Balfe answered some questions via email on the musical background of the game, sharing with me who some of his musical influences have been, and the process of working a composition into a finished masterpiece.

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Although the process of transferring a musical composition from a gleam in the composer's eye into a handwritten manuscript and, finally, a performance-ready score has come a long way from the days of copper-plate engraving, it's a process rife with the possibility of transmittal error.

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As well as helping to identify Martian meteorites, the analysis of these samples, whose composition is known beforehand, will also provide clues as to how the process of re-entry affects a meteorite's chemical make-up.

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The lack of data sets received on a regular basis, the lack of an industry standard format for data set composition, and the composition of data sets that were unformatted or too large for computers to process without crashing.

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