What does it sound like on Mars?

[HowlingUlf]

I wonder if they packed any microphones to record at least the thunderstorms?

Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation

and they just landed safely for those who missed that!

[Split]

Yep, well done Curiosity, an astonishing achievement

[Shinta215]

@HowlingUlf

I wonder if they packed any microphones to record at least the thunderstorms?

I would imagine that it’d be quieter than here on Earth, due to the thinner atmosphere.

[curteye]

Does that mean that sound would actually propagate more slowly thru
a thinner medium?

Would sound vibrations take a longer amount of time to get from point A to point B?

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[Split]

@Shinta215

@HowlingUlf

I wonder if they packed any microphones to record at least the thunderstorms?

I would imagine that it’d be quieter than here on Earth, due to the thinner atmosphere.

Also there was no traffic, now there are two cars zooming about the place, one with a plutonium-238 battery.

[Split]

@curteye

Does that mean that sound would actually propagate more slowly thru
a thinner medium?

Would sound vibrations take a longer amount of time to get from point A to point B?

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It depends on the type of gas, density and temperature. Temperatures vary wildly on mars and the atmosphere is mainly Carbon Dioxide.

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/sound.html

[Sherz]

I reckon it would sound exactly like my tinnitus …

[HowlingUlf]

@Sherz

I reckon it would sound exactly like my tinnitus …

Turn around 180° and you have phase inverted the dang noise!

[swamptone]

If it doesn’t sound like this … I ain’t going!

Mars Needs Guitars! - The Hoodoo Gurus [Sydney, Australia] - 1985

[twilightsong]

Nice blast from the Past there Swampy