The sound of Earth’s magnetic field by BepiColombo

The magnetometer (MPO-MAG ) on board of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter, one of the two orbiters comprising the BepiColombo mission, made measurements of Earth’s magnetic field during the spacecraft’s flyby of Earth in April audio, accompanied by the animation, is a sonification of the captured data created by the MPO-MAG team and not an actual sound recorded in space. The audio, compressing 8 hours of recorded data into a 26-second audio track, shows the moment when BepiColombo encounters the so-cal