Latest Sounds of STEREO
09/03/2009
Dr. Laura Peticolas gave a talk at the Exploratorium about her research, her inspiration and how and why scientists sonify data.
Click here to download her talk (.mp3, 29MB)
Click here for more information
05/04/2009
Here is our new STEREO-IMPACT NASA mission sonification computer software of the solar winds. We know there are currently some bugs with certain Macintosh systems, but we hope you will try it and provide us your feedback – let us know if it worked for you! Here is our evaluation questionnaire to download (PDF, 39KB). Please fill this out and fax it back to us at 510-643-5660 or send it by mail to:
Laura Peticolas
Center for Science Education, Space Sciences Lab
University of California at Berkeley
7 Gauss Way, MC 7450
Berkeley, CA 94720
If you include your own mailing address, we will send you a NASA poster for providing your feedback to us.
System Requirements
- Java 5.0
- MAC: OS X 10.4 or higher
Installation Instructions
- Download sonification software (ZIP format - 24MB).
- Double-click the installer called "Sounds of Space.mpkg" and you will be guided through the installation process.
- The installer will place the main application "Sounds of Space.app" in your Applications folder and will also install some necessary libraries:
- /Library/Java/Extensions/libcdfNativeLibrary.jnilib
- /usr/lib/libcdf.a
- /usr/lib/libcdf.dylib
Operation
- Launch the program and select a date on the right side of the screen.
- Once all of the data has finished loading, press the speaker icon on the left side of the screen
- Press PLAY!
We have created a presentation that explains what this new sonification project is about and showcases some sounds from the project. You can view this presentations in several different formats:
Download it as a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with the sounds in a zip file (20.8MB)
View it as an HTML File here
Download it as a PDF file with embedded sounds (2.09MB)
