The planet Mars has several similarities with Earth, including extinct volcanoes, dry lake beds, and active dust storms, the last of which is governed by the Red Planet’s prevailing winds. However, ...

Discover the Windswept Sounds of Mars as InSight records the unusual sounds of Martian winds and vibrations on its surface. This image, taken December 7 by InSight's Instrument Deployment Camera, ...

Thanks to Perseverance being the first Mars rover to take two dedicated microphones to Mars we have not only had the first sounds recorded on Mars but the speed of sound on Mars has been calculated ...

The vast majority of space is thought to be silent, but not Mars. Last month, NASA scientists heard the Martian wind for the first time, and it sounded like this. (SOUNDBITE OF MARS WIND BLOWING) ...

Grab your headphones and prepare to be blown away. NASA just announced it has heard the first-ever "sounds" of wind on Mars. But if you're expecting howling, swooshes and crackles, you're in for a ...

The Perseverance rover captured the world’s imagination when it recorded sounds from the surface of Mars shortly after its arrival on the red planet in 2021. It recorded sounds of the Martian wind, as ...

Grab your headphones and prepare to be blown away. NASA just announced it has heard the first-ever “sounds” of wind on Mars. But if you’re expecting howling, swooshes and crackles, you’re in for a ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA first shared what Mars sounds like last year, using microphones placed on the ...

The sound of wind reveals details of Martian subsurface. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers have created the first-ever ...

In 1947, Chuck Yeager flew the X-1, an experimental rocket plane, over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California and broke the sound barrier for the first time. To pull it off, he had to fly his plane at ...

On Mars, the speed of sound depends on its pitch. All sound travels slower through Mars’ air compared with Earth’s. But the higher-pitched clacks of a laser zapping rocks travels slightly faster in ...

Less than two months after collecting its first sample of rocks from Mars, the Perseverance rover is collecting another incredible sample from the red planet: sound. The rover, which first arrived on ...