Awesome, thanks!
Are there sounds on Mars? NASA launches audio athenaeum
Audiophiles at NASA have published more than 60 samples of historical space artefacts to the administration's Soundcloud account. The athenaeum opens up the opportunity to listen to some of space exploration's idiosyncratic oddities, including quips and musings between Houston and astronauts, pings from the distant Kepler, or …
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Thursday 23rd October 2014 16:52 GMT cray74
Re: No real sounds from Mars ?
"How hard would it have been to build a microphone into one of those rovers ?"
The Phoenix lander had a microphone and wasn't able to record anything, so the plan to include a microphone in Curiosity's MARDI (its descent camera) was dropped. There's been some debate about whether Phoenix's microphone was working (it might've been frozen).
The Mars Polar Lander also had a microphone, but both the microphone and lander were eaten by the Great Galactic Ghoul. All files of the sounds of digestion were ordered sealed by then-President Clinton to avoid terrifying the public with the probe's robotic death cries.
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Thursday 23rd October 2014 17:54 GMT EL Vark
grrr...
What an arse crap piece of so and so the Soundcloud website be. It's one of those "keep loading new data as you scroll down unto infinity" pages with no discernible menu structure or index. Sad that NASA has hooked up with such a deranged monkey-poor design for such a valuable library.
I'll lean back and listen to a loop of Titan's hiss from my copy of the Huygens probe transmission which came directly from the agency years back instead of stumbling blindly around some half-baked third-party site in the hope of finding something worthwhile. You Soundclod (sic) twats should all be ashamed of yourselves.