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Earth-chorus-EMFISIS

Electric whales in outer space? No. That’s the Earth singing to you!

This is the Earth’s Chorus, “Researchers from the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) team at the University of Iowa have released a new recording of an intriguing and well-known phenomenon known as “chorus,” made on Sept. 5, 2012. …The radio waves, which are at frequencies that are audible to the human ear, are emitted by the energetic particles in the Earth’s magnetosphere.” (Read more at NASA). 

Go into space and keep exploring!


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