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What Does Mars Sound Like?
Nassa spacecraft first landed on mars with the viking one in 19 75. Now, after almost 50 years and dozens of missions, the perseverance rover has recorded the first sounds ever captured on the surface of the red planet. In the first raw audio captured from mars, most of what you can hear is just the humming of the perseverances rover. But with a little audio filtering nassau dialed back those rover sounds, and the wind from the planet comes through a little stronger. And for the first time, a spacecraft on another planet recorded the sounds of a separate spacecraft when perseverance used one of its microphones to listen to the ingenuity helicopter during its fourth flight on mars.
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