A Singing Comet - 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko auf Soundcloud.
Schon mal einen Kometen singen gehört!? Nein!? Wir bis heute auch nicht.
Immer wieder genial mal einen Blick auf die NASA Page zu werfen, nicht nur das die Bilder und Videos frei sind, sondern immer interessantes Zeug bei den Jungs zu finden ist.In diesem Fall hat man auf die Soundcloud-Page der ESA hingewiesen und da war ich echt mal erstaunt. Warum hat die ESA eine Souncloud-Page!? Nun, weil Kometen eigene Sound haben. WTF?! Sehr geil - bitte neue Memen mit Zikaden auf 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, so klingt es nämlich.
A set of instruments on the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has picked up a mysterious "song" from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. On Wednesday, Nov. 12, Rosetta will attempt the first-ever soft landing on a comet when it dispatches its Philae lander to the surface of comet 67P.Free Download ;)
The sounds are thought to be oscillations in the magnetic field around the comet. They were picked up by the Rosetta Plasma Consortium -- a suite of five instruments on the spacecraft that is orbiting the comet.
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Image Credit:
ESA/Rosetta/NavCam
Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems
to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic
field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz,
far below human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 Hz
and 20 kHz. To make the music audible to the human ear, the frequencies
have been increased in this recording. Original data credit:
ESA/Rosetta/RPC/RPC-MAG. This sonification of the RPC-Mag data was
compiled by German composer Manuel Senfft (www.tagirijus.de).
Thumbnail image credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
