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NASA releases first audio from Mars, video of landing

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/reuters/02/23/nasa.jpg"/><figcaption>The deck of NASA&#x27;s Perseverance Mars rover, featuring the PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry), one of the instruments on its stowed arm, is seen in an image taken by the rover&#x27;s navigation cameras on Mars February 20, 2021. Picture taken February 20, 2021.<em> NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via Reuters</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>WASHINGTON - The US space agency NASA on Monday released the first audio from Mars, a faint crackling recording of wind captured by the Perseverance rover.</p><p>NASA also released the first video of the landing of the rover on the Red Planet.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/02/19/21/perseverance-rover-lands-on-mars-but-theres-much-we-already-know-from-martian-meteorites-on-earth">Perseverance rover lands on Mars, but there&#x27;s much we already know from Martian meteorites on Earth</a></li></ul><p>A microphone did not work during the rover&#x27;s descent to the surface but it was able to capture audio once it landed on Mars.</p><p>NASA engineers played a short recording.</p><p>&quot;What you hear there 10 seconds in is an actual wind gust on the surface of Mars picked up by the microphone and sent back to us here on Earth,&quot; said Dave Gruel, lead engineer for the camera and microphone system on Perseverance.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Your front-row seat to my Mars landing is here. Watch how we did it.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CountdownToMars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CountdownToMars</a> <a href="https://t.co/Avv13dSVmQ">pic.twitter.com/Avv13dSVmQ</a></p>— NASA&#x27;s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1363929492138254340?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2021</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>The high-definition video clip, lasting three minutes and 25 seconds, shows the heat shield protecting the rover dropping away and the deployment of a massive red-and-white parachute.</p><p>It then shows the rover&#x27;s touchdown in Mars&#x27; Jezero Crater in a cloud of dust.</p><p>&quot;This is the first time we&#x27;ve ever been able to capture an event like the landing on Mars,&quot; said Michael Watkins, director of NASA&#x27;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.</p><p>&quot;These are really amazing videos,&quot; Watkins said. &quot;We bingewatched them all weekend.&quot;</p><p>Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA&#x27;s associate administrator for science, said the video of Perseverance&#x27;s descent is &quot;the closest you can get to landing on Mars without putting on a pressure suit.&quot;</p><p>Jessica Samuels, Perseverance&#x27;s surface mission manager, said the rover was operating as expected so far.</p><p>&quot;I am happy to report that Perseverance is healthy and is continuing with activities as we have been planning them,&quot; Samuels said.</p><p>She said the team was preparing for a flight by the rover&#x27;s small helicopter.</p><p>&quot;The team is still evaluating,&quot; she said. &quot;We have not locked in a site yet.&quot;</p><p>Perseverance was launched on July 30, 2020 and landed on the surface of Mars on Thursday.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q40jpPR0yss?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>The US space agency NASA on Monday released the first audio from Mars, a faint crackling recording of wind captured by the Perseverance rover.<br /> </p>

The US space agency NASA on Monday released the first audio from Mars, a faint crackling recording of wind captured by the Perseverance rover.