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Hear the sound of a meteor hitting Mars | Digital Trends Spanish

The sound of a meteor crashing in Mars has been captured by the lander NASA InSightmarking the first time seismic signals from a meteoroid impact have been detected on another planet.

The InSight lander was sent to Mars in 2018 to detect so-called “marsquakes,” in this case seismic activity that occurs below the surface of the Red Planet. But its highly sensitive detection tool also picked up a meteorite that crashed into the surface of Mars last year, and you can hear it happen in the video below.

Hear Meteoroid Striking Mars, Captured by NASA’s InSight Lander

A new paper published this week in Nature Geoscience reports on the impact, which took place on September 5, 2021.

In fact, there were three separate attacks, as the space rock exploded into three pieces when it hit the atmosphere of Mars.

According to the data, the meteoroids hit the Martian surface between 53 and 180 miles (85 and 290 kilometers) from InSight’s location.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which oversees the InSight mission, said audio from one of the strikes sounds like a “bloop” due to “a peculiar atmospheric effect heard when low-end sounds arrive before sharp sounds”.

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