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NASA Music Out of This World

Posted by michael on from the anthropomorphism dept.

Koyaanisqatsi writes "With detection instruments on NASA's Voyagers, Galileo, Cassini and other spacecraft, University of Iowa physicist Dr. Don Gurnett recorded waves that course through outer space. Gurnett converted the plasma waves into sounds which inspired a 10-movement musical composition called "Sun Rings." Sample the sounds from Galileo, Voyager and Cassini. (Full Story)"

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  1. Re:Okay, I just don't get why this is interesting. by Peter+T+Ermit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not interesting, at least to me. Every time NASA gets an oscillating signal of some sort, they convert it to sound waves and play it, hoping that the press mistakes it for something profound. They're seldom disappointed.