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What on Earth is That #8?
Posted on Jul 08, 2011 01:34:48 PM | Adam Voiland | 16 Comments    |
What on Earth is That?

After going on hiatus for a few months, What on Earth is That is back! We're don't plan to post a new question every week, but we will when we have something interesting. Here's the latest mystery sound. Know what it is? Hint: It has something to do with NASA and Earth science.

(Post your guesses in the comments section, and check back next week for the answer....)

Here's the question from last time
And a time before that
And that
And...


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16 Comments so far ( Post your own )
16 On Nov 11, 2011 05:23:18 AM  web sitesi  added a comment on your blog post. 

The Space Shuttle crew is closed hatch.

15 On Aug 18, 2011 02:20:23 PM  guest  added a comment on your blog post. 

The sound is an icebreaker ship

14 On Aug 12, 2011 01:32:29 PM  carol  added a comment on your blog post. 

The sound is an icebreaker ship (maybe the Coast Guard Healy) breaking thick ice in the ocean (probably Arctic).

13 On Aug 11, 2011 07:46:08 PM  guest  added a comment on your blog post. 

it's some kind of signal, perhaps that used to perform geological studies of the earth.

12 On Jul 15, 2011 11:29:30 AM  Sharon Farmer  added a comment on your blog post. 

This is the sound coming from a solid rocket as it falls back to the earth. I heard a very similar sound from the SRB intertank camera from one of the previous flights. I guess the clanging noise is ice hitting the tank.

11 On Jul 12, 2011 10:51:22 PM  guest  added a comment on your blog post. 

Astronauts walking around in the space station.
Or File drawers opening and closing.

10 On Jul 12, 2011 03:48:24 AM  Sharon  added a comment on your blog post. 

A few things come to mind: It sounds like something traveling through a metal cylinder. It could be something traveling the the cylinder making it expand and contract causing the loud noises.
I really thought it sounded like a clothes dryer with some unauthorized object inside, but that is not very Earth-scientific-y.

9 On Jul 09, 2011 08:47:01 PM  Ana M Sánchez  added a comment on your blog post. 

¿Piedritas golpeando metal?, ¿granizo?, dobleces de una plancha de metal?.

8 On Jul 08, 2011 06:10:56 PM  Ryan Munkwitz  added a comment on your blog post. 

Is that the enhanced sound of incoming space dust impacting the NASA shuttle during liftoff through the layers of Earth's atmosphere!?

7 On Jul 08, 2011 06:03:10 PM  Martin United Kingdon  added a comment on your blog post. 

i think its the sound of debris hitting / falling away from inside of of a shuttle solid rocket booster.

6 On Jul 08, 2011 02:52:11 PM  Ville  added a comment on your blog post. 

That is spaceshuttle crew access hatch closing.

5 On Jul 08, 2011 02:47:42 PM  Hunter Hoover-Watson  added a comment on your blog post. 

Is it the sound of gas expand or contract in tanks or tanks being filled with Oxygen or Hydrogen? The 5 Nitrogen tanks?

4 On Jul 08, 2011 02:42:47 PM  Hunter Hoover-Watson  added a comment on your blog post. 

Is it the sound of the tanks? Maybe from gas warming or cooling - being filled?

Just a guess!

from

Hunter
Sewalls Point

3 On Jul 08, 2011 02:35:04 PM  not spaced out  added a comment on your blog post. 

is it the sound of particles hitting against the shuttle in space?

2 On Jul 08, 2011 03:24:27 PM  Harry Kodder  added a comment on your blog post. 

Some astronaut in the bathroom... no really, i think that is something turning like a washmachine

1 On Jul 08, 2011 01:50:59 PM  Brian Colarusso  added a comment on your blog post. 

The "White Room" being pulled back from the launch vehicle

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