NASA Uploads The Sounds Of Mars To SoundCloud

NASA released a mixtape of what the surface of Mars sounds like to SoundCloud.

The tracks featured recordings the agency took on the red planet using its InSight rover's SEIS, which was designed to listen for marsquakes.

The sounds are caused by marsquakes, wind, the movement of the rover's arm, the friction within the seismometer sensor and others. Using the data, scientist can learn more about the planet, as well as its interior to understand more about Mars' deep inner structure.

The sounds NASA recorded can be listened at https://soundcloud.com/nasa

According to NASA:

"The spacecraft’s exquisitely sensitive seismometer, called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), can pick up vibrations as subtle as a breeze. The instrument was provided by the French space agency, Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), and its partners."

InSight, which stands for the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a mission which uses a robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of the planet Mars.

The rover was manufactured by Lockheed Martin, and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The mission was launched on 5 May 2018, by launching the rover on an Atlas V-401 rocket. The rover successfully landed at Elysium Planitia on Mars on 26 November 2018, after traveling 483 million km from Earth.