NASA Unveils Latest Images, Sound From Mars Perseverance Rover

This set of sounds from the surface of Mars were recorded by the microphone on the side of NASA's Perseverance Rover on Feb. 20, 2021.

In the first set, sounds from the rover itself dominate. In the second set, the sound was filtered to make sounds from Mars more audible.

You can hear a little wind in the second audio.

This is the first time a Mars rover has been equipped with a microphone.

NASA equipped the spacecraft with a record 25 cameras and two microphones, many of which were turned on during last week's descent.

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[randybobandy]

One minute people are thinking the government has advanced technology that the public doesn’t have and the next minute they think that a rover landing on Mars is fake lol

[FreedomsLife]

The real deal is going to be when they pop the drone off and get some aerial footage.

[steviefirst]

I'm waiting for some giant spider or some huge scorpion to come thru he landscape nearby ...lol

[matthewviramontes]

Yea it's a pretty cool spot. I stopped there a few years back on my way to Vegas.

[MariaPerez-nunq]

Wow Amazing to see thank you for sharing this amazing moment in 2021

[macadonards]

Damn Howard Wolowitz is really a great engineer

[steviefirst]

Now watch they go exploring and find a fence

[liuyusi]

Sorry, not getting it - what’s the big deal? It’s still a dead planet with no liquid water and not habitable to human - the same as last time we checked

[shuggabizkit]

Once again, ain’t shit there. All the money they spend getting there could solve many problems we have on this rock.

[patrickmichael]

Maybe they are looking for Sound Of Freedom, the global child trafficking movie everyone is talking about.

[InMeUcU]

10 seconds in Alien breaks wind on Mars. 👾💨

[rickjames]

On Google it says there always dust storms 60 miles per hour and rover looks clean and floor looks 2 clean

[pambrunner]

ITS RED ROCK AND DIRT! WHAT NEXT A DUST STORM

[globalmagicnation]

“ you can see the surface almost looks earth like, and can see the mountains in the back”. ... yeah. I would say it’s more earth like then you can imagine. I would even be willing to say it is earth.. 😂😂 just curious. How does that rover send video files from that far away? Are there repeaters floating around out there? Didn’t Mars used to be red? Hmmm. Another zinger...

[mindteaserjunction]

2 BILLION dollars for pictures of dirt and rocks. Wow, what a bargain! That money could have bailed out every small business closed by covid. BRILLIANT!

[ChrisS-noft]

The backlighting is so uneven. Who was the cinematographer? You would think if they want to make us believe we’ve actually been in space, theyd be more convincing lol

[zachjohnson]

It's weird how the sun looks bigger in the sky than it does on earth but we are closer...maybe its just the camera

[acedriver]

And still ufo video and pics are blurry 😆🤣😂
Why arent we going to the moon again?

[dog]

It looks like they are in an ancient lake.

[veker.k]

This is just a scam so rip off a huge load of countries wealth into rich people's pocket