The Martian sounds recorded by the Perseverance rover, so far

Snap. Whoosh. Ping.

The Mars Perseverance rover, the first robot to record Martian sounds with a real microphone, has already picked up some eerie, extraterrestrial recordings. The sounds, available below, include the rover's metallic wheels rumbling over the desert ground, a laser zapping a rock 30 times, and the blowing Martian wind.

"On one hand they sound very mundane," Bruce Betts, a scientist at The Planetary Society, an organization that promotes the exploration of space, told Mashable. "But when you realize you’re listening to sounds on another planet, of our own machine moving on the surface, and a laser vaporing a little bit of rock, suddenly these become profound and awe-inspiring." Read more...

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