Are they sure they're not just hearing the Martian's at work in their underground tunnels?
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 …
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Wednesday 2nd October 2019 10:28 GMT 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.
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Friday 4th October 2019 10:42 GMT 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.