PALAOA

PALAOA - Transmitting live from the Ocean below the Antarctic Ice



Here's a link to an interesting website that will certainly enrich your cold winter nights, with some of the best ambient music I've ever heard.
Resuming, they've got a microphone under the ice somewhere in the Antarctic Ocean, transmitting live.

Providing an acoustic live stream of the Antarctic underwater soundscape is a formidable challange. After all, more than 15000 km lie between Antarctica and our institute in Germany. Underwater sound is recorded by means of two hydrophones by PALAOA, an autonomous, wind and solar powered observatory located on the Ekström ice shelf (Boebel et al., 2006). The data stream is transmitted via wireless LAN from PALAOA to the German Neumayer Base. From there, a permanent satellite link transmits the data to the AWI in Germany.

MP3 audio stream - should work on any computer right off the box, otherwise please check your browser or default multimedia player settings.
OGG-Vorbis audio stream - provides better sound quality at a lower bitrate
. For a list of compatible players, please check out www.vorbis.com.

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Aqui vai um link para um site que con certeza irá enriquecer as suas gélidas noites de inverno, com alguma da melhor música ambiente que alguma vez se fez.
Basicamente, colocaram um microfone debaixo do gelo algures no Oceano Antártico, constantemente a transmitir o que capta.

The Alfred Wegener Institute