If you’re looking for something upsetting from area this October, an audio track of transformed information launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) offers a troubling sonic representation of the Earth’s electromagnetic field under attack.
Earth’s electromagnetic field is produced by superheated, swirling liquid iron in the world’s core and, most importantly, keeps life on the surface area safe from a barrage of cosmic radiation and charged particles. We can in some cases see these interactions as green-blue aurora near the poles, however it’s not typically something that can be heard.
However, a group from the Technical University of Denmark has actually made the undetectable audible by collecting information from a trio of ESA satellites released in 2013 to determine the Earth‘s magnetic signals and transforming it to sound. The outcome is a rather unnerving representation of a rumbling electromagnetic field and a clash with particles from a solar flare.
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The audio is readily available online, however it was created to be experienced by means of a stereo including over 30 speakers went into the ground at the Solbjerg Square in Copenhagen, Denmark.
” The group utilized information from ESA’s Swarm satellites, in addition to other sources, and utilized these magnetic signals to control and manage a sonic representation of the core field,” artist and task advocate Klaus Nielsen, stated in a declaration
” The rumbling of Earth’s electromagnetic field is accompanied by a representation of a geomagnetic storm that arised from a solar flare on Nov. 3, 2011, and certainly it sounds quite frightening,” Nielsen stated.
The magnetic signals utilized consist of those going through mantle, crust and oceans, in addition to from the ionosphere and magnetosphere, so sounds suggestive of an earthquake are rather fitting.
Visitors to the square can listen to the information sonification task up until Oct. 30.
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