No amount of listening is going to help you hear something as visual as a sunrise, especially one on Mars. Unless, of course, you make your own sound effects, like Dr Domenico Vicinanza and Dr Genevieve Williams did with a photo of the Opportunity rover’s 5000th morning on the red planet. The end result is this two-minute musical number that, by definition, is otherworldly.
By using a technique called “data sonification”, the pair were able to translate the photo into this calming, ethereal piece.
