Having a crappy day? Want to get the hell out of earth for like half an hour? Then checkity-check this out: NASA Space Recordings of Earth. For thirty minutes, you can hear all sorts of ambient noises in the background that you'd probably expect to hear in Thom Yorke's latest "i am so much weirder than you" solo project er something [You can check out my logs on the recording here]. According to this one science blog:
"Although space is a vacuum, this does not mean that there is no sound. It only means that there is no air in space to act as a medium to transmit soundwaves to your ear. instruments were specially designed by NASA to pick up and record these vibrational frequencies. The sounds you hear are interactions of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, plasma wave phenomena and interactions between Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere. These vibration frequencies are all exactly within the range of human hearing, 20 - 20,000 Hz."
If you don't have the patience for thirty minutes of ambience music, you can check out shorter clips of other recordings conducted in outer space here (Jupiter sounds really crazy). Enjoyz.
*image courtesy NASA
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