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Mike Wehner
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Pew pew pew! Space and lasers go together like peanut butter and jelly, at least when it comes to science fiction. Surprisingly, the reality isn't all that far off. Sure, they don't really make "pew" noises, and, no, you can't see a laser beam flying through space like in Star Wars, but still, scientists have used lasers for various things in space for a while now. NASA's Perseverance rover is the latest high-tech piece of machinery to use lasers outside of Earth, and NASA even managed to record what it sounds like.
In a new post by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the group reveals that the Perseverance rover has fired up its "SuperCam" instrument to begin some early work. The rover sent back a trio of audio files — one of which we heard yesterday and included the soothing sounds of the wind across the surface of the planet. Now we get to hear what it sounds like to fire a laser on Mars as well.
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NASA’s new rover shot lasers at a Mars rock and recorded the audio originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 16:12:55 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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