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NASA (MARS) First sounds recorded from another planet
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Technically not the first time we've gotten recorded sounds from other planets, but this is pretty neat.
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Neptune
Jupiter
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Sounds like wind. If it weren't for the presence of manmade equipment rumbling it'd sound even more banal.
Is this real? It seems really fake, the one in the OP sounds way more believable
It's an audio conversion of the magnetic field produced by the planet.
We landed something on Mars 10 days ago and this is the first I'm hearing of it. It's a real shame news like this doesn't get more coverage.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/bruce-betts/2016/20160705-listen-up-microphones-on-mars.html
Turns out it's been tried a couple of times before but one crashed and another was never turned on for technical reasons. The Mars 2020 mission will try again.
I've wondered this for a long time too. Found a nice article that covers this:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/bruce-betts/2016/20160705-listen-up-microphones-on-mars.html
Turns out it's been tried a couple of times before but one crashed and another was never turned on for technical reasons. The Mars 2020 mission will try again.
Unnerving. Holy fuck this is eerie. Not what I expected to hear at all, not sure what exactly I was expecting mind you but . . .
Man this is so cool! I love when we get awesome things like this! It's always an incredible experience learning about other planets!
You think that's weird? Check out Saturn.
i'm not sure about the Nuptune one, but i assume it's the same as the Jupiter one, which isn't actually a recording:
via https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/features/halloween_sounds.html
That is really cool, a reminder that it is a real, complex world, like Earth.
It's real, but it's not really sound, but low frequency electromagnetic waves converted to sound, that is why it sounds unusual.
Sometimes I get bummed out realizing I'm just barely going to miss stuff like this. I wish I were born like 200 years from now. For thousands of years, human development crawled forward. Then it skyrocketed (lol) in the 20th century. So I can see this amazing stuff on the horizon, but I'm probably going to miss it all.
At least I have video games.
It's cool because it makes it feel more real, so to speak. None of us will likely travel to mars so sound along with visuals goes a long way.
