La arrival of InSight on Mars It will give us more joys than we imagined. And it is that thanks to him today you will be able to hear something that never before had it been possible to capture until now: how does the seeing sound on mars. Prepared? Turn up the volume.
Captured for the first time on Mars
We haven't even had two weeks InSight on Mars And it seems like an eternity ago. On November 26, the aforementioned probe touched Martian soil after six months of travel and 484.773.006 kilometers tours. She did it surrounded by great expectation because the landing maneuver was not without danger. The requirement to execute some movements millimeter and a long history of failed arrivals to the planet were in the air and kept all of us who followed the mission in suspense.
Finally InSight arrived successfully to the soil of the red planet and we could all breathe easy, already rubbing our hands together waiting to see what InSight would discover for us there. just landing we received a photo than the probe could see, but the document that we have today is much more valuable: it allows us to hear first How does the wind sound on Mars?
La NASA has been in charge of putting the audio into circulation to the delight of all the curious. According to this body, the sensors of the probe (a seismograph and an air pressure sensor) were able on December 1 to capture the sound effect of the vibrations of the wind (which bounced off the solar panels), estimating that it moved at a speed of 5 to 7 meters per second and in a northwest to southeast direction.
For the first time, we have heard the winds of another world.
Learn more about the #SoundsofMars sit by @NASAInSight: https://t.co/PFHRE1ncRH pic.twitter.com/I8BtjnnAdN- NASA Solar System (@NASASolarSystem) December 7th 2018
You can listen to the audio in the tweet that you have above as well as in the video that you have below -more complete. As you will be able to read (it is in English) the sound is difficult to hear (min. 0:35), so it is recommended to use auriculares and a subwoofer. In a second pass, the sample is go up two octaves to make it easier to appreciate on mobile phones and laptops.
El air pressure sensor, as we said, it was also able to capture the sound of the wind (in a different way than the seismograph did), and in the video it is also shown, explaining that it has been passed through a tool to alter its frequency and that you know that it is capable to hear it better.
What will InSight have to discover for us next? We are looking forward to being surprised.