The ghosts of Mars.
The news comes after NASA's InSight Mars lander picked up eerie sounds of the Martian surface using the lander's seismometer and air pressure sensor, which was hailed as theBut now, rather than relying on air pressure readings as a proxy, Perseverance has captured the real thing: a "commercial off-the-shelf" microphone,
, specifically for picking up sounds during entry, descent, and landing . Perseverance's second microphone is attached to its SuperCam instrument, a boom on the rover's head that can identify minerals and rock compositions.
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