NASA Releases First Audio From Mars, Video Of Landing

Washington:

The US area company NASA on Monday launched the primary audio from Mars, a faint crackling recording of wind captured by the Perseverance rover.

NASA additionally launched the primary video of the touchdown of the rover on the Crimson Planet.

Your front-row seat to my Mars touchdown is right here. Watch how we did it.#CountdownToMarspic.twitter.com/Avv13dSVmQ

— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 22, 2021

A microphone didn’t work through the rover’s descent to the floor nevertheless it was capable of seize audio as soon as it landed on Mars.

Now that you’ve got seen Mars, hear it. Seize some headphones and hearken to the primary sounds captured by certainly one of my microphones. ????https://t.co/JswvAWC2IP#CountdownToMars

— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 22, 2021

NASA engineers performed a brief recording.

“What you hear there 10 seconds in is an precise wind gust on the floor of Mars picked up by the microphone and despatched again to us right here on Earth,” mentioned Dave Gruel, lead engineer for the digicam and microphone system on Perseverance.

The high-definition video clip, lasting three minutes and 25 seconds, reveals the warmth defend defending the rover dropping away and the deployment of a large red-and-white parachute.

It then reveals the rover’s landing in Mars’ Jezero Crater in a cloud of mud.

“That is the primary time we have ever been capable of seize an occasion just like the touchdown on Mars,” mentioned Michael Watkins, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

“These are actually superb movies,” Watkins mentioned. “We bingewatched all of them weekend.”

Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s affiliate administrator for science, mentioned the video of Perseverance’s descent is “the closest you may get to touchdown on Mars with out placing on a stress swimsuit.”

Jessica Samuels, Perseverance’s floor mission supervisor, mentioned the rover was working as anticipated up to now.

“I’m joyful to report that Perseverance is wholesome and is constant with actions as we’ve got been planning them,” Samuels mentioned.

She mentioned the workforce was getting ready for a flight by the rover’s small helicopter.

“The workforce continues to be evaluating,” she mentioned. “We have now not locked in a web site but.”

Perseverance was launched on July 30, 2020 and landed on the floor of Mars on Thursday.

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