What Perseverance Rover Recordings Say About Sound On Mars
One of the challenges of recording sounds on Mars is that because the atmosphere is so sparse there, scientists were not sure if it would be possible to record sounds at all. The atmosphere consists mainly of carbon dioxide, which also tends to absorb sound waves. So the fact that the microphones in Perseverance were able to record Ingenuity from a distance of 80 meters was a surprise and a pleasure....