Dr Domenico Vicinanza of Anglia Ruskin University and Dr Genevieve Williams have used data sonification techniques to make an audio track of the 5,000th Mars Sunrise captured by the Mars rover Opportunity.
Academics transform photo of landmark Mars sunrise into a piece of music. Scientists have created the soundtrack of the 5,000th Mars sunrise captured by the robotic exploration rover, Opportunity, using data sonification techniques to create a two-minute piece of music. Researchers created the piece of music (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loXhsglsG-w) by scanning a picture from left to right, pixel by pixel, and looking at brightness and colour information and combining them with terrain elevation. They used algorithms to assign each element a specific pitch and melody...
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