Music From the Space: Voyager Spacecrafts Data Sonification
Domenico Vicinanza (in collaboration with M. Sorrentino, G. La Rocca) DANTE – Cambridge, UK [email protected]
Supercomputing 2013, Demo at NASA Booth 21 November 2013 Denver, Colorado, USA
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Twin spacecrafts launched in 1977 After 36 years, they continue exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. Primary mission: exploration of Jupiter and Saturn.
Image credits: Univ Oreoon connect • communicate • collaborate First pictures of the outer planets!
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Voyager 1, Saturn 1980 Voyager 1, Jupiter 1979
Voyager 2, Neptune and Triton
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Voyager 2, Uranus 1986 Voyager 2, Neptune 1989 Some of the main discoveries of the Voyager mission
Volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io Ocean beneath the icy surface of Europa
Magnetic poles of Uranus and Neptune
Image credits: NASA connect • communicate • collaborate http://www.nasa.gov Some of the main discoveries of the Voyager mission
Icy geysers on Neptune's moon Triton;
Structure of Saturn’s rings
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connect • communicate • collaborate mages: courtesy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Voyager Cosmic Ray Subsystem. The first sound of interstellar space (NASA/JPL)
April 9, 2013: local plasma oscillations picked-up
This plasma had the signatures of interstellar plasma, with a density connect • communicate • collaborate more than 40 times that observed by Voyager 2 in the heliosheath. Voyager Spacecrafts
Cosmic ray detector
LECP
connect • communicate • collaborate Image credits: NASA http://www.nasa.gov Voyager 1 and 2 data (Cosmic ray)
Image credits: JPL/NASA connect • communicate • collaborate http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov A spacecraft duet
>21Billion Km
Spacecraft duet
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connect • communicate • collaborate Data sonification
Sonification is the acoustic representation of data Music describes the data, for example: Growing data rising melody Decreasing data descending melody
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Time
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1, 2, 3, 3 ,1, …
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36 years of data! From 1977 to today
connect • communicate • collaborate Voyager 1 Cosmic ray proton count 1977-2013 data
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Piano and Harp
Voyager 1 and 2 together
connect • communicate • collaborate Let’s listen to it played by an orchestra!
connect • communicate • collaborate Greetings from Voyager 1
Voyager 1: Solar System Family Portrait The only picture of the entire solar system Taken on February 14th 1990 from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers
(3.7 billion miles) from Earth Detail of the Earth connect • communicate • collaborate Credits and Acknowledgements
Data: The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory Images: NASA/JPL (http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov) Scientific and technical support: Mariapaola Sorrentino (Cambridge UK) Grid computing coordination and support: Giuseppe La Rocca (INFN Catania, Italy)
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#3925 at SC13 connect • communicate • collaborate connect • communicate • collaborate How does the mapping work?
We map the graph value range with the music range
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