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If you're the sort of person who enjoys looking out of airplane windows, watching landscapes pass and Earth unfold, then see these videos from the International Space Station. Assembled from photographic sequences captured in April and May, the videos show Earth from an orbital perspective. Continents pass in minutes. Glories like the northern lights and a solar eclipse fit in their entirety within one person's sight. Each clip represents a few minutes of flight time, with photographs taken at a rate of roughly once per second.
What It's Like to Be an Astronaut: Amazing Videos of the View From Space | Wired Science
Sandrine Ceurstemont, editor, New Scientist TV You've probably seen what a solar storm looks like , but what does this activity sound like? Now a new soundtrack created by composer Robert Alexander from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor translates readings from a recent storm on 7 March into audio. To create the track, Alexander used raw data from instruments on two NASA spacecraft, the Messenger satellite near Mercury and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) about a million miles from Earth. Measurements from the Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS), for example, were mapped onto an audio waveform , the amplitude of the sound corresponding to the number of particles hitting the detector and its frequency relating to how fast the events occur.

