Music From Mars - CBC - Ideas And Other Dope Tunes From Space, Sort of

 

Being a ham radio operator for so long I tend to just listen around the ham bands and not really pay much attention to signals outside of stations I am attempting to work or hear.  After listening to a recent episode of Ideas on CBC I got a better appreciation for what is going on in the cosmos.  There is a whole lot of radio to listen to coming from within our solar system and yes from outside of it as well.

The cool thing is that this very audio has been used to make music and has even been used in films and shows like Star Trek and Star Wars.  The episode and other content can be found on the Ideas Show page.  

Also of note is the fact that there is such a thing know as music in space.  Wikipedia outlines some of the cool sounds from space.  These of course are mostly man made sounds.

I should note is that what you are hearing is not actual sound, but rather data converted to sound via radio telescopes with some exceptions where microphones have been mounted to space probes.  Again we look to Wikipedia for an explanation.  

Below are interesting sites that talk  about what sound would be like on our nine planet solar system and how NASA listens in on what is going on in space.

Eavesdropping in Space: How NASA records eerie sounds around Earth.

Enjoy and thanks for reading Mixed Nuts.

Cliff T.