Comments | rashina: Ever wanted to hear another planet?

rashina

Ever wanted to hear another planet?

May 18, 2009 15:33

So as most of you probably don't know, the research I'm currently working on is the 128 Hz magnetometer data from Venus Express (the European Union probe currently orbiting Venus; a fraternal twin to Mars Express). I'm looking for bursts of circularly-polarized whistler-mode waves, aka probably lightning. I've gotten tired of staring at wiggly ( Read more... )

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phoenix1701 May 19 2009, 01:10:23 UTC

Holy crap, that is AWESOME. This pretty much presses every button I've got -- HCI (multimodal interfaces FTW!), physics, astronomy, orbital dynamics, ...

Yum.

Also, you have probably heard of this already, but if not... someone sonified the CMB and did some magic to derive a time dimension out of it (taking into account things like the FLRW equations and the change in density of the plasma as the universe expanded)... they had to increase the frequency by about 10^26 to get it in audible range, but that's okay because the WAV file would be 760,000 years long otherwise. Here it is: http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound.html

rockmanandforte May 19 2009, 02:35:14 UTC

jealousy

s13 May 19 2009, 14:43:00 UTC

Yeah... that's fucking awesome. Almost makes me wish I'd continued with physics.

rashina May 20 2009, 06:30:35 UTC

Space physics is shit; I'm just lucky I got a vaguely planet-like problem (FUCK PLASMA). Currently I'm considering dropping out to join the circus or found a cat sanctuary instead. I figure though, if I stick through for (about) one more year I can at least get my Master's so as not to waste this past one.