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Amateur Records the "Sound" of Mars Express

Posted by kdawson on from the music-of-the-artificial-irregular-shapes dept.

gyrogeerloose writes "A French amateur radio operator who built his own ground station using equipment from an abandoned telecom uplink site has listened in on the ESA's Mars Express space probe. While his antenna is too small to allow him to download actual data, he was able to record and convert the signal of the probe's X-Band transmitter into an audio file."

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