NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends Back First-Ever Sounds Recorded On Mars Surface
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The first sounds captured on Mars are music to NASA’s ears, and you can hear them now.
Upon reaching the surface of the Red Planet, the Perseverance Rover beamed back data fascinating even for the standards of a Mars rover built with the most number of cameras across its kind. Earlier, it shared a 360-degree look at the landing site in incredible 4K detail, and it has since delivered some audio from the Martian surface.
NASA has released two audio clips of the Perseverance rover’s first sounds from the Red Planet. The first includes noise from the rover itself, while the second is an edited version that focalizes on the Martian breeze.
Quite notably, NASA pointed out that it wasn’t the rover’s microphone that had picked up the audio, but a “commercial off-the-shelf device” that amazingly “survived the highly dynamic descent to the surface and obtained sounds from Jezero Crater on February 20.”
“For those who wonder how you land on Mars – or why it is so difficult – or how cool it would be to do so – you need look no further,” reassured acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk. “Perseverance is just getting started, and already has provided some of the most iconic visuals in space exploration history. It reinforces the remarkable level of engineering and precision that is required to build and fly a vehicle to the Red Planet.”
The Perseverance rover will be a central tool in NASA’s discovery of ancient microbial life on Mars and will help the space agency prepare for human exploration on the Red Planet.
[via LADbible, cover image via Shutterstock]
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