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Listen To NASA's InSight at Work On Mars (Descripción)
Listen To NASA's InSight at Work On Mars (Descripción)
marsquakes. While it's found many, it has also detected other kinds of seismic
signals, including some produced by the spacecraft itself. That includes wind
gusts, InSight's robotic arm moving around and "dinks and donks," friction caused
by parts inside the seismometer moving against each other as the temperature
changes.
Put on your headphones and you can hear sonifications of this seismic "noise"
recorded on March 6, 2019, the 98th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Around 2
p.m. local Mars time, the spacecraft's arm was moving and snapping pictures with
its cameras, surveying InSight’s “workspace.”
This audio would be too faint for the human ear to heart it on Mars. It's been sped
up by 10 times and processed so you can hear the kinds of signals InSight sends
back for its scientists to study.