Mars is a quiet and peaceful place, not much goes on unless you believe in aliens and U.F.Os. The planet is like a library, you will be quiet even if you shout. But why is it so peaceful? Here’s the result of a quiet scientific discovery that promotes the understanding of nature’s wonder:
Communicating on Mars, the Red Planet is found to be extremely hard. A part of the cause may be because Mars sometimes is extremely cold, and your numb mouth might be making weird sounds. But the other part is because the small atmosphere (which is 100 times thinner than Earth’s) of mostly carbon dioxide and sound waves don’t go around CO2s giant molecules too well, making sound slower and quieter. Because of this, someone talking to you on Mars would be as quiet as if they were speaking 200 ft away.
Baptist Chide, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, studied some sound tapes created on the Red Planet with his colleagues. These recordings had been found by a microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover, which had been mapping the planet since February 2021.
What the rover sent to earth wasn’t the noises of events on Mars. What was recorded were sounds created when the robot shot a laser at tiny rocks near it. That collision of the laser zap and the rock made a noise like thunder, but softer. Chide listened and examined five hours of sounds taped like this with his team to confirm communication ways and understand the solar system as never before.
Communicating on Mars, the Red Planet is found to be extremely hard. A part of the cause may be because Mars sometimes is extremely cold, and your numb mouth might be making weird sounds. But the other part is because the small atmosphere (which is 100 times thinner than Earth’s) of mostly carbon dioxide and sound waves don’t go around CO2s giant molecules too well, making sound slower and quieter. Because of this, someone talking to you on Mars would be as quiet as if they were speaking 200 ft away.
Baptist Chide, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, studied some sound tapes created on the Red Planet with his colleagues. These recordings had been found by a microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover, which had been mapping the planet since February 2021.
What the rover sent to earth wasn’t the noises of events on Mars. What was recorded were sounds created when the robot shot a laser at tiny rocks near it. That collision of the laser zap and the rock made a noise like thunder, but softer. Chide listened and examined five hours of sounds taped like this with his team to confirm communication ways and understand the solar system as never before.
