The Perseverance rover looked at his deck on February 20, 2021, and saved his arm.
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Since she spectacular landing on Mars in February, NASA’s Next Generation Perseverance Rover Delivers A Grade contents. We heard the wind blowing on Mars, listened to it shoot rocks with a laser and watched dusty demons swirl across the Martian surface.
It was fascinating.
Now NASA has given us another drop: a 16-minute sound grab of Perseverance, literally persevering, that travels across the surface of Mars.
According to NASA, this is 16 minutes of raw, unfiltered sound from Mars itself. You can hear the wheels roaring over the rocky surface, the squeaking of the suspension, next to a strange scratching sound that, according to NASA stuff, ‘electromagnetic interference from one of the Rover’s electronic boxes or interactions between the Rover mobility system and Mars surface can be. “
Whatever it is, it just adds to the haunting atmosphere. We sent robots to a distant planet and these are sounds from that planet. Game.
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