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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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  1. Re:I need a subject? OK by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder what data would actually have been transmitted in that bit of sound?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portal-2-ARG-SSTV-Images.png

  2. It sounds like Wile E. Coyote falling off of a cli by Oxford_Comma_Lover · · Score: 4, Funny

    > It sounds like Wile E. Coyote falling off of a cliff.

    Well, a good space program teaches that some things are constant everywhere in the Universe.

    Beep, beep.

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  3. Re:I need a subject? OK by AnotherUsername · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mork, calling Orson. Come in, Orson. Mork, calling Orson. Come in Orson...

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  4. Re:I need a subject? OK by __aasqbs9791 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks a lot. Now I feel old...

  5. Hire him by acid06 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If this guy has so much motivation trying to do this as a hobby, ESA should step forward and hire him straight away.
    Imagine what he could do if he had access to proper equipment.