Hi Ariela! I agree with Christina that working on an instrument for a satellite or rocket, seeing it get launched into space, and then being able to see the data from it is very exciting. It's also exciting when you worked on a paper very hard and it is finally published. However, just looking at data can be very exciting too. Especially when you find something you haven't seen before. Last year, I was checking out some computer software with a co-worker while looking at data. The time period I was looking at had some really weird natural signals in it, although they weren't the type of signals I was studying. My co-worker had been helping me convert magnetic field data into sounds. He wondered what these weird looking signals would sound like, so he ran his program on the data. The signals sounded so weird that we were passing the headphones around to everyone and turning the volume way up to see their reactions. It was pretty funny! Even though most of us have heard a lot of "space sounds" before, we had never heard anything like this.
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