Making space images more accessible through sonification, this week on Planetary Radio.

I'm Sarah Alahmed of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our

solar system and beyond.

Space is for everyone, and we all deserve to experience space images.

Our guest this week, Kim Arcan, and her colleagues at Chandra Labs, have just released an

album of sonified data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

This collection of audio tracks, called Universal Harmonies, hopes to make space more accessible

to people with low or no vision.

The result is a beautiful and thought-provoking album of ambient and sometimes spooky audio.

This is also a huge week for us here at the Planetary Society.

Our new member community app is now live.

Amber Trujillo joins us to talk about the app's launch and our upcoming welcome festival

on March 18th.

Matt Kaplan will give us an update on the Boeing Starliner, and we'll close out our show

with the night sky and a chance to win a special LP version of Universal Harmonies in this

week's space trivia contest.

As many of you know, I was out sick last week as I recovered from COVID, but I'm back.

I'd like to give a special thanks to Matt Kaplan, the creator and former host of Planetary

Radio, who filled in for me while I was away, and thank you so much for all the wonderful

get-well messages you sent me.

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it.

Now it's time for some space news.

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