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🔉Hear that? That’s the sound of Perseverance driving over Martian rocks. This is the first time we’ve captured sounds while driving on Mars.

Source | #Mars2020
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Another First: Perseverance Captures the Sounds of Driving on Mars

As the Perseverance rover began to make tracks on the surface of Mars, a sensitive microphone it carries scored a first: the bangs, pings, and rattles of the robot’s six wheels as they rolled over Martian terrain.

“A lot of people, when they see the images, don’t appreciate that the wheels are metal,” said Vandi Verma, a senior engineer and rover driver at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “When you’re driving with these wheels on rocks, it’s actually very noisy.”

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The Perseverance rover just released the debris shield that protected the Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, during landing.

So begins the process to safely deliver it to the surface of the planet. It's stowed sideways, folded up and locked in place, so there’s some reverse origami to do before it can set it down. First Perseverance will be off to the designated “helipad” a couple days drive from here.

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