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One of two Mars InSight's 7-foot (2.2 meter) wide solar panels was imaged by the lander's Instrument Deployment Camera, which is fixed to the elbow of its robotic arm.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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NASA’s InSight
(Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport)
lander touched down on the planet Mars last month, November 26, 2018 and has
captured the first ever recorded
sounds on the Red Planet.
The sound is the wind on Mars and is described as “a
haunting low rumble caused by vibrations from the wind, estimated to blowing
between 10 to 15 mph on Dec. 1, from northwest to southeast.”
The Mars 2020 Rover
will “will continue the agency’s efforts to search for evidence of life and
prepare for human arrival.”
Find more details at NASA
InSight Lander 'Hears' Martian Winds https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-insight-lander-hears-martian-winds
The data were sped up by a factor of 100, shortening the duration of the recording and shifting it up in frequency 100 times (a little more than six octaves).
Listen to raw, unprocessed data from the seismometer on NASA's InSight spacecraft of vibrations caused by wind moving over the solar panels on Mars. A subwoofer or earphones are needed to hear this clip.
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