NASA's Sounds of the Sea | Bering Sea Eddy Sonficiation Explained

This is a frozen moment in time - a transect across a beautiful swirling eddy off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Western Bering Sea, as seen from space. The melody corresponds directly to the intensity of red (Rrs-667), green (Rrs-547), and blue (Rrs-443) spectral ocean reflectance data, as detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard the Aqua satellite. Listen closely as the colors harmonize and diverge, manifesting the natural patterns created by microscopic life in the ocean.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Image from MODIS, onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite.
Sonification: Jon Vandermeulen and Ryan Vandermeulen.
Image credit: Norman Kuring.

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