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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hears Something on Its Way to Mars – autoevolution
The Perseverance rover, the latest NASA hardware to be bagged and tagged for a trip to Mars, is a monument to space exploration firsts. Not only does it pack all…

That’s because the machine is equipped with a microphone, a first for Martian exploration hardware, meant to listen for the zaps of an instrument called SuperCam that should be deployed once on Mars. Thanks to it, the machine was however capable of recording something else while still in space.According to NASA, what you are about to hear was recorded in October (due to the distance of the rover and Mars from Earth, we should get used to such delays) “during an in-flight checkout of the camera and…
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