NASA’s InSight “Hears” the Sound of Mars (media telecon + visuals)

Original air date: Dec. 7, 2018 at 12:30 p.m. ET (9:30 a.m. PT, 1630 UTC)

The teleconference panelists will be:
Bruce Banerdt, InSight Principal Investigator, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Thomas Pike, Short Period Seismometer Science Lead, Imperial College, London
Don Banfield, Auxiliary Payload Sensor Subsystem (APSS) Science Lead, Cornell University
Lori Glaze, Acting Director of Planetary Science, NASA HQ

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[jpendersen]

Listening to the wind on Mars.... I love it.

[Pyriphlegeton]

7:10 - the raw recording.
9:26 - higher pitch.

[NASAJPL]

Until our video trim is rendered by the YouTube servers, please scrub forward to 15:33 for the start of the news teleconference.

[kaleemullah]

7:14 Listening to the wind on Mars Feels like a gentle breeze <3 can't wait to be on Mars :P

[jonathanspears]

Absolutely stunning and amazing. What a time to be a live right now! This is wind from another planet I hope people realize what they just witnessed!

[markharrison]

Congratulations NASA/JPL/staff and crew of these amazing agencies, will be watching and look forwards to future data and information.

[WadesUnderworld]

That was so freaking cool. Through the headphones that was surreal.

[kthfox]

I just listened to martian wind. I'm crying.

[climbto]

Did she really hand it over to "Dr. Bruce Banner"? @18:34

[AstroGigi]

that sound is a big gift from Insight <3

[TheMorpheus]

These sounds will definitely help me sleep at night.

[Leathurkatt]

To get seismic data to better map the interior of Mars (or any other terrestrial planet or moon), I would stack a series of landers in a launch payload that uppon deployment would sit down on the ground rather than being elevated off the ground on legs, and underneath they would drill a seismometer into the crust and leave the lander to directly shield the sensor from atmospheric disturbance. These landers would be placed in groups of three individually spaced a kilometer or two apart in a triangle, with each group spaced a few hundred kilometers apart, each group (triad) forming the points of a larger triangle. Then a fourth group would be placed on the directly opposite side of Mars from the center of the main triangle of the other three groups. Then a seismic charge would be deliberately detonated in the center of that triangle, leaving each group to record the seismic response through the planet and send the data back via orbiting satellites to Earth, which we could then use to better map the interior of Mars. This could be used to map the interior of any planet or moon in the same way we use seismometers here on Earth.

Yes, this might be an expensive endeavour, but if we could fine-tune and streamline the system properly (thus reducing the cost), it would be very useful in gathering valuable data on the interior of any non-gaseous body in the solar system.

[bhavanaverma]

Beautiful white noises 😍 felt like I was sleeping on mars for a while

[serdildenizbaran]

Dünyanın en gelişmiş medeniyeti, insanlığın yaratmış olduğu en önemli oluşum insanın gelişiminde öncü olmaya devam ediyor

[hardtarget]

Nice! looking forward for more insight. We are about to discover biggest mystery ever.

[jaspooh]

they should send a drone on the next landing. If controlling it is a challenge, maybe they can program it to just fly around the lander a few meters out to take videos and programmed to return to the lander afterwards.

[Cam-dzin]

Think of all the emptiness between here and this rover, crazy

[mimidhof]

Can I produce a remix with the martian wind sound and call it "Martian wind"...?
Seriously, is this wind sound copyrighted...?

[earlvincentcleopas]

Life on mars lander of the sources rise on the lands

[MohammadReghabi]

Thank you NASA people. I am sure is not too late that you hard working scientists are going to send a human to the Mars.