Michael has always been fascinated by space, technology, dinosaurs, and the weirder mysteries of the universe. With a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing and several years experience under his belt, he joined New Atlas as a staff writer in 2016.
7 comments
dbenware
Is there any video that is in sync with the audio?
Don Martin
The third recording reminds me of Autechre
BlueOak
@dbenware, going to guess due to the scarcity of transmission bandwidth, they chose not to integrate sound with video since for most purposes, the audio is of secondary usefulness.
As with NASA “luck” that so often produces far more durable and more broadly interesting results than were designed in, they are extending the use of that Entry, Descent, and landing microphone beyond its design.
What an amazingly successful and reliable program Mars has been for NASA.
ljaques
Did they record similar terrain audio here on Terra for a comparison? Seems kinda useless otherwise.
1stClassOPP
That’s pretty cool!
aksdad
If they had thought to put a fuzzy windscreen on the mic (a "dead cat"j, they might have picked up something more interesting: https://youtu.be/NT5zcmLeRLo?t=3m7s
As with NASA “luck” that so often produces far more durable and more broadly interesting results than were designed in, they are extending the use of that Entry, Descent, and landing microphone beyond its design.
What an amazingly successful and reliable program Mars has been for NASA.