NASA sent to Mars in 2018 to study the depths of the planet. InSight spacecraft, recently signed a first on Mars. The spacecraft has begun detecting seismic and acoustic waves from an asteroid impact on the Red Planet for the first time. In addition, NASA also shared the audio recording of the moment when the meteorite entered the Martian atmosphere, broke apart and fell.

In research published in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists They found that a total of four space rocks hit Mars. shared. The spacecraft was able to record the seismic waves from these impacts, thanks to the seismometer. The rocks were determined to fall 85-290 kilometers from the spacecraft.

The holes drilled by the meteorite on the surface of Mars were also viewed from space:

With the detection of the meteorite falling to Mars, the Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft was pointed in orbit over Mars. The spacecraft detected three different points on the surface with the ‘Context Camera’ hardware, which provided black-and-white images. These points were then focused with the higher-resolution High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on the spacecraft. These images are also from NASA. in the video below with the sounds of the crash shared:

The sound of the meteor falling on Mars (50 seconds for the sound, 85 seconds for the image of the formed craters)

The sound is fine, but why does the explosion sound like something out of a cartoon?

NASA also shared information that explains why the explosion sound is strangely only heard as a “blop”:

“After sunset, the atmosphere retains some of the heat that has accumulated during the day. Sound waves travel at different speeds depending on their frequency in this heated atmosphere. As a result, low-frequency sounds precede high-frequency sounds. An observer close to the impact will hear an ‘explosion’, while someone miles away will be the first to hear bass sounds, creating a ‘blop’ sound.”