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Sound of a dust devil on Mars recorded for first time
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe sound of a dust devil on Mars was recorded for the first time as the eye of the whirlwind swept over the top of NASA’s Perseverance rover, a new study says.
“We hit the jackpot” when the rover’s microphone picked up the noise made by the dust devil overhead, says the study’s lead author Naomi Murdoch, a planetary researcher at France’s ISAE-SUPAERO space research institute.
The researchers hope the recording will help to better understand the weather and climate on Mars, including how its arid surface and thin atmosphere may once have supported life.
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