Thanks to all those tax dollars, humans can now hear the faint sounds of earthquakes on Mars

NASA has released audio clips of marsquake recordings taken by its InSight lander currently resident about on the Red Planet. The seismometer, known as the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure or SEIS for short, sniffs out marsquakes and uses the rumblings to reveal the planet’s inner structure. InSight has detected over …

[Blockchain commentard]

Are they sure they're not just hearing the Martian's at work in their underground tunnels?

[Anonymous Custard]

Nah, it's the Voice of the Mysterons doing a sound check...

[Captain Scarlet]

We accidently left the mic on after Curry Night.

Captain Black makes a mean Vindaloo but his Popadoms are a bit greasy!

[teknopaul]

Might we hear them methane farts that the rovers wiffed?

[Spherical Cow]

When you are In The Night Garden on Mars you can hear the Dinky Donk, which is the Martian equivalent of Earth's Pinky Ponk and Ninky Nonk. https://www.google.com/search?q=ninky+nonk+pinky+ponk

[Colin Bull 1]

Not likely

More likely to be the baby soup dragon in the volcanic soup well

[spold]

Re: Not likely

Yup - Clanger farts

[Oengus]

Earthquakes?

I am wondering how you hear earthquakes on Mars. Surley they would be Marsquakes...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Earthquakes?

What if the instrumentation on InSight really is so sensitive that it can pick up earthquakes on Mars? :)

[Anonymous Custard]

Re: Earthquakes?

In space, no-one can hear you rumble?

[Oengus]

Re: Earthquakes?

So they setup an Interferometer on Mars so sensitive that it can measure the gravity waves created by earthquakes...

[Twanky]

making the signal ring...

'Earth’s smoother texture means sound waves from seismic activity can propagate through the rock, whereas on Mars they are more likely to scatter, making the signal ring.'

This does not make sense to me. Shirley if something is cracked it does not ring as well as something that is not cracked. Bells, cups and wheels on trains spring to mind.

[teknopaul]

Re: making the signal ring...

Agreed, it typical to "scatter" audio sources with diffusers in recording studios makes them ring less.

[Tom 7]

Re: making the signal ring...

Earths surface is largely made from cooled lava and is quite good at conducting sound. Mars has had the shit beaten out of it over the years and not had tectonics to fix it and so is far more cracked than the earth.

For now.

[spold]

Dinky Donk

apparently can refer to Therapy Donkeys & Miniature Mediterranean Donkeys.

Love to see someone take their therapy donkey on a plane.

As long as they are not sitting next to me.

Are there Therapy Asses? (Vicar)

[karlkarl]

I wish my UK taxes went to useful things like this :/

[M. Poolman]

Some of it was funded by UK

There's quite an interesting Sky at Night program on BBC iPlayer about it. The sensors were developed in Oxford.

[MrKrotos]

Martian farts?

How would someone know the difference?

[Daedalus]

Apologies to NASA

It were just our Ivy flushin' t'lavatory.

[William Higinbotham]

Voice heard

Greetings Earthlings - It's Marvin the Martian.

[Oengus]

Re: Voice heard

Now where did I put that Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?

[sitta_europea]

That's the first time I've ever hear sounds from antoher planet.

Awesome.

"... bang the rocks together, guys!"

[Aussie Doc]

Just WOW!

Hats off to all the boffins involved. They probably have these ------->

I don't know if it's just because I'm an old fart in my 60's but I got a real buzz out of listening to that.

So much tech has happened within my reasonably short lifetime and this sort of thing still makes me go "Ooooo."

Hope I never grow out of it.