Hear sounds from Mars captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover
The mission has recorded five hours of audio since landing in February.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has recorded up to five hours of sounds on the Mars, giving engineers a sense of how the Red Planet sounds different from Earth.
NASA now has a Perseverance rover website filling up with Martian audio, ranging from wind gusts to the sounds of rover driving as it seeks spots to hunt for the signs of life on the Red Planet. In March, we even heard its laser “snapping” (sadly, no pew-pew noise was evident.)
“It’s like you’re really standing there,” Baptiste Chide, a planetary scientist who studies data from the Perseverance microphones, said in a statement from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).