NASA captures sounds of Mars wind
The sound of the wind on Mars has been captured for the first time by Nasa’s InSight lander, which touched down on the red planet 10 days ago.
The agency’s jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) released audio clips of the alien wind on Friday evening.
InSight collected the low-frequency rumblings during its first week of operations, the Guardian informs.
The wind is estimated to be blowing at between 10 and 15mph. These are the first sounds from Mars that are detectable by human ears, according to the researchers.
“Capturing this audio was an unplanned treat,” said Bruce Banerdt, the InSight principal investigator at Nasa’s lab in Pasadena, California. “But one of the things our mission is dedicated to is measuring motion on Mars and naturally that includes motion caused by sound waves.”