The oceans are calling 🐚 For #WorldOceansDay, enjoy the symphonic sounds of the sea. Data sonfications like these are often created as auditory companions to data visualizations, giving us a different perspective to data. Take in a moment of Zen as you take a symphonic tour of the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Phytoplankton carry the ocean’s food web on their backs. The single-celled algae use chlorophyll and other light-harvesting pigments to carry out photosynthesis, much like plants on land. Chlorophyll in the water changes the way it reflects and absorbs sunlight. This allows scientists to map the amount and location of phytoplankton, giving valuable insights into the health of the ocean, mapped here in this sonification. Using spectral ocean reflectance data, captured from a series of rolling 32-day average global composites from @NASAEarth’s Aqua-MODIS satellite. The averages were computed every 8 days, making about 48 images per year. Credit: NASA'...