Mars 2020 Microphone Testing at JPL

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Caption:

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is equipped with two microphones that, if all goes as planned, will capture the sounds during entry, descent, and landing, and sounds on the Martian surface — from listening to the gusts of Mars' winds, to the "zap" of SuperCam's laser .

This image depicts microphones under consideration the mission being tested at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2017. The microphones were placed inside a chamber with a playback speaker to record sounds within a simulated Martian environment.

Background Info:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California built and manages operations of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover for NASA.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/ .

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