphere — a magnetic bubble around our planet's outer atmosphere that shields us from dangerous solar storms and radiation from the sun — into sound bites.
