MARS now has its own two-minute song – and it actually sounds alright.

Space scientists created the track with an image of a Martian sunrise, using a technique called "sonification".

2 Nasa used this image of a Martian sunrise to create the Mars song

Sonification involves turning data into sound, and can be applied to almost anything.

In this case, astronomers at Anglia Ruskin University used a photograph of a sunrise on Mars.

The music marks a milestone, because the picture used was the 5,000th Martian sunrise captured by Nasa's Opportunity rover.

It's only right, then, that the song was created using hi-tech means.

2 An Earth day lasts 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds, while a Martian day lasts 24 hours, 37 minutes and 22 seconds Credit: Getty - Contributor

Scientists started off by scanning the sunrise image from left to right, tracking each individual pixel, according to Science Daily.

Data on the brightness, colour information and terrain elevation was collected.

Next, sonification algorithms were used to assign each element of the photo with "a specific pitch and melody".

"The quiet, slow harmonies are a consequence of the dark background," the report reads.

"The brighter, higher pitched sounds towards the middle of the piece are created by the sonification of the bright sun disk."

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Scientists Dr Domenico Vicinanza, of Anglia Ruskin University, and Dr Genevieve Williams, of the University of Exeter, uploaded the clip online, which you can listen to at the top of this page.

But they'll also be showing it off at a "world premiere" on November 13, at the Supercomputing Conference 2018 in Dallas, Texas.

The plan is to play the piece using both conventional speakers and vibrational transducers.

This will let the audience "feel the vibrations with their hands", and let them enjoy "a first-person experience of a sunrise on Mars".

How long does it take to get to Mars? It's not that short of a trip... There's an immense distance between Earth and Mars, which means any trip to the red planet will take a very long time

It's also made more complicated by the fact that the distance is constantly changing as the two planets rotate around the sun

The closest that the Earth and Mars would ever be is a distance of 33.9million miles – that's 9,800 times the distance between London and New York

That's really rare though: the more useful distance is the average, which is 140million miles

Scientists on Earth have already launched a whole bunch of spacecraft to (or near) Mars, so we have a rough idea of how long it takes with current technology

Historically, the trip has taken anywhere from 128 to 333 days - admittedly a huge length of time for humans to be on board a cramped spacecraft.

Dr Vicinanza said: "We are absolutely thrilled about presenting this work about such a fascinating planet.

"Image sonification is a really flexible technique to explore science and it can be used in several domains, from studying certain characteristics of planet surfaces and atmospheres, to analysing weather changes or detecting volcanic eruptions.

"In health science, it can provide scientists with new methods to analyse the occurrence of certain shapes and colours, which is particularly useful in image diagnostics."

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The Opportunity rover is a robot that was launched into space on July 7, 2003.

It landed on Mars in January the next year and has been collecting data for Nasa ever since.

But disaster struck in June 2018 when a dust storm forced the robot into hibernation.

The atmosphere has since cleared up, by Nasa has been unable to reactivate the robot yet. Efforts continue.

What do you think of the first Martian music hit? Let us know in the comments!

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