Hover over any of the planet types to play its sound and see its description. Click/tap to toggle.

In Elite: Dangerous, it is less known that different types of planets and their environment emanate different sounds, and as such can be used as recognisable signatures. This site strives to provide you with an as complete catalog as possible in both visuals and audio, to help Elite: Dangerous explorers in recognising the different signatures of planets. This can be of use when deciding whether or not to travel a very long distance to surface scan certain system bodies.

Want to know more about all of this? Please visit CMDS Akira's excellent forum thread discussion. I've used a couple of the sounds and graphical resources from that thread, and I am in debt to CMDR Akira for this.

The most optimal setting for distinguishing the sounds are; Sound Effects Volume: 100%, Sound Effects Mute: UNMUTED, Music Volume: 0%, Music Mute: MUTED, Stellar Cartography Music: ON while the rest of the music options are OFF, Dynamic Range Optimised For: NORMAL