Listen to the Mars wind blow in these 1st sounds from the Perseverance rover

[Judi Lynn]

By Mike Wall 16 hours ago

You can hear mechanical rover whirs and a Martian breeze.



NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover acquired this image on Feb. 22, 2021, using its Left Navigation Camera. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

These sounds are truly otherworldly.

NASA's Perseverance rover recorded 60 seconds of Martian sound on Saturday (Feb. 20), just two days after its picture-perfect touchdown inside Jezero Crater. The newly released file, which features mechanical whirring from the rover and the rustle of a Red Planet breeze, is the first true audio ever captured on the surface of Mars.

"Really neat — overwhelming, if you will," Dave Gruel, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, said during a news conference on Monday (Feb. 22). The audio was unveiled during that briefing, as was jaw-dropping video Perseverance captured during its Feb. 18 entry, descent and landing (EDL).

Gruel is in charge of Perseverance's EDL camera system, which includes an off-the-shelf commercial mic built by Danish company DPA Microphones. That instrument was supposed to capture sound during the rover's "seven minutes of terror" touchdown but did not do so, for reasons that Gruel and his colleagues are investigating. The microphone came to life soon enough, however, recording the historic sound snippet on Saturday.

More:
https://www.space.com/perseverance-rover-first-mars-sounds-audio?utm_source=notification

( I turned my sound up really high, my laptop caught the sound as really soft, like a zephyr, but after struggling to hear it, I did.)

[Alpeduez21]

1. Thanks

I saw the article on Yahoo but the sound wasn't as good as this. I knew my DUers would've gotten a good version. I really appreciate your effort in posting this.

[Duppers]

2. 2nd thanks.