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-The first person to land with a microphone
It seems that soon we will experience the’Mars experience’ in a whole new way.
NASA’s Landing on Mars Rover Perseverance will land on the surface of Mars at the dawn of February 19, Korean time, and perform a series of missions.
Among the missions are pioneering ground missions demonstrating a number of advanced exploration techniques, including finding traces of ancient life, collecting and storing samples for future transport to Earth, flying helicopters over Mars, and more.
In addition, the two microphones are equipped in the Perseverance, which will open up new horizons for Mars exploration. In the past, probes have seen, touched, tasted, and smelled Mars using their own robotic method, but no probe has yet captured the’sound of Mars’.
“Hearing the sound of another planet is another way we can feel familiar,” said Nina Lanza, head of space-planet exploration at the Los Alamos National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy in New Mexico. Lanza, a member of the Supercam science team equipped with a microphone from Perseverance, added that listening to the sound of Mars “will add a dimension to making Mars a real place for us.”
Percivience, the core of the Mars 2020 Mission, which was invested in $2.7 billion (about KRW 3 trillion), however, is not the first NASA rover to bring audio equipment to the Red Planet. NASA’s Mas Polar Lander, which arrived in Antarctica on Mars in 1999, was equipped with a microphone, and the 2008 Phoenix lander had a built-in microphone on the descent camera.
However, Mars Paula Lander failed to land, and Phoenix also did not send any acoustic information. However, Phoenix landed safely in May 2008 and discovered ice beneath Mars’ surface during a successful resin mission.
Perseverance will record the sound of the ‘7 Minutes of Horror’ touchdown process that Phoenix could not. On the 19th, at Entry-Descent-Landing (EDL), this 6-wheeled rover hit the Mars atmosphere at a speed of 20,000 km/h, then unfolded a supersonic parachute and operated a rocket-driven sky crane to crater as an example of the ancient Mars delta of 45 km in diameter. Slowly descend to the floor.
If everything goes as planned, the audio captured with Perservance’s EDL mic and related videos shot with seven EDL cameras will bring us surprising news. Qiocity, the predecessor of Perseverance, captured amazing images from EDL in August 2012, but the audio was missing.
“This will be another amazing opportunity to truly shake people’s hearts,” said musician Janeson Achilles Mezilis, a member of the EDL microphone team. Mezilis, who was hired as a consultant for the project, said, “If you get audio and video and put them together, you’ll encounter something that no one has ever experienced,” he added. “Videos from other planets with sound will be really cool. .
Kwang-Sik Lee Columnist [email protected]
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