The Perseverance rover recorded the sounds of its laser on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover, which has recently been roaming the vast expanses of Mars, has recorded the sounds of its laser installation for the first time. This is stated on the official page of the US National Aerospace Agency on Twitter. Watch the video below.

NASA scientists said they received the first data from the SuperCam instrument installed aboard the new Martian rover. “The recordings from the instrument were processed at the French space agency’s operations center in Toulouse – in particular, recordings of the sound of a laser operating on another planet,” the press release said.

Representatives of the Perseverance mission noted that sound waves propagate in the rarefied atmosphere of the Red Planet, but they sound completely different from on Earth. For example, if terrestrial birds lived on the Red Planet, then you would hardly be able to identify them by singing.

On the recordings that the rover sent to Earth, you can hear the clicks of the laser. The laser device, which generated the sounds, was aimed at a rock, which was located three meters from the device. Scientists explained that by the peculiarities of the sound of the laser, one can obtain information about the physical structure of certain materials – for example, using a laser, one can determine the relative hardness of rocks.

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