Nasa's Perseverance Captures Martian Dust Devil Sounds

On Tuesday, NASA announced that its Martian rover Perseverance captured the sound of the dust devil for the first time.

The rover witnessed the movement of the dust on the surface of Mars, however, it was swept right over the device which made the rover's microphone to be turned on.

The first version of the audio had the sounds of the microphone pinging off.

The speed of the dust devil walls reached 40 kilometers per hour, according to planetary scientist Naomi Murdoch.

NASA said in a blogpost on capturing the sound of the Martian dust: "Recently a combination of instruments on the Perseverance rover has experienced a dust devil in a new way. The SuperCam Microphone recorded the sound of a dust devil while the navigation camera snapped pictures and the MEDA environmental station measured the drop in pressure as the dust devil passed over rover. The recording even catches the sound of dust grains hitting the rover."

It added: "Many a day we would see a dust devil in the distance. If we saw one nearby, we would run to get in its path, but we were rarely, if ever, successful. The devils were mysterious – they seemed to start randomly, and their characteristics, such as the height, size, and duration, also seemed random."

Last year, the rover successfully recorded the first audio clip for the sound of the winds on Mars.