NASA’s New Recording of a Martian Dust Devil On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission was launched to the moon. The spacecraft, commanded by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, landed on the moon’s surface on July 20, 1969. After landing on the moon, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to walk on its surface. The Apollo 11 mission was a great success. The spacecraft had landed safely on the moon and Armstrong and Aldrin had walked on its surface. However, there was one problem: There was dust everywhere! The astronauts had to clean up all of the dust before they could continue their journey back to Earth. They used a vacuum cleaner to clean up all of the dust from their spacecraft. This new recording from NASA shows how dusty it was on July 20, 1969 when they landed on the moon. This recording is called “The Dust Devil.”
Nearly every rover that’s been to Mars has encountered a dust devil, but the Perseverance rover has recorded footage of what a dust devil sounds like on the red planet for the very first time. The rover is equipped with a microphone, and the dust devil itself passed directly over the rover on September 27th, 2021, allowing it to catch and record its sound for mankind to see.
The result? You can check it out by yourself right here. The microphone captured the sound of Martian wind and the sound of dust grains while they hit the rover.
The rover also captured some images as the dust devil passed by, although they don’t show much. It also captured measurements of the atmospheric pressure dropping steeply while this happened.
New developments have shown us several aspects of how things look on Mars. Recently, we saw footage of how clouds on Mars look like. It’s pretty exciting footage that shows that while the conditions for life on both Earth and Mars might be wildly different, we actually have a lot in common with our red neighbor.
Source: NASA
