Perseverance recorded Sound of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during 4th flight

INGENUITY'S ROTOR/BLADE REVOLUTION SOUND CAUGHT BY NASA!

As if the flight itself wasn't enough, NASA Engineers and Scientists created a means of capturing what Ingenuity sounds like when the counter rotating rotors/blades are whirring at over 2500 RPMs... I urge you to watch this FULL SCREEN WITH SOUND UP!!! I just watched that on one of my 24 inch monitors and turned the sound up on my amplifier and it was awesome...listening to what is happening on a planet millions of miles away from us!!!

NASA's Comments:

'On May 7, 2021 NASA published Audio Sound and Video of Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars recorded by Perseverance Rover’s SuperCam laser microphone. For the first time, a spacecraft on another planet has recorded the sounds of a separate spacecraft.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its SuperCam microphone to listen to the Ingenuity helicopter on April 30, 2021 as it flew on Mars for the fourth time. With Perseverance parked 262 feet (80 meters) from the helicopter’s takeoff and landing spot, the mission wasn’t sure if the microphone would pick up any sound of the flight. Even during flight when the helicopter’s blades are spinning at 2,537 rpm, the sound is greatly muffled by the thin Martian atmosphere.

It is further obscured by Martian wind gusts during the initial moments of the flight. Listen closely, though, and the helicopter’s hum can be heard faintly above the sound of those winds."

Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Enjoy!!!
Kerry
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