Amateur Records the "Sound" of Mars Express

gyrogeerloose writes "A French amateur radio operator who built his own ground station using equipment from an abandoned telecom uplink site has listened in on the ESA's Mars Express space probe. While his antenna is too small to allow him to download actual data, he was able to record and convert the signal of the probe's X-Band transmitter into an audio file."

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[Dachannien]

I wonder what data would actually have been transmitted in that bit of sound?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portal-2-ARG-SSTV-Images.png [wikipedia.org]

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[Ethanol-fueled]

It sounds like Wile E. Coyote falling off of a cliff.

It sounds like Wile E. Coyote falling off of a cli

[Oxford_Comma_Lover]

> It sounds like Wile E. Coyote falling off of a cliff.

Well, a good space program teaches that some things are constant everywhere in the Universe.

Beep, beep.

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[AnotherUsername]

Mork, calling Orson. Come in, Orson. Mork, calling Orson. Come in Orson...

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[__aasqbs9791]

Thanks a lot. Now I feel old...

Wait

[JumpDrive]

Is he sure that was MARS Express and not his next door neighbors high speed power drill?

Are we sure he did an off axis test? ( I saw that in a movie once)