The European Space Agency (ESA) released 5 minutes of crackling, disturbing and revealing audio this week How does the Earth’s magnetic field sound?

According to NASA, Earth’s internal magnetism, called the magnetosphere, generates a comet-shaped field around the planet’s surface that provides protection against harmful solar radiation and cosmic particlesas well as against the erosion of the atmosphere by the solar wind.

Researchers of the Technical University of Denmark they took magnetic signals, measured by ESA’s Swarm satellite mission dedicated to the study of the magnetic field, e They turned them into sound.

The resulting audio of 5 minutes includes ghostly crunches and crackling sounds, as well as deep breath-like sounds that listeners on social media have described as “petrifying” and “disturbing”.

Since the discovery was revealed on October 24, the loudspeakers in Solbjerg Square in Copenhagen, Denmark, up to 30 yesterday they broadcast the recording three times a day.

“We got access to a very interesting sound system made up of more than 30 speakers buried in the ground in Solbjerg Square in Copenhagen“, musician and project supporter Klaus Nielsen told ESA about the live installation of the recording.

“The roar of the Earth’s magnetic field is accompanied by the representation of a geomagnetic storm that resulted from a solar flare on November 3, 2011, and indeed, sounds pretty scaryNielsen added.

Source: ScienceAlert