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NASA's rover Opportunity, British scientists have created a two-minute piece of music.
The soundtrack was created by scanning a picture from left to right, pixel by pixel, and looking at the brightness and color information and combining them with terrain elevation.
The team used a technique called "data sonification" that used computer algorithms to badign each element to a specific pitch and to translate a photograph into music.
"We are absolutely thrilled about presenting this work on such a fascinating planet," said Domenico Vicinanza, Director of Sound Engineering and Game Engineering (SAGE) research group at Anglia Ruskin.
"Sonication is a highly flexible technique to explore science and it can be used in several areas, from studying certain features of planet surfaces and atmospheres, to badyzing volcanic eruptions, or detecting volcanic eruptions," Vicinanza added.
The quiet, slow harmonies are a consequence of the dark background and the brighter, higher pitched sounds towards the middle of the piece are created by the sonification of the bright sun disk.
The data sonification technique can be applied in the sciences to provide scientists with new methods to badyze the occurrence of certain shapes and colors, which is particularly useful in image diagnostics, the team said.
Vicinanza along with Genevieve Williams from the University of Exeter,
will be featured in the March SCNA Conference in Dallas.
It will be presented by the speakers and vibrational transducers so the audience could feel the vibrations with their hands, thus enjoying a first-person experience of a sunrise on March.
Is a robotic rover that has been providing photographic data on Mars for NASA since 2004.
Earlier in 2018, it ceases communications following a dust storm. Scientists hope that it will resume its function later this year.
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