Here's the Sound of Dust on Mars, Curious?

What does the sound of the dust demon on Mars look like? The United States Aeronautics and Space Body Tracker (NASA) Perseverance correctly turned on its microphone as the movement of red dust swirling passed right over it. Click here to hear a voice.

The footage is about 10 seconds long not only containing gusts that gust up to 40 kph, but gusts of several hundred dust particles challenge Perseverance. Several researchers melaunching the first audio of this kind on Tuesday (12/13/2022).

The sound made is really similar to the small whirlwind on Earth, although it is getting quieter. The thin atmosphere of Mars produces a slower sound and a less strong wind. The sound arrived and went quickly last year, so according to University of Toulouse researcher and study author Naomi Murdoch, audio is short.

At the same time, the navigation camera on the parked tracker captures the image. Meanwhile, the weather monitoring instrument collects data. "It was entirely caught off guard by Persy," said co-author German Martinez of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

Photos of the state of Mars have been spread for decades but have never heard the sound of being on the planet until now. This result is obtained from the movement of winds in the average range. Its height is at least 118 mtr. and 25 mtr. wide, moving at a speed of five mtr. per second. The microphone picks up 308 the roar of dust as the whirlwind passes.

Remember if the SuperCam microphone is turned on for less than 3 minutes each day, Murdoch explains, this invention is a fortune. The small whirlwind occurred on September 27, 2021. He predicts there is only one in 200 chance of capturing the audio.

Of the 84 minutes accumulated in the early years, there was only one whirlwind recording. A similar microphone from Perseverance gave the first sound from Mars after the tracker landed in February 2021. This is followed by the audio of the roving tracker and its accompaniment helicopter, Ingenuity.

This footage allowed some researchers to study Martian winds, atmospheric turbulence, and currently dust movements that had not had time to exist. The results show how valuable acoustic data is in space exploitation.