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NASA's InSight Lander Captures First 'Sounds' of Wind On Mars (nbcnews.com)
NASA's InSight lander, which touched down on Mars less than two weeks ago, has recorded vibrations -- low-pitched, guttural rumblings -- caused by wind blowing across the science instruments on the spacecraft's deck. NBC News reports: Unaltered, these vibrations are barely audible, because they were recorded at a frequency of 50 hertz, at the low end of what the human ear can detect, according to Thomas Pike, the lead scientist for InSight's Short Period Seismometer, one of two instruments that picked up the subtle movements. NASA also released a sample of the same audio file that was shifted up about six octaves, to within a range audible to humans. That recording -- which at times sounds like a regular blustery day on Earth and other times has the muted, hollow quality reminiscent of being underwater -- would essentially be what a person would hear if they were sitting on the InSight lander on Mars, said Don Banfield, the science lead for InSight's air pressure sensor and a planetary scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. NASA believes the wind in the recordings was blowing at 10-15 miles per hour from northwest to southeast.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the Mars Polar Lander was the only Mars lander to have an actual microphone included in the instrumentation - and it was lost when it smashed into the surface.
We have audio from Titan, but not Mars. Seems a bit odd.
It's waves in a gas, that's real sound, not figurative.
What is this sung to the tune of?
Been done to death.... only funny to a 5 year old.
So amazing
-nt
Sounds like wind. Honestly what did they expect it to sound like? This is a gas passing over a pressure measuring instrument.
Granted it's cool data from another frikken planet. Still its just the sound of a gas in motion over an instrument measuring atmospheric pressure.
Sorry, no amount of Marxist machinations will convince me these charges are legit. He-said-he-said garbage proves nothing.
Low C, which is two octaves below middle C and the low note on a cello is about 65 Hz with modern tuning of A=440Hz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Young ears can hear in the range of 20Hz - 20 KHz and there are instruments with a lower range than the cello so I don't think it's correct to say that adjusting this up six octaves moves it into the range audible by human ears. The video comments says 100x speedup so that would be 5000Hz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Perhaps it would be better to say that it was sped up so that it would sound more like earth wind?
What is this sung to the tune of?
Baby It's Sandy Outside
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It's still funnier than the homophobic slurs about Trump that infest all the stories here now.