Gentle wind and a robotic hum might not sound like much to celebrate but those were the first sounds ever recorded on Mars taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover after landing on another world.
NASA released the first few recordings taken by the rover that landed on the red planet Thursday following a 300-million-mile journey.
For the first time NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory equipped a Martian robot with several microphones. [TRENDING: Car flies off I-4 in Orlando | Meet bone cancer survivor who will be youngest American in space | United engine blows apart during flight] Dave Gruel, Perseverance entry, descent and landing camera lead, explained that it became extra important to capture the simple sounds of Mars where no human