"Saturn" from the album "The Universe"

Hi Everyone,

This week I wanted to talk about ‘Saturn’ and what to look forward to with the music pieces on the upcoming album “The Universe”.

Saturn is named after the god Saturnus, the god of agriculture and harvest.  Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.  It is about 890 million miles from the Sun and takes about 29 years to make one orbit.  It is made up of 75 percent Hydrogen and 25 percent Helium.  It is about 74,900 miles in diameter and can fit about 765 Earths.  Unlike Jupiter it is so buoyant if there were enough water it would float.  Like Jupiter it has no solid surface.  We do not really know the rotation of a day, the cloud tops rotate about 11 hours.  There are 8 rings and are lettered from A-G and span from tip to tip about 200,000 miles across and are very thin about as thick as a 1 or 2 story building and like looking at a sheet of paper in comparison.

There are at least 62 moons, Titan being its largest moon is bigger than Mercury and Pluto.  The Cassini/Huygens spacecraft took 7 years to reach Saturn.  The Huygens probe was sent to Titan and discovered it has an atmosphere and solid ground similar to Earth.  With Saturn’s other unique moons like Enceladus being only 300 miles across water and water ice geyser vapors shooting out from its surface forming the E ring.  Others like Mimas which looks like a familiar Death Star, Iapetus and many others with their shapes and sizes.

This piece was written for its serene and beautiful settings.  Saturn being the second biggest planet, I wanted to allow a more majestic and richer quality with lower orchestral and other various instruments without competing with Jupiter which is without comparison.
   

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"Jupiter" from the album "The Universe"

Jupiter

This week I wanted to talk about ‘Jupiter’ and what to look forward to with the music pieces on the upcoming album “The Universe”.

Jupiter is fifth and largest of the planets it is known as the Roman King of the gods.  Not only is it the biggest of the planets in our solar system, it has enough room to fit all the planets in our solar system and have room to spare.  The Earth can comfortably fit in well known storm as the Big Red Spot.  The vastness of the Jupiter can also fit about 1,300 Earths comfortably.  Jupiter is 485 million miles from the Sun and mostly made of gases; about 86 percent hydrogen and 13 percent helium and has no surface area.  It spins so fast that it bulges at the equator.  A day on Jupiter is less than 10 hours (9.9) and takes about 12 years to orbit the Sun.  With its enormous magnetosphere giving it a huge gravitational pull, it is a like a small solar system in itself pulling any or everything that enters its realm. 

There are at least 69 Moons and all are extremely different with their substance such as ‘Io’ (pronounced eye-oh) being close most actively volcanic, Europa looks like it is cracked like an egg shell covered with ice, Callisto being filed with craters from many years of bombardment and Ganymede at -240 degrees and more than 40 miles thick on its crust Ganymede is the biggest moon in the solar system, all being very distinctive.  There are also small rings that orbit the planet, not very visible as other planets.  There are even Aurora’s around the poles.

There are storms on Jupiter and enormous pressure.  The temperatures on the mantle level are about 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit.  And the further you go toward the center it becomes a seething level of metallic hydrogen which makes up a lot of its magnetic field.  Without Jupiter the Earth and surrounding planets may cease to exist.  Because of its great magnetic field it is considered as the solar systems vacuum cleaner.  It will take comets and space debris and either sling shots it out of the way or it devours that object in its path.  July 1994 the comet Shoemaker Levy 9 came too close and impacted into Jupiter.

This piece was written for its monstrous and powerful size and vastness.  There are a number of orchestra instruments and various instruments added to give it the richness and depth. The intent was to describe an aggressive massive high energy and somewhat unpredictable power that Jupiter would portray with a majestic presence of supremacy as being the King of the planets. 

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"Mars" from the album "The Universe"

Mars

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This week I wanted to talk about ‘Mars’ and what to look forward to with the music pieces on the upcoming album “The Universe”.

There are a number of planets in our solar system, but there are very few that you can actually visit due to their lack of surface and their atmosphere.  Mars is a planet that has similarities to planet Earth.  It is quite a small planet it is only 4,214 miles in diameter and about the width of the United States or Australia.  It has two moons Phobos and Deimos.  From the Sun it is about 142 million miles one orbit takes about 687 days.  For one rotation it has a day of 24 and half hours.  The surface gravity is 0.38 times the Earth’s gravity. The temperatures vary and can reach as high as 30 degree Fahrenheit on average of -80 degrees on average and a low of -195 degrees Fahrenheit.  The conditions are pretty rough if you were to ever visit there. 

You can never go out of a breath of fresh air.  The atmosphere is 95.3 percent carbon dioxide and the pressure is less than 1 percent of the Earth.  In other words if you were to take off your space suite your blood would boil which would not be a pleasant experience.  There is no ultra violet protection (UV) and you would be burnt to a crisp in moments.  The dust on Mars is as fine as fire smoke and can get into your clothes, equipment, into your lungs and everywhere.  There are dusts storms that cover the planet about once every three years.  This happened the first time when Mariner 9 first visited the planet in 1971.  Olympus Mons is the 85,000 feet about two and half times the height of Mount Everest making it the highest peak in the solar system.  The height may have been caused by its lower gravity.  There have been questions if water has been discovered on Mars.  In 2008 the Phoenix Lander was sent to the north arctic pole and water ice was found on the surface under the spacecraft.  There have been ice discover near the equator as well.  This opens many possibilities from the earlier stages of the planets origin.

You will notice this piece was written in some ways similar with the piece atmosphere to co-inside with one another.  It was written as a description of Mars and its surface.  Being a dusty and desolate location it has a sense of intensity and adventure.  There are many different instruments and with touch of sound design for giving you an effect of what you may experience if you were there.

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"Atmosphere" from the album "The Universe"

Atmosphere

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This week I wanted to talk about ‘Atmosphere’ and what to look forward to with the music pieces on the upcoming album “The Universe”.

All the planets have a different type of atmosphere around each planet or space object.  Organizations like NASA/JPL and other organizations have been trying have made many attempts in getting to the surface of Mars because the atmosphere is not quite dense enough to be an atmosphere and yet too thin to slow down an object or spacecraft properly. 

For a spacecraft to get to Mars it takes about 8.5 to 9 months to arrive from the Earth.  There is a two year window that is a race is to get everything ready for the launch due to a slower and elliptical orbit of Mars.  Even traveling at the speed of light, in order for the radio signal from ground control to get to the spacecraft is about 7 minutes.  Ground control would describe this as the ‘7Minutes of Terror’ meaning the spacecraft had to at one point take over and go through a landing sequence by itself with no help from the ground.  Therefore there was a waiting period not knowing if the spacecraft arrived or malfunctioned and crashed on the surface of Mars.  

Even though there have been many failed attempts, there have been other spacecraft that have arrived safely such as the Viking missions in the 1970’s. Other missions followed such as Pathfinder in 1997 being the first robot rover then Spirit and Opportunity in 2004.  There have been other missions that followed like the Phoenix Mars Lander in 2008 to study the poles for water and ice.  Later the spacecraft and rover science laboratory Curiosity arrived in 2012 and has been active on its surface for many years.  Other missions are scheduled to follow.

This piece was particularly written for this getting to the planet Mars and the challenge of getting to the Martian surface.  There is a short animation available describing how the spacecraft traveled and arrived to the Red planet.  I have written the music as timely process of traveling through space with an intense arrival to co-inside along with this short animation piece.

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-Jordan

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