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Scientists created the 5,000th Mars Sun Soundtrack captured by NASA's robotic robot, Opportunity, using data sonication techniques to create a two-minute piece of music.
Researchers from the University of Anglia Ruskin and the University of Exeter, UK, created the piece of music by scanning a picture from left to right, pixel by pixel, examining the Brightness and color information and combining them with the elevation of the ground.
They used algorithms to assign each element a specific pitch and melody.
The silent and slow harmonies are a consequence of the dark background and the brighter and more acute sounds towards the middle of the room are created by the sonification of the brilliant solar disk.
The piece, titled Mars Soundscapes, will be presented at the SC18 Supercomputing Conference in Dallas, United States, on November 13.
The researchers will use both conventional loudspeakers and vibration transducers so that the audience can feel the vibrations with their hands, thus taking advantage of the first-person experience of a sunrise on Mars .
Opportunity is a mobile robot that has been providing photographic data on Mars to NASA since 2004. Earlier this year, it ceased its communications after a dust storm.
Scientists hope that he will be able to resume his duties later this year.
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