InSight Records the Sound of a Martian Impact

This video includes a seismogram and sonification of the signals recorded by NASA’s InSight Mars lander, which detected a giant meteoroid strike on December 24, 2021, the 1,094th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

InSight’s seismometer records seismic signals that are not in the range of human hearing. In order to make the signals audible, the data was sped up 100 times.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CNES/Imperial College London