
What do other planets sound like?
Twenty Thousand Hertz
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The Future of Sound Theory
There's going to be a microphone on the next Mars rover. We expect that it'll hear a few different things. The sound as the rover drives across the surface for example will be transmitted both through the atmosphere and through the body of the rover itself. They're so accustomed on Earth to hearing sound associated with what we see. But in true outer space, no one can hear a Titanic supernova explosion or a hurtling asteroid smash into the moon. Or even hear you scream. How rare is sound in the known universe? It's pretty rare. Places like the moon and mercury and these rocky bodies with no atmospheres are would be similar to being in space. There would not be much
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