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Gregor Sailer / The Polar Silk Road – EISCAT I, Ramfjordmoen, Norway / Photography / 2020

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Space Project

"Space Project is my founding series, started in 2007 and still going on. It tells the story of both the past and the future of space exploration, from the memories of the Apollo program that followed the first steps of man on the moon, to the future NASA SLS rocket destined for Mars. My photographs are a mix of historical and documentarian vision of space adventure with scenes staged inspired by cinema and my childhood memories. My aesthetic, philosophical, and recreational fascination with outer space undoubtedly comes from the imagery and books from the 1970s and 80s – television series, science fiction novels and documentaries – that were blended and superimposed in my memory. Emblematic locations for space exploration look like cinema sets where Mon Oncle from Jacque Tati movie might meet with Jules Verne in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey… My latest images from December 2019 show the Artemis project, at the NASA Glenn Research Center, whose objective is to return to the Moon in order to develop an orbital station that will then serve as a starting point to go to Mars.

"Space exploration is humanity’s great adventure, a leap into the unknown towards a dark light beyond Earth’s protective atmosphere and the gravity that keeps us there. Space represents the universal desire not only to contemplate the sky, but also to project oneself into it. Desire, from the Latin work "desiderare", means regret and “nostalgia for a lost star”. But how can one desire something unknown? Could it be that – stardust that we are – we are reminded of a primeval time when we floated in space? Might men not be gods fallen from the sky, unconscious of the fact, but nevertheless nostalgic for the star they have lost?

I photographed both the past and the future of space exploration between 2007 and now, from the space race in the 1960s to the NASA SLS launch vehicle expected to go to Mars. The present decade marks the transition from political to economic considerations in space, and the introduction of a worldwide dimension. After the Cold War and the domination of the super powers, the space sector became less of a military priority than an economic one also involving investments by private rms with multiple interests: communication, science, research and development, ecology, health, technology, and even space tourism.

The ambivalence between fantasy and reality in Vincent Fournier’s photographs confronts the myth of space race with a sense of irony. It appears like a magnificent children's play provoking a diffusion between waking and dreaming. His ghostly, composed photographs-mysterious, space-suited men walking on a vast desert plain, a researcher quietly sitting in a blindingly white sterile environment, abandoned monitors blinking codes in a simulation room—have an otherworldly, unreal aesthetic. In these fascinating images, Fournier explores the paranoia and darkness of man’s attraction to the disconnect of space. — Sawako Akune, GQ Japan

I would like to thank all the space centres that have placed their trust in me and allowed me to venture behind the doors of these secretly guarded places. They have allowed me to relive my childhood dreams and I am grateful to them. Thank you to the NASA centers in the United States, John F. Kennedy Space Center (Florida), Johnson Space Center (Texas), Langley Research Center (Virginia), Stennis Space Center (Mississippi), Marshall Space Flight Center (Alabama), Michoud Assembly Facility (Louisiana), the ILC company in Deleware (making NASA suits since the Apollo program), also in America the private companies Virgin Galactic, Google LunarXprize, Astrobotic, Moon Express and Synergy Moon, in Russia the Yuri Gagarin Training Center of the City of Stars, in Kazakhstan the cosmodrome Roscomos (Baikonur), in French Guiana the Arianespace centre and in France EADS Space, CNRS, and ISAE, the European Space Agency (ESA), in Holland the ESTEC centre, in Germany PT Scientists, in Israel SpaceIL, in Japan Hakuto, in India TeamIndus, in the Atacama Desert in Chile the ESO observatories, Paranal and ALMA, IRAM in France, Mauna Kea in Hawaii, VLA in New Mexico, Carma in California, the Kjell Hendriksen, Eiscat and KHO aurora borealis observatory on Svalbard Island in Norway, and the MDRS Martian simulation base in the Red Desert of

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‘Sónar Calling’ campaign broadcasts music and messages to an alien super-Earth

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‘Sónar Calling’ campaign broadcasts music and messages to an alien super-Earth

The goal of the “Sonar Calling” binary-coded radio transmission is a planet referred to as GJ273 b. (METI Worldwide Illustration / Danielle Futselaar)

Scientists and artists have banded collectively to beam coded radio transmissions towards a star that has a doubtlessly liveable planet, simply 12.four light-years from Earth.

“Sónar Calling GJ273b” is the newest effort to speak with aliens, 43 years because the first try was made utilizing the 1,000-foot Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.

The “Sónar Calling” messages have been despatched on three successive days, Oct. 16-18, from the 32-meter EISCAT radio antenna in Tromsø, Norway, simply contained in the Arctic Circle. Every transmission was directed at peak energy of two megawatts towards a crimson dwarf star referred to as GJ273, or Luyten’s Star, within the constellation Canis Main.

Astronomers say Luyten’s Star harbors a planet that’s greater than twice as huge as Earth, in an orbit the place water may conceivably exist in liquid type. “Sónar Calling” goals to speak with any radio-savvy life types on that planet, known as GJ273 b.

The trouble is being undertaken by the organizers of Spain’s Sónar music competition in Barcelona, the Institute of House Research of Catalonia, and METI Worldwide, a San Francisco-based analysis group that focuses on the problem of messaging extraterrestrial intelligence.

The message incorporates a tutorial for its recipients, mentioned Douglas Vakoch, METI Worldwide’s president.

“METI’s mathematical and scientific tutorial for ‘Sónar Calling GJ273b’ contains modern options like a ‘cosmic clock’ that lets extraterrestrials verify that their understanding of time from our scientific message maps onto the passage of time they’ll observe all through the transmission itself,” Vakoch instructed GeekWire in an e-mail.

The tutorial tries to elucidate the notion of radio frequency by sending alerts as binary code at two frequencies, 929.zero MHz and 930.2 MHz. The code describes these frequencies in mathematical phrases.

EISCAT’s antenna broadcast the binary code thrice on every of the three days at a fee of 125 bits per second, including as much as a complete transmission time of 33 minutes, Vakoch mentioned. Every time, the cosmic-clock setting was modified to replicate the time of transmission.

The message additionally included 33 musical items, every lasting 10 seconds, which have been commissioned for the undertaking as a tribute to the Sónar competition. The contributors embrace sound artist Holly Herndon, French composer Jean-Michel Jarre and the experimental electronic-music duo Matmos.

Sónar’s organizers are opening the undertaking for public participation at present.

Vakoch mentioned an expanded tutorial might be transmitted to GJ273b subsequent April.

“We are going to flip the EISCAT transmitter right into a musical instrument, sending fundamental melodies by transmitting pulses at a collection of various radio frequencies that keep the identical form of intervals between each other that we see within the intervals between musical notes,” he mentioned.

It’d sound unusual to attempt sending messages to the aliens within the type of music, however there are precedents for that.

For instance, the “Golden File” that was positioned on NASA’s Voyager probes within the 1970s for the good thing about extraterrestrial passers-by included 27 musical alternatives from all over the world. And in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles tune titled “Throughout the Universe” towards Polaris to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the recording.

Are such transmissions detectable? And in that case, is it clever to ship them? That’s been a topic of debate amongst researchers specializing in the seek for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, for a few years.

Dan Wertheimer, chief scientist for the SETI program on the College of California at Berkeley, doesn’t assume sending messages to E.T. is a good suggestion.

“I feel the dangers outweigh the advantages,” he mentioned final month at Berkeley throughout a panel organized by the World Convention of Science Journalists. “You’re placing 7 billion folks in danger. We don’t know what’s on the market. … I feel it’s a small likelihood that E.T. goes to be violent, that they’re going to return grind up our planet for rubidium or one thing. However nonetheless, you’re placing 7 billion folks in danger.”

Seth Shostak, senior astronomer for the SETI Institute, mentioned that if the aliens are listening, they’ve in all probability already picked up the puny transmissions from us people.

“If you happen to actually assume there’s a possible of killing 7 billion folks as a result of the aliens get ticked off by listening to ‘I Love Lucy’ and ship their interstellar battlewagons right here to wipe us out, simply in a match of pique. … If you happen to actually assume that, then you definately higher flip off all radars — not for the weekend, not for this 12 months, you higher flip them off ceaselessly,” Shostak mentioned. “And to me, that doesn’t sound like a good suggestion.”

Assuming there’s somebody on the market listening to the sounds of “Sónar Calling GJ273b,” we’ll have 25 years to search out out in the event that they reply through radio. But when there are battlewagons, that’d nearly definitely take longer.

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[...] Stabilito l’obiettivo, gli esperti del METI si sono occupati di cosa trasmettere verso il pianeta e hanno pensato di usare la musica: in un certo senso una forma di comunicazione universale e che ha il vantaggio di basarsi sulla matematica e sulla sua oggettività. Insieme con gli organizzatori del festival di musica e tecnologia Sónar di Barcellona, hanno lavorato a un messaggio che fosse semplice da decodificare e comprendere. La base di partenza è stata quindi la matematica con un principio piuttosto semplice e che in teoria vale su qualsiasi pianeta nell’Universo: l’addizione. Hanno poi aggiunto livelli di difficoltà crescenti per illustrare i passaggi matematici che portano alla comprensione del suono e infine della musica.

Il set di messaggi è stato codificato utilizzando un sistema binario con due frequenze che si alternano, un approccio seguito da tempo da chi cerca di captare messaggi extraterrestri provenienti da luoghi remoti e inesplorati dello Spazio. Naturalmente il compito di interpretare le due frequenze, le loro differenze e il codice usato per comunicare spetta ai riceventi, cioè gli alieni, ma se si codifica il messaggio in modo da costruire a ogni passaggio un messaggio più articolato, li si può aiutare a capire che cosa si sta trasmettendo (o almeno è ciò che sperano i responsabili del METI).

Tra gli elementi contenuti in un messaggio c’è la nozione di tempo. Un impulso è stato fatto durare un secondo per comunicare il concetto di 1, a questo è stato fatto seguire un impulso lungo il doppio per far capire che vale 2 e che è il doppio del primo. La progressione prosegue per diverso tempo, nella speranza che in questo modo i riceventi possano comprendere quanto tempo è passato, fino a fargli capire che quell’1 iniziale altro non è che la base di misurazione di una variabile: il tempo.

Oltre a preparare il messaggio, quelli del METI hanno dovuto affrontare il problema di come trasmetterlo. Parlare con gli alieni non è semplice ed è piuttosto costoso, perché richiede l’utilizzo per diverse ore di un radiotelescopio: una gigantesca antenna che viene usata per rilevare le onde radio emesse dai corpi celesti, ma che può anche essere usata per inviare un proprio segnale. I radiotelescopi sono essenziali per la ricerca in astronomia e c’è una forte domanda per il loro utilizzo, con lunghe code di attesa per i ricercatori che vogliono puntarli verso un’area del cielo per studiare stelle, galassie e altri corpi celesti. Il tempo di utilizzo viene di solito assegnato alle ricerche con buone probabilità di portare a un risultato più concreto di: voglio farmi sentire dagli alieni e spero che mi rispondano.

Dopo avere consultato diversi centri, l’iniziativa del METI ha incuriosito i responsabili dell’EISCAT, un’associazione scientifica che possiede un radiotelescopio nei pressi di Tromsø, città della Norvegia settentrionale oltre il circolo polare artico. Al gruppo di lavoro è stato concesso l’uso del radiotelescopio per tre giorni, in modo da inviare il messaggio radio in direzione di GJ 273b. Per il prossimo aprile, METI ha in programma di tornare a Tromsø per inviare un nuovo messaggio, questa volta più complesso e basato su una melodia di diverse frequenze. Da dispositivo utilizzato, tra le altre cose, per studiare le aurore boreali, il radiotelescopio EISCAT si trasformerà in una sorta di strumento musicale interstellare nella speranza di ricevere risposta tra 25 anni, su come suona.

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