Each instrument in the orchestral arrangement of the Aeolus sonification represents a different type of data collected by the satellite.
To mark the end of the Aeolus satellite, which will die in a fierythis week, the European Space Agency released a video titled"Life of Aeolus," a musical piece written for a small wind ensemble based on one year of wind data collected by the satellite. The data was sonified — turned into sound — by assigning different types of Aeolus data to the pitch, volume and length of each musical note in"Life of Aeolus.
. In the full piece, each second represents one day of data collected by Aeolus as it orbited Earth 16 times each day., each instrument in the orchestral arrangement of the Aeolus sonification represents a different type of data; the highest, the piccolo, corresponds to data collected from the tops of clouds using the satellites lasers. The lower instruments, bassoon and bass clarinet, represent data collected much lower close to Earth's surface.
The COVID-19 pandemic meanwhile, underscores large sections of the song, represented by a pulsating synthesizer rhythm.
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