What does a meteor impact on Mars sound like? - NASA study

• Published date: 20 September 2022
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

A recording of the impact was released on NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's YouTube channel, and the unique sound is available for everyone to appreciate

In the new paper, published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Nature Geoscience, NASA detailed the impact of the meteorites hitting Mars. The first meteor entered Mars' atmosphere on September 5, 2021, and split into three shards that each left a crater.

NASA then sent their reconnaissance orbiter to the area in order to confirm the exact location of the impact craters. after the orbiter had located the spot of the impacts, it sent several pictures of the craters.

The pictures were made possible because of the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which provided NASA with color close-up shots of the craters.

Ingrid Dauber, a Mars impacts specialist and one of the co-authors of the paper said: "After three years of InSight waiting to detect an impact, those craters looked beautiful."

"After three years of InSight waiting to detect an impact, those craters looked beautiful."

Ingrid Dauber

"Impacts are the clocks of the solar system," said the paper's lead author, Raphael Garcia. "We need to know the impact rate today to estimate the age of different surfaces," he added.

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