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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover beams back first sounds ever recorded on another planet By Sophie Lewis NASA rover sends video and audio from Mars NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars less than one week ago, has beamed back the first-ever audio recordings from the surface of the red planet. NASA released the audio clips Monday, along with never-before-seen video footage of the rover landing last Thursday, and the most sophisticated images yet taken of Mars. Along with 25 onboard cameras, the rover also carries two microphones. One failed to work during the rover'...

Mars. >> liquid water is a critical distinction. we've known about ice on mars since 2008 when nasa's phoenix lander found it and would not about seasonal running water since 2011 thanks to nasa's mars reconnaissance orbiter. but a standing stable body of water, that is something else entirely. >> all the discoveries in the past have been there is water ice, there is ice here, ice there. maybe there is transient droplets forming like dew on the legs of robotic landers, but this is potentially the mother load, real liquid water in large amounts underneath the south polar ice cap of mars. >> tha...