The Perseverance rover took a look at the deck and the arm stowed away on February 20, 2021.
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Since the spectacular landing on Mars in FebruaryDelivered NASA’s next-gen Perseverance rover A-class contentWe’ve heard it wind blows on Mars, listened to it blow up rocks with a laser and watched stormy dust devils whirl across the surface of Mars
It’s been fascinating.
Now NASA has given us one more drop: a 16-minute sound clip of Persistence, literally persistent, riding across the surface of Mars.
According to NASA, this is 16 minutes of raw unfiltered audio from Mars itself. You can hear the wheels rattle across the rocky surface, the screeching of the suspension, along with a strange scratching noise that NASA thinks is “ electromagnetic interference from one of the rover’s electronics boxes or interactions between the rover’s mobility system and the surface of the rover. Mars’ can be. “
Whatever it is, it just adds the haunting vibe. We have sent robots to a distant planet and these are sounds from that planet. Wild.
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