This page takes a recording of a splashdown on Earth, and recreates it for Titan.

Click here to hear the same done for a waterfall. Follow the links to learn how and why it was done.

The splash down

We dropped a 'phantom space probe' (which is not meant to duplicate the Huygens landing) into water. The probe weighed 100.8 kg, and the impact speed was 5.5 m/s. You can hear the sound by clicking the wav or mp3 file. There are three components. First you hear the splash. Then a gurgling sound as water enters parts of the structure, and air bubbles out. Finally there are some mechanical clanking noises as the structure of the probe settles.

Using the same technique as previously, click the wav or mp3 file to hear what this sounds like on Titan.

We do have a video, but as advocates of interpreting the environment through the sounds, we are not showing it !

Go via the homepage to see other acoustics projects, such as the way humpback whales use sound to trap their prey; and the way sound is used to diagnose osteoporosis and cure kidney stones; or to generate temperatures in liquids similar to those found on the surface of the sun; or how bubbles at sea hinder radar and one possible way dolphins might get around this.

This page was last updated by TG Leighton, 6 August 2004