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Hear Mars rover Perseverance whir as it cruises toward the Red Planet – Space.com
The audio shows that Perseverance’s entry, descent and landing microphone is working well.
NASA’s next Mars rover isn’t keeping quiet during its long trek to the Red Planet.
A microphone aboard the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance
, which launched on July 30 and will touch down on Feb. 18, 2021, captured the whirring sound made by the car-sized robot’s “heat-rejection fluid pump,” a newly released NASA audio file reveals.
That microphone was installed to record the sounds of Perseverance’s entry, descent and landing (EDL), the “seven minutes of terror
” sequence that will end with a rocket-powered…
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