Posted on 02/22/21
| News Source: i24
'This is the first time we've ever been able to capture an event like the landing on Mars'
The US space agency NASA on Monday released the first audio from Mars, a faint crackling recording of wind captured by the Perseverance rover.
NASA also released the first video of the landing of the rover on the Red Planet.
A microphone did not work during the rover's descent to the surface but it was able to capture audio once it landed on Mars.
"What you hear there 10 seconds in is an actual wind gust on the surface of Mars picked up by the microphone and sent back to us here on Earth," said Dave Gruel, lead engineer for the camera and microphone system on Perseverance.
The high-definition video clip, lasting three minutes and 25 seconds, shows the heat shield protecting the rover dropping away and the deployment of a massive red-and-white parachute. It then shows the rover's touchdown in Mars' Jezero Crater in a cloud of dust. Read more at i24